Ferguson HDplayer 110, Quick Start Manual

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Glossary

Analog: 

Sound that has not been turned into 

numbers. Analog sound varies, while digital 

sound has specific numerical values. These jacks 

send audio through two channels, the left and 

right.

Aspect ratio

: The ratio of vertical and horizontal 

sizes of a displayed image. The horizontal vs. 

vertical ratio of conventional TVs. is 4:3, and that 

of widescreens is 16:9.

AUDIO OUT Jacks

: Jacks on the back of the DVD 

System that send audio to another system (TV, 

Stereo, etc.).

Bit Rate

: The amount of data used to hold a 

given length of music; measured in kilobits per 

seconds, or kbps. Or, the speed at which you 

record. Generally, the higher the bit rate, or 

the higher the recording speed, the better the 

sound quality. However, higher bit rates use 

more space on a Disc.

Disc menu

: A screen display prepared for 

allowing selection of images, sounds, subtitles, 

multi-angles, etc recorded on a DVD.

Digital

: Sound that has been converted into 

numerical values. Digital sound is available 

when you use the DIGITAL AUDIO OUT COAXIAL 

or OPTICAL jacks. These jacks send audio 

through multiple channels, instead of just two 

channels as analog does.

XviD

: MPEG-4 based video compression 

technology, that can shrink digital video to 

sizes small enough to be transported over the 

internet, while maintaining high visual quality.

Dolby Digital

: A surround sound system 

developed by Dolby Laboratories containing 

up to six channels of digital audio (front left 

and right, surround left and right, center and 

subwoofer).

JPEG

: A very common digital still picture 

format. A still-picture data compression system 

proposed by the Joint Photographic Expert 

Group, which features small decrease in image 

quality in spite of its high compression ratio.

PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)

: A system for 

converting analog sound signal to digital signal 

for later processing, with no data compression 

used in conversion.

Surround

: A system for creating realistic 

threedimensional sound fields full of realism by 

arranging multiple speakers around the listener.

VIDEO OUT jack

: Jack on the back of the DVD 

System that sends video to a TV.

HDMI

: High Definition Multimedia Interface. A 

specification developed by the HDMI Working 

Group that combines multi-channel audio and 

high definition video and that controls signals 

into a single digital interface for use with DVD 

players, digital television, and other audiovisual 

devices.

H.264

: s a next-generation video compression 

format. H.264 is also known as MPEG-4 AVC. 

Developed for use in high definition systems 

such as HDTV, Blu-ray as well as low resolution 

portable devices, H.264 offers better quality at 

lower file sizes than both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 

ASP (DivX or XviD). H.264 is sometimes referred 

(erroneously) as x264 – x264 is the name of a 

popular freeware encoder for the H.264 format. 

H.264 is also sometimes referred to as MP4, 

again this is technically incorrect. MP4 is a 

container format much like AVI or MKV and it 

can be used to “house” many different types of 

compression codecs, not just H.264.