Xoro HSD 8410: GLOSSARY

GLOSSARY

Hosiden-connector

4-pin connector for S-Video connections.

HUE

HUE settings affect the colour balance of the picture.

Interlaced

The picture is created by writing two half pictures with a 1 line set-off on the screen. This

is standard on conventional 50 Hz TV sets.

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Kodak Picture CD

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The KODAK Picture CD

is the ideal media for allround photographers. All pictures are

English

stored at an excellent resolution of 1024 x 1536 pixel. On the KODAK Picture CD, the

images of your camera film strip are stored. It is not possible to add pictures at a later

point of time.

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Note: There also are „Kodak Foto CDs

“ available. As they have a proprietary file format,

your DVD player cannot playback these media.

LPCM

LPCM stands for: Linear Pulse Code Modulation.

Digital, uncompressed audio recording. Standard on Audio-CDs.

MP3

MPEG 1 Layer 3 Codec, or short MP3, was developed in 1987 by Fraunhofer Institut für

Integrierte Schaltungen and was a revolution in audio compression. In 1992 it became

part of MPEG-1 video format. As MP3 offered high quality audio at incredible small file

size, it became an won standard. With this codec one can compress audio files to about 1

MB / minute.

MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a standard used primarily to compress audio and video (AV) digital data. Intro-

duced in late 1998, it is the designation for a group of audio and video coding standards

and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group

(MPEG). The uses for the MPEG-4 standard are web (streaming media) and CD distribu-

tion, conversation (videophone), and broadcast television, all of which benefit from com-

pressing the AV stream. MPEG-4 absorbs many of the features of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2

and other related standards.

By MPEG-4 could be used a lot of different audio compression method. Most popular are

MP3 and AC3.

NTSC

Widespread TV standard, espacially in US and Asia. 525 (480 viewable) Lines and 60 Hz

refresh rate. Describes the way the video information (brightness, color, refresh rate etc.)

is transmitted. Within Europe, this video standard only appears on imported media (like

US DVDs).

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