Ayre DX-5, Owner'S Manual

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With the advent of Blu-ray, the additional storage
space has allowed for lossless audio compression
schemes. While the compression ratio is typically
five times lower than lossy compression, lossless
compression allows for the exact reproduction of the
original PCM signal.
Compressed Video Full-motion video requires a monumental amount
of information to be stored. All digital consumer
formats compress the video signal to allow it to fit
on the disc. Luckily, digital video lends itself well to
compression and both DVD and Blu-ray can provide
superb picture quality using various video
compression schemes.
D-ILA Digital-Imaging Light Amplifier is a type of LCOS
video display technology developed by JVC. This is
one example of a
Fixed Pixel display.
DLP Digital Light Processing is the name of Texas
Instruments’ movable micro-mirror technology used
in video displays. This is one example of a
Fixed
Pixel display.
Dolby Digital A Compressed Audio format developed by Dolby Labs,
this is found on virtually all DVDs. For higher
quality audio on Blu-ray discs Dolby Labs has
developed Dolby True HD, a
Lossless Audio
compression format.
DTS A Compressed Audio format developed by Digital
Theater Systems. A DTS soundtrack is found on
some DVDs, and in generally considered to sound
better than the Dolby Digital soundtrack, in part
due to the higher data rates used (less compression).
For higher quality audio on Blu-ray discs DTS has
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