Pioneer DV-490V-S - Manual (Page 45)

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*1 DivX, DivX Certified, and associated logos are
trademarks of DivX, Inc. and are used under
license.
*2
Manufactured under license from Dolby
Laboratories. “Dolby” and the double-D symbol
are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.
*3 “DTS” and “DTS Digital Out” are registered
trademarks of Digital Theater Systems, Inc.
*4
HDMI, the HDMI logo and High-Definition
Multimedia Interface are trademarks or
registered trademarks of HDMI licensing LLC.
MP3 MP3 (MPEG1 audio layer 3) is a
compressed stereo audio file format.
Files are recognized by their file
extension “.mp3”.
MPEG audio An audio format used on Video CDs and
some DVD discs.
PBC
(PlayBack
Control) A system of navigating a Video CD
through on-screen menus recorded
onto the disc.
PCM
(Pulse Code
Modulation) Digital audio encoding system found on
CDs. Good quality, but requires a lot of
data compared to Dolby Digital, DTS
and MPEG encoded audio. See also
Digital audio .
Progressive
scan video All the lines that make up a video
picture are updated in one pass
(compared to interlace which takes two
passes to update the whole picture).
Regions These associate DVD-Video discs and
players with particular areas of the
world. See
DVD-Video regions on
page 42 for more information.
Sampling
frequency The rate at which sound is measured to
be turned into digital audio data. The
higher the rate, the better the sound
quality. CD is 44.1 kHz; DVD can be up
to 96 kHz. See also
Digital audio .
WMA WMA is short for Windows Media Audio
and refers to an audio compression
technology developed by Microsoft
Corporation. Files are recognized by
their file extension “.wma”.
Microsoft, Windows Media, and the
Windows logo are trademarks, or
registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States and/or
other countries.
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