Technicolor - Thomson DTH720 manual DVD discs you can play, Region code numbers of DVD discs

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Playing a disc

DVD discs you can play

•Digital video discs - 12 cm, single or double sided, single or dual layer. DVDs are high density optical discs on which high quality picture and audio are recorded by means of digital signals.

Region code numbers of DVD discs

Discs that can be played on your player are ones marked with area code 2 (Europe, Middle East, Republic of South Africa and Japan). Ensure that any DVD disc you want to load bears area code 2.The ALL logo printed on some discs means that the disc can be played on any DVD player.

Note: for your information: the other areas are: - 1: USA, Canada - 3:

Southeast Asia,Taiwan - 4: Central America, South America, Australia,

Mexico, New Zealand - 5: Russian federation, Africa (except Egypt and

Rep. of South Africa), India, Pakistan - 6: China.

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DVD+Rewritable

•Audio DVD - Audio DVD, the latest optical disc format for audio, is recorded on the same disc medium as video DVD. It consists in an optical DVD on which 5.1 multichannel digital sound (corresponding to 6 channels) is recorded, together with very high quality stereo sound.

Note : unlike Video DVDs,Audio DVDs do not have a Region code.You can therefore buy Audio DVDs anywhere in the world.

•DVD Plus - This is an audio DVD containing stereo tracks which are compatible with CD players.

•DVD+/-R,DVD+/-RW- Most DVD-R and DVD+R (one recording only), and DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs (rewritable). Recordings on DVD-R and DVD-RW discs must be made in Video DVD mode. Recordings on DVD+RW discs must be made in accordance with the specifications for the 4.7 Gb capacity DVD+RW disc format. Compatibility is dependent on which DVD writer, writer software and discs are used.

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