User guide

5
Introduction
Before Use
(Continued)
Storing
Discs
After
playing,
store the disc in its case. Do not
expose
the disc to direct
sunlight
or sources of heat and never leave it in a
parked
car
exposed
to
direct
sunlight.
Cleaning
Discs
Fingerprints
and dust on the disc can cause
poor picture quality
and
sound distortion. Before
playing,
clean the disc with a clean cloth.
Wipe
the disc from the center out.
Do not use
strong
solvents such as
alcohol, benzine, thinner,
commercial-
ly
available
cleaners,
or anti-static
spray
intended for older
vinyl
records.
Disc-related terms
DVD±R/DVD±RW
DVD -R and DVD +R are two different standards for recordable DVD
drives and discs. This format allows information to be recorded onto the
DVD disc
only
once. DVD +RW and DVD -RW are two standards for
re-writable
media,
meaning
the DVD content can be erased and re-
recorded.
Single-sided
discs can hold 4.38
Gigabyte
and double-sided
discs hold twice as much. There are no dual
layer single
sided recordable
discs.
VCD
(Video CD)
A VCD holds
up
to 74 minutes
(650
MB
disc)
or 80 minutes
(700
MB
disc)
of MPEG-1 full-motion video
along
with
quality
stereo sound.
MPEG
MPEG is an international standard for video and audio
compression.
MPEG-1 is used in
encoding
video for VCD and
provides
for multichan-
nel surround sound
coding
such as
PCM,
Dolby Digital,
DTS and MPEG
audio.
MP3
MP3 is a
popular compression
format used for
digital
audio files that
yields very high
near-CD
quality.
WMA
Windows media audio file. A
type
of
coding
/
decoding developed by
Microsoft
Corp.
JPEG
Joint Pictures
Expert Group.
JPEG is a
compressed
file format that
allows
you
to save
images
with no limit on the number of colors.
DivX
DivX is the name of a
revolutionary
new video codec which is based on
the new MPEG-4
compression
standard for video.You will be able to
play
DivX movies
using
this DVD
player.