Philips dvdr 3400 User Manual

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Analogue:  Sound that has not been turned 
into numbers. Analogue sound varies, while 
digital sound has specifi c numerical values. 
These sockets send audio through two 
channels, the left and right.
Aspect ratio: The ratio of vertical and 
horizontal sizes of a displayed image. The 
horizontal vs. vertical ratio of conventional 
TVs. is 4:3, and that of wide-screens is 16:9.
AUDIO OUT Sockets: Red and white 
sockets on the back of the system that send 
audio to another system (TV, Stereo, etc).
Chapter: Sections of a picture or a music 
piece on a DVD that are smaller than titles. 
A title is composed of several chapters. Each 
chapter is assigned a chapter number 
enabling you to locate the chapter you want.
Digital:  Sound that has been converted into
numerical values. Digital sound is available 
when you use the DIGITAL AUDIO OUT 
COAXIAL. These sockets send audio 
through multiple channels, instead of just 
two channels as analogue does.
Disc menu:  A screen display prepared for 
allowing selection of images, sounds, 
subtitles, multi-angles, etc recorded on a 
DVD.
DivX:  The DivX code is a patent pending, 
MPEG-4 based video compression 
technology, developed by DivXNetworks 
Inc., that can shrink digital video to sizes 
small enough to be transported over the 
internet, while maintaining high visual quality.
Dolby Digital:  A surround sound system 
developed by Dolby Laboratories containing 
up to six channels of digital audio (front left 
and right, surround left and right, centre and 
subwoofer).
DTS:  Digital Theatre Systems. This is a 
surround sound system, but it is different 
from Dolby Digital. The formats were 
developed by different companies.
HDMI:  High-Defi nition Multimedia 
Interface (HDMI) is a high-speed digital 
interface that can transmit uncompressed 
high defi nition video and digital multichannel 
audio.  It delivers perfect picture and sound 
quality, completely free from noise.  HDMI is 
fully backward-compatible with DVI.
As required by the HDMI standard, 
connecting to HDMI or DVI products 
without HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital 
Content Protection) will result in no Video 
or Audio output. 
Index Picture Screen:  A screen that gives 
an overview of a recorded DVD disc.  An 
Index Picture represents each recording.
JPEG: A very common digital still picture 
format. A still-picture data compression 
system proposed by the Joint Photographic 
Expert Group, which features small decrease 
in image quality in spite of its high 
compression ratio.
MP3: A fi le format with a sound data 
compression system. “MP3” is the 
abbreviation of Motion Picture Experts 
Group 1 (or MPEG-1) Audio Layer 3. By 
using the MP3 format, one CD-R or CD-RW 
can contain about 10 times more data then a 
regular CD.
MPEG: Motion Picture Experts Group.  A
collection of compression systems for digital 
audio and video.
Multichannel: DVDs are formatted to have 
each sound track constitute one sound fi eld.
Multichannel refers to a structure of sound 
tracks having three or more channels.
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