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Additional Information
A system of navigating a Super VCD / Video CD
through onscreen menus recorded onto the disc.
Especially good for discs that you would normally
not watch from beginning to end all at once-
karaoke discs, for example.
PBC (Playback Control)
(Super VCD/ Video CD only)
These associate discs and players with particular
areas of the world. This unit will only play discs that
have compatible region codes. You can find the
region code of your unit by looking on the rear
panel. Some discs are compatible with more than
one region (or all regions).
Regions (DVD only)
Also called non-interlaced video, this method of
displaying a picture updates all the lines in one
pass, resulting in one pass, resulting in a more
stable, flicker-free image than interlaced video (for
a given scanning rate). See also interlaced video.
Progressive scan video
The rate at which sound is measured to be turned
into digital audio data. The higher the rate, the
better the sound quality, but the more digital
information is generated. Standard CD audio has a
sampling frequency of 44.1kHz, which means
44,100 samples (measurements) per second. See
also Digital audio.
Sampling frequency
A collection of chapters on a DVD-Video disc.
Title (DVD-Video only)
Audio CDs and Super Video CDs / Video CDs
discs all use tracks to divide up the content of a
disc. The DVD-Video equivalent is called a
chapter.
Track
The most common system of encoding digital audio,
found on CDs and DAT. Excellent quality, but
requires a lot of data compared to formats such as
Dolby Digital. For compatibility with digital audio
recorders (CD, MD and DAT) and AV amplifiers with
digital inputs. See also Digital audio.
PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)
