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NTSC National Television System Committee, television norm among others in the
USA and Japan (from 525 lines only 480 lines will be transferred with a picture
changing frequency of 60 half pictures per second).
Optical digital audio connector A digital audio connection used to connect a DVD player to a receiver or pre-
amplifier. Transfers a “RAW” digital audio signal, minimizes signal degradation.
PAL Phase Alternation Line, television norm in Germany and other European coun-
tries (from 625 lines only 576 lines will be transferred with a picture changing
frequency of 50 half pictures per second).
Pan & Scan When used with a normal TV (4:3 aspect ratio), this setting results in the typical
“Pan & Scan” display, where a movie is clipped on the sides to fit on the TV
screen.
PCM Pulse Code Modulation. Linear data stream, which arises from the scanning of
an analogue signal in the same intervals.
Progressive-Scan Is a method of making a computer picture by drawing all the scan lines sequen-
tially from top to bottom resulting in a slightly brighter, more stable and flicker
free picture.
Region code DVD movies are produced with region encoding to restrict distribution of titles to
certain areas at certain times. To play back a DVD title with a specific region
code, you will need a DVD player with the same region code.
RGB Electrical transmission possibility for video pictures, i.e. it is a picture signal,
which is splintered according to the primary colours of the TV (red, green and
blue).
SACD Super Audio CD is a new generation of the CD which dispose of a higher stor-
age capacity, a higher frequency spectrum (0-100kHz), a more detailed repro-
duction as well as a longer playing time and additional data like lyrics or graph-
ics.
SCART socket The SCART socket is the simplest connection between your DVD player and
your TV. It transports not only the picture signals, but also the sound signals.
S-Video S-Video offers significantly improved video signal performance through a basic
composite video connection. To use this type of connection, your TV must have
an S-Video input.
SVCD Super Video CD is a further development of the Video CD. It uses MPEG-2
video compression with a higher and variable data rate.
VCD Video CD. A digital video disc format that uses MPEG 1 video compression. The
picture quality is roughly that of VHS tapes.
Widescreen Transmission of a wide-screen film on video with black bars on top and on bot-
tom.
WMA Windows Media Audio is a streaming media format from Microsoft.
YUV The description YUV means the component video signals, i. e. the luminance
(Y) signal and two separate chrominance [B-Y (U), R-Y (V)] signals.
XviD XviD (aback DivX) is a further development of the “OpenDivX” project created
by DivXNetworks. It should be for free for everybody.
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