2.0 Channel DVD
DVD-player which is connected to a TV by means of a scart-cable. There is also a possibility to connect two speakers.

5.1 Channel DVD
a surround format that uses 5 channels (front-, center-, surround speakers) of full frequency sound and one channel for low frequency (subwoofer)

Aux
(auxiliary): this is an extra input for another sound source which has a 100 V signal

Bitrate Indicator
he video bit-rate indicator gives information which is needed to get a great sound and image. When the bitrate is too low, more images and sounds can be place on a DVD, but the quality will be worse. The bitrate for DVD’s will be between 3 and 10 megabits a second.

CD
(Compact Disc): this kind of format is the most dominant digital audio format for the past years. Now the DVD is taking over this position slowly

CR-R
(Compact Discs Writable): a recordable CD format that supports one-time recording

CD-RW
(Compact Discs Rewritable): a recordable CD format which can be written more than 1000 times. This kind of CD’s can also play CD-R, the other way around is not always possible.

Coaxial Digital Audio Output
every DVD-player has at least one digital output. This output can be optical or coaxial, some DVD-players have both. This digital audio connection is used to connect a digital source like a DVD-player to a receiver. When surround sound will be used, you have to pay attention to the fact if the output is the same as the boosters’ input.

Color contrast
clear differences in colors

DC 12V
article can be connected to 12Volt.

DCS
(Digital Cinema Sound): it was the first commercial digital sound system for cinemas. Because of DCS a lot of knowledge has been gathered for Dolby and DTS and other system. DCS encoded the sound into 5.1 discrete audio channels (front- surround-, centerspeakers and subwoofer).

DIVX
DivX is a codec, which means that you can play video messages which are coded with DivX., this is based on a MPEG4 compression. The most unique thing about DivX is the high quality which takes little space on a CD. The DivX will be used to save a video with a high bitrate of quality. The codex will be used to record a movie on DVD on a CD. The advantage is the huge compression and a high screen quality. The disadvantage is that only fast computers can play DivX-messages.

Dolby Digital Sound
it means that the sound can be coded to five different sound channels. These are two front speakers, two surround speakers and a central speaker. It is also possible to connect a subwoofer for special effects.

DTS
(Digital Theater Surround): this is a 5.1 channel surround sound format. DTS features up to five channels (front-, surround- and central speaker) of full frequency sound. The DTS sound system has six tracks designed to produce the best sound reproduction in a movie theatre

DVD
(Digital Versatile Disc): a disc with a lot of space for data, images and sounds. The capacity is 4,7 GB for just an one side disc.

DVD+RW
a recordable CD format which can be written more than 1000 times. Note, the differences between DVD-RW and DVD+RW is that DVD+RW have Mount Rainier. This is a file which has access to Longhorn, which is a new Windows version in the near future.

DVD-Audio
this system uses the capacity of a DVD for audio information only. Sometimes people get confused with a DVD-video. Images and audio are recorded on this one. But you may confuse DVD-audio with a DVD-video on which images and sounds are recorded. Very important is the fact that sounds will be compressed to Dolby Digital or DTS. DVD-audio does not compress that much information as DVD-video does. This is because DVD-audio uses the same system as CD has, but they use more sampling frequencies and bitrates. As a result we have a higher quality of sound.

DVD-R
a recordable CD format which can be written only once. There are some little differences between DVD’s, so it is necessary to know which DVD’s can be play.

DVD-RW
a recordable CD format which can be written more than 1000 times. DVD-players which can play DVD-RW can also play DVD-R. The other way around is not always possible

DVD-Video
a worldwide standard of how video data can be store on a DVD. This format is used for movies and other video titles. It features information for both video and audio.

Fast Scan
the same as fast forward

Home Theater
a system of audio and video components working together to recreate the theatrical movie experience at home. A home theater-set consists out of: a DVD-player, TV, A/V receiver, 5 speakers and a subwoofer.

Hybride SACD
most SACD’s are hybrid in Europe. This means it is not necessary to have a SACD player to play the discs. But when you have one and you use such a SACD player, you will have more quality of sound

Hyperband tuner
this is a TV function to receive special TV channels.

