INTRODUCTION
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Overview (Continued)
Disc Related Terms
Title (DVD only)
The main film content or accompanying feature content
or music album. Each title is assigned a title reference
number enabling you to locate it easily.
Chapter (DVD only)
Sections of a picture or a musical piece that are smaller
than titles. A title is composed of one or several chap-
ters. Each chapter is assigned a number to enable you
to easily locate the chapter you want. Depending on the
disc, chapters may not be labeled.
Track (Video CD and Audio CD only)
Sections of a picture or a musical piece on a video CD
or an audio CD. Each track is assigned a number,
enabling you to easily locate the track you want.
Scene
On a video CD with PBC (Playback Control), movies
and pictures are divided into “scenes”. Each scene is
displayed on a menu and assigned a number, enabling
you to quickly locate the scene you want. A scene may
be composed of one or several tracks.
Types of Video CDs
There are two types of video CDs:
Video CDs equipped with PBC (Version 2.0)
PBC (Playback control) allows you to interact with the
contents of a Video CD using menus, search functions,
and other special operations. High resolution pictures
can be displayed if they are included on the disc.
Video CDs not equipped with PBC (Version 1.1)
Video CDs without PBC are similar to audio CDs,
except they allow playback of video as well as sound.
What is ‘DoMiNoFX™’?
DoMiNoFX™ is a patented video process-
ing technology that digitally enhances and refines the
picture quality during recording. This results in visibly
superior recordings, and a dramatic improvement when
recording from noisy source material, such as VHS
tapes or weak TV signals.
About Symbols
About the Symbol
“ ” may appear on the TV screen during operation.
This icon means the function explained in this owner’s
manual is not available on that specific disc.
Symbols Used in this Manual
Many functions provided on this recorder are dependent
on the Recording mode. One or more of the symbols
( , ) appear by each function explained
in this manual so that you can see at a glance whether
it’s applicable to the loaded disc.
DVD-R/RW in Video recording mode
DVD-RW in VR recording mode
DVD-Video disc
Video CD
Audio CD
MP3 Disc
WMA CD
JPEG CD
VHS Tape
Finalized DVD discs are DVD-Video discs.
VHS
JPEG
WMA
MP3
CD
VCD
DVD
VR
Video
VR
Video