Sony 3-876-055-11(1) User Manual

A system that plays back sound on 6 speakers, 

3 at the front (left, right and center) and 2 at 

the rear (right and left) with an additional 

low-pass subwoofer counted as a 0.1 channel for 

frequencies of 120 Hz or lower.

A high definition digital video camera format 

used to record an HD (high definition) signal 

using the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format.

An audio encoding (compression) system 

developed by Dolby Laboratories Inc.

Sound compression technology developed by 

Dolby Laboratories Inc. which compresses audio 

efficiently while preserving high sound quality. 

Sounds are compressed effectively with high 

quality sound, and it enables producing 5.1ch 

surround sound.

The condition of a media in which files are 

divided into pieces scattered around the media. 

You may not save your images correctly. You 

can solve the condition by performing [MEDIA 

FORMAT] (p. 57).

JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts 

Group, a still image data compression (data 

capacity reduction) standard. Your camcorder 

records still images in JPEG format.

MPEG stands for Moving Picture Experts Group, 

the group of standards for the coding (image 

compression) of video (movie) and audio. 

There are MPEG1 and MPEG2 formats. Your 

camcorder records movies with SD (standard 

definition) image quality in MPEG2 format.

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The latest image coding format standardized 

jointly by two international standardization 

organizations, the ISO-IEC and the ITU-T, in 

2003. Compared with the conventional MPEG2 

format, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 has more than 

twice the efficiency. Your camcorder employs 

MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 to encode high definition 

movies.

Reduced-size images which enable you to 

view many images at the same time. [VISUAL 

INDEX], [ INDEX] and [ INDEX] use a 

thumbnail display system.

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