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Super Audio CD
Super Audio CD is a new high-quality audio disc
standard where music is recorded in the DSD
(Direct Stream Digital) format (conventional CDs
are recorded in the PCM format). The DSD format,
using a sampling frequency 64 times higher than
that of a conventional CD, and with 1-bit
quantization, achieves both a wide frequency range
and a wide dynamic range across the audible
frequency range, and so provides music
reproduction extremely faithful to the original
sound.
Title
The longest section of a picture or music feature on
a DVD, movie, etc., in video software, or the entire
album in audio software.
Track
Section of a picture or a music piece on a VIDEO
CD, CD, Super Audio CD, or MP3/WMA. An
album is composed of several tracks (MP3/WMA
only).
VIDEO CD
A compact disc that contains moving pictures.
The picture data uses the MPEG 1 format, one of a
worldwide standard of digital compression
technology. The picture data is compressed to about
1/140 of its original size. Consequently, a 12 cm
VIDEO CD can contain up to 74 minutes of moving
pictures.
VIDEO CDs also contain compact audio data.
Sounds outside the range of human hearing are
compressed while sounds we can hear are not
compressed. VIDEO CDs can hold 6 times the
audio information of conventional audio CDs.
There are 3 versions of VIDEO CDs.
• Version 1.0, 1.1: You can play only moving
pictures and sound.
• Version 2.0: You can play high-resolution still
pictures and enjoy PBC functions.
This unit conforms to all 3 versions above.
