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GLOSSARY
Aspect Ratio:
This is a description of the width of a video image in
relation to its height. A conventional video screen is four units wide
for every three units of height, making it almost square. Wide-aspect
ratio video displays are 16 units wide for every nine units of height,
more like the screen in a movie theater. The program material on a
video disc may be recorded in either format and, in addition, you may
configure the BDP 10 to play back in either format, depending on the
features recorded on a disc.
Chapter:
Blu-ray Disc and DVD programs are divided into chapters
and titles. Chapters are the subsections programmed into a single title
on a disc. Chapters may be compared to the individual tracks on an
audio CD. Press the Disc Menu Button to see a listing of the chapters
on a disc.
Component Video:
This form of video signal eliminates many of the
artifacts of traditional composite video signals by splitting the signal
into a separate luminance channel (the “Y” signal channel) and two-
color difference signals (the “Pr” and “Pb” signal channels). With a
component video connection, you will see greater picture resolution
and eliminate many picture imperfections, such as the moiré patterns
often seen on check-patterned cloth.
HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection):
HDCP is the
specification for protecting digitally encoded content from unauthorized
copying when it is transmitted from a video source to a display using
HDMI or DVI connections. To take advantage of the high-resolution
output of the BDP 10 via its HDMI output, your display must be HDCP-
compliant. All displays with HDMI inputs are HDCP-compliant, but not
all DVI-equipped displays are.
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface):
HDMI is a form of
communication between an audio/video source and a video display or
audio/video receiver. It is capable of passing digital audio and high-
definition digital video using a single cable. With HDMI, the BDP 10 is
capable of outputting high-resolution (720p, 1080i or 1080p) video
and 7.1-channel PCM, Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio digital
audio, with the convenience of a single cable connection.
JPEG Files:
JPEG stands for the Joint Photographic Experts Group,
which developed a standard for compressing still images, such as
photographs. JPEG files may be created on a personal computer
by importing images from a digital camera, or scanning printed
photographs. These files may be burned onto a compact disc or stored
on a USB device. The BDP 10 is capable of recognizing JPEG files
and enabling you to view them on your video screen.
MP3 Files:
MP3 is an audio compression format that was developed
by the Moving Picture Experts Group as an adjunct to the MPEG-1
video compression format. The main benefit of MP3 is that it reduces
the size of audio files considerably, depending on the amount of
compression selected during the encoding process, enabling you to
store many more songs on one compact disc than in the standard
audio CD format. The BDP 10 is capable of playing MP3 files stored
on a disc or stored on a USB device.
Multiple Angle:
Blu-ray Disc and DVD media have the capability
to show up to four different views of the same scene in a program.
When a disc is encoded with multiple-angle information, pressing the
Angle Button will enable you to switch between these different views.
Few discs take advantage of this capability and, when they do, the
multiple-angle technology will only be present for short periods of time.
Producers will usually insert an icon or graphic into the picture to alert
you to the availability of multiple-angle scenes.
Resume:
The Stop Button on the BDP 10 works differently from that
on a CD player. On a traditional CD player, when you press the Stop
Button, the unit does just that – it stops playback; then, the next time
you press the Play Button, the disc starts from the beginning.
With the BDP 10, however, you have two options when playing most
discs. Pressing the Stop Button once will stop the playback, but it
actually puts the unit in the Resume mode. This means that when you
press the Play Button the next time, the disc will resume playback
from the point on the disc where the Stop Button was pressed. This
is helpful if you are watching a movie and must interrupt your viewing
session but wish to pick up where you left off.
Pressing the Stop Button twice will stop the machine in a traditional
manner and, when the disc is played again, it will start from the
beginning.
Title:
For Blu-ray Disc or DVD media, a title is defined as an entire
movie or program. There may be as many chapters within a title as
the producers decide to include. Most discs include only one title,
but some may have more than one, to give you a “Double Feature”
presentation or to include other special features.
Video Output Resolution:
This is the scan rate of the video signal.
Analog composite and S-video signals are displayed at a maximum
rate of “576i/480i”. The “576/480” represents the number of
horizontal scan lines, and the “i” stands for “interlaced”. With interlaced
scanning, half the lines in a frame are displayed at a time: e.g., all of
the even-numbered rows, then all of the odd-numbered rows.
The greater capacity of component video allows for higher scan rates,
and for progressive scanning. Unlike interlaced scanning, progressive-
scan video signals are displayed one full frame at a time, with all rows
scanned at each “refresh”. This results in a brighter image, with greater
clarity and reduced distortion. The BDP 10 is capable of outputting
576p/480p, 720p and 1080i video signals through its component
video outputs.
The HDMI connection carries video in digital form, and the even
greater capacity allows for scan rates of up to 1080p. With the advent
of high-resolution video, the frame refresh rate (or the number of
times per second a frame is displayed) has become an important
consideration in achieving superior performance. Analog video is
displayed at a rate of “50i”, or 50 times per second, interlaced. Digital
video supports a rate of 24p, or 24 frames per second, progressive,
which matches film, delivering a pleasing cinematic look. Blu-ray Disc
and DVD media are stored at 24p. If your video display is capable of
handling 1080/24p video, the BDP 10 will output compatible source
materials at that rate through the HDMI Output.
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