Philips Blu-ray Disc player BDP5320 BDP5320/F7 Manuale Utente

An electrical signal that directly represents sound. 
Compare this to digital audio which can be an electrical 
signal, but is an indirect representation of sound. See also 
“Digital Audio”.

The width of a TV screen relative to its height. 
Conventional TVs are 4:3 (in other words, the TV screen is 
almost square); widescreen models are 16:9 (the TV screen 
is almost twice as wide as it is high).

AVCHD is a new format for high definition video camcorders 
which can record and play high-resolution HD images.

BD-Live is a BD-video (BD-ROM version 2 Profile 2.0) which 
contains new functions (e.g. Internet connection), in 
addition to the BONUSVIEW function.

Blockbuster is online service which you can rental or 
purchase movies and TV episodes streamed over the 
Internet.

Blu-ray Disc is a next generation optical video disc which is 
capable of storing much more data than a conventional 
DVD. The large capacity makes it possible to benefit from 
the features such as high-definition videos, multi-channel 
surround sounds, interactive menus and so on.

Just as a book is split up into several chapters, a title on a 
BD-video or DVD-video is usually divided into chapters. 
See also “Title”.

CinemaNow is online service which you can rental or 
purchase movies and TV episodes streamed over the 
internet.

Each signal of luminance (Y) and component (P

B

/C

B

, P

R

/C

R

) 

is independent to output so that you can experience 
picture color as it is.
Also, due to compatibility with progressive video (525p/
480p), you can experience higher-density picture than that 
in interlace (525i/480i).

An indirect representation of sound by numbers. During 
recording, the sound is measured at discrete intervals 
(44,100 times a second for CD audio) by an analog-to-
digital converter, generating a stream of numbers. On 
playback, a digital-to-analog converter generates an 
analog signal based on these numbers. See also “Sampling 
Frequency” and “Analog Audio”.

DivX® is a codec (compression/decompression) that can 
compress pictures to a very small amount of data. The 
software can compress video data from almost any 
devices to the size that can be sent on the Internet without 
compromising visual quality of the pictures.

A server which translates Internet domain names into IP 
addresses.

The system to compress digital sound developed by Dolby 
Laboratories. It offers you sound of stereo (2ch) or multi-
channel audio.

Dolby Digital Plus is the next generation digital audio 
compression technology developed as an extension to 
Dolby Digital. Blu-ray Disc supports 7.1 multi-channel 
surround sound output.

Dolby TrueHD is a lossless coding technology developed 
for next generation optical discs. Blu-ray Disc supports     
7.1 multi-channel surround sound output.

DTS® is a multi channel surround sound system. You can 
enjoy movie dynamic and realistic sound like movie 
theater. DTS surround sound technologies were 
developed by DTS, Inc.

DTS-HD® is a lossless coding technology developed as an 
extension of the original DTS Coherent Acoustics format. 
Blu-ray Disc supports 7.1 multi-channel surround sound 
output.