Packard Bell Easy DVD Recorder User Manual - page 9
Easy DVD Recorder User's Guide
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Special features
The digital input connector, known as 'firewire' or 'IEEE1394', is used to
transmit digital broadband signals. The audio and video signals are
transmitted via the same cable.
MP3 files are highly compressed music files, which compress standard CD
audio files to ~1/10 of their original size. As a result, up to 10 hours of music
can be stored on a single CD.
Ordinary the video is recorded at the current position of the disc. This is like
the tape recorder, the user can start recording at the middle of the tape. For
DVD+R discs, new video segment is always appended to the existing video
segments. The
Easy DVD Recorder
can play both pre-recorded DVDs and
CDs. DVDs recorded using this DVD recorder can be played on most current
and future DVD players.
Dolby Digital is a standard developed by Dolby Laboratories for transmitting
from 1 to 5 full-range channels as well as a low frequency (.1) channel for a
total of 5.1 discrete channels. The loudspeakers are arranged as follows: front
left, front right, middle, rear left and rear right. Dolby Digital is currently the
most common system and is often used in cinemas.
This product contains copy protection technology, which is protected by US
Patent and other intellectual property rights. Use of this copy protection
technology from Macrovision Corporation requires the approval of
Macrovision. It is intended exclusively for home use and other limited pay-
per-view applications, unless Macrovision approves some other use in writing.
Modifications to the equipment, removal of components and reverse
engineering are prohibited.
DivX is a codec (short for compression/decompression) - a piece of software
that compresses video from virtually any source down to a size that is
transportable over the Internet without reducing the original video's visual
quality. Currently the highest DivX version supported by the
Easy DVD
Recorder
is DivX5.2. To rent or purchase videos using DivX® technology,
please make sure you register.