Hz
stands for Hertz. It is a unit of measure of the frequency, pitch or sound

JPEG/ AUDIO CD
JPEG is a program to make large messages small when they are recorded. For example: when an image uses the same color on different places, JPEG record the color only once. After this JPEG mentions the number of pixels which have the same color

MP3
a format which makes music messages smaller, so you can record more music on a CD. MP3 will be more popular because the messages are small. Advantages are the good quality of sounds and you can download the music from the Internet very quickly

MPEG
an association of motion picture engineers who develops standards for compressing audio and video signal

Multi angle view
the chance to see the images from a certain angle

Multi language
the possibility to translate sentences/ words etc. into different languages. It’s possible for a DVD to have up to 32 different languages. In Europe the number of languages will be reduce to 4 translations only

NTSC
(National Television Standards Committee): this is a standard for American TV. Only America and Japan are using this standard. All the discs which only have region 1 are NTSC-formats.

On screen display
a little display on the screen which makes it possible to change some things like color brightness etc.

Optical Digital Audio Output
a optical digital audio connection between a digital source component to a receiver

PAL
(Phase Alternate Line): this TV system is used only in Western Europe, Latin America, South Africa and Australia

Parental Lock
a lot of DVD’s have a age code, this means that children cannot play any DVD they want. Parents have to permit the DVD first

Picture in Picture
(PIP): a little screen in the corner of the screen. You can watch two things: the DVD/ Video and another channel

Progressive scan
progressive scanning is the ability to generate a picture just in one step. This scanning requires two steps to get a picture, the first pass for the odd-numbered scan lines; first the odd-numbered scan lines, second scan lines for the even-numbered. Conventional analog TV means scanning with a refresh rate of 30 times per second, while progressive scanning is twice that at 60 times per second

Receiver
a single unit box that performs the functions of a tuner

Region free
every region (groups of countries) have certain codes. Because of these codes it is impossible just to play any DVD on the DVD-player in any country. But all our DVD-players are region free, you only have to know a code (see manual description) which makes the DVD-player region free. Codes for the countries are: 1 USA, Canada 2 Europe, Japan, South Africa, Far East 3 South East Asia 4 Australia, New Zealand, South America 5 Africa, Mongolia 6 China 7 Reserved 8 Airplanes and ships 0 The DVD is playable in all regions

Resolution
screen compactness, number of pixels (pixel advancement)

SACD
(Super Audio CD): a new high resolution digital audio format for many improvements of the audio CD format. SACD uses a new method of encoding audio, called Direct Stream Digital (DSD). It also support high resolution stereo recordings as well as high resolution multi channel discrete audio channels. Because of this it is possible to reproduce an experience that is best described as the future for sounds.

Scart cable
a cable to sent signals to the TV

Selectable screen size
the possibility to change the screen size into 4:3 and 16:9. 4:3 means that the screen has two black beams, one above and one under. With 16:9, the screen is completely filled. Sometimes it is difficult to reflect to right screen size because of the big screen size of the movie itselves

Smooth slow
the picture plays several speeds ahead or reverse, while the quality of the pictures remains sticking out

Subwoofer
a special speaker to reproduce low bass frequencies for low frequencies effects

Surround sound
you can hear the sound everywhere, because you can place the speakers around you. You have different speakers; two front speakers, two surround speakers, one central speaker and a subwoofer

SVCD
SVCD means Super Video Compact Disc. It is a CD on which moving pictures (films) can be fixed and after that you can play the CD on a computer or DVD-player. You can compare it with a video and a video recorder. But there is one difference, the screens are digitalized. The quality of a SVCD is comparable with DVD and VCD

TFT-screen
(Thin Film Transistor): a kind of screen for TV and computer. The screens are flat and they save a lot of space. They are also called matrix screens.

VCD
(Video Compact Disc): VCD looks the same as CD’s and they can also play music. The differences between those two kind of formats is that VCD’s can also play moving images. The quality of these VCD’s is between DVD and VHS.

Video signal output
this is a connection which send video signals to another component.