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TAB TAB TAB 6Italiano TAB 5 GLOSSARY D Digital audio - Audio in digital form. Digital audio con- verts analog sound into a digital signal encoded as bits of information. Dolby Digital - A means of encoding multi-channel audio, developed by Dolby Laboratories and accepted as an international standard. Down-conversion - The conversion from a higher-resolution input signal number to a lower one. - The logo representing Dolby Digital. DTS - An abbreviation for Digital Theater Systems. DTS encoding provides a type of multi-channel surround sound format used on certain CDs and many DVDs. - The logo representing DTS. DVD - An abbreviation most commonly known to mean digital video disc or digital versatile disc. A DVD looks like a CD but contains high-quality video and multi-channel audio for movies. TAB 4 TAB 3 TAB 2 English DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW - Abbreviations for Recordable (R) and ReWriteable (RW) Digital Video (or Versatile) Disc (DVD). Data can be added to a DVDR or +R once only, and to a DVD-RW or +RW more than once. DVD-ROM - The abbreviation for Read Only Memory (ROM) on a Digital Video (or Versatile) Disc (DVD), which allows no data to be added. DVD video - A standard for storing and reproducing audio and video on DVD-ROM discs, based on MPEG video, Dolby Digital audio, and other proprietary data formats. DVR - An abbreviation for Digital Video Recording, sometimes used interchangeably with PVR, for Personal Video Recording. A DVR uses a hard drive, an electronic program guide, and internal processing to drastically simplify programmed recording and playback of recorded programs. 62

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Digital audio
– Audio in digital form. Digital audio con-
verts analog sound into a digital signal encoded as bits
of information.
Dolby Digital
– A means of encoding multi-channel
audio, developed by Dolby Laboratories and accepted
as an international standard.
Down-conversion
– The conversion from a
higher-resolution input signal number to a lower one.
– The logo representing Dolby Digital.
DTS
– An abbreviation for Digital Theater Systems. DTS
encoding provides a type of multi-channel surround
sound format used on certain CDs and many DVDs.
– The logo representing DTS.
DVD
– An abbreviation most commonly known to mean
digital video disc or digital versatile disc. A DVD looks
like a CD but contains high-quality video and
multi-channel audio for movies.
DVD-R, DVD+R
,
DVD-RW, DVD+RW
– Abbreviations
for Recordable (R) and ReWriteable (RW) Digital Video
(or Versatile) Disc (DVD). Data can be added to a DVD-
R or +R once only, and to a DVD-RW or +RW more than
once.
DVD-ROM
– The abbreviation for Read Only Memory
(ROM) on a Digital Video (or Versatile) Disc (DVD), which
allows no data to be added.
DVD video
– A standard for storing and reproducing
audio and video on DVD-ROM discs, based on MPEG
video, Dolby Digital audio, and other proprietary data
formats.
DVR
– An abbreviation for Digital Video Recording,
sometimes used interchangeably with PVR, for
Personal Video Recording. A DVR uses a hard drive, an
electronic program guide, and internal processing to
drastically simplify programmed recording and
playback of recorded programs.
D