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8 INTRODUCTION
Introduction
The entertainment medium of the new
millennium
Video was never before like this! Perfect digital studio-quality pictures
with truly 3-dimensional digital multi-channel audio. Story sequences
screened from your own choice of camera angle. Language barriers
broken down by sound tracks in as many as eight languages, plus
subtitles - if available on disc - as many as 32. And whether you watch
DVD-Video on wide-screen or regular TV, you always see it the way it
was meant to be.
Digital video
DVD-Video uses state-of-the-art MPEG2 data compression technology
to register an entire movie on a single 5-inch disc. DVD’s variable
bitrate compression, running at up to 9.8 Mbits/second, captures even
the most complex pictures in their original quality.
The crystal-clear digital pictures have a horizontal resolution of over
500 lines, with 720 pixels (picture elements) to each line. This resolution
is more than double that of VHS, superior to Laser Disc, and entirely
comparable with digital masters made in recording studios.
DVD-Video discs conform to either the PAL or NTSC video standard.
This dual-standard player can play both types, and presents them in the
best possible way on your multi-standard TV screen.
As the universal video system of the future, DVD-Video offers optimal
pictures on any TV screen.
Your DVD-Video player
Your Philips DVD-Video player plays digital video discs conforming to
the universal DVD Video standard. With it, you will be able to enjoy
full-length movies with true cinema picture quality, and stereo or multi-
channel sound (depending on the disc and on your playback set-up).
The unique features of DVD-Video, such as selection of soundtrack and
subtitle languages, and of different camera angles (again depending on
the disc), are all included. What’s more, Philips’ Disc Lock lets you
decide which discs your children will be able to see.
You will find your player remarkably easy to use with the On-Screen
Display and player display in combination with the remote control.
New exciting features
Your new player also offers a range of unique, state-of-the-art features
to enhance your viewing pleasure.
These include:
● Digital Natural Motion, an exciting technology that smoothes
motion in the picture to give you a natural, more relaxing picture.
● Active Control, a powerful feature that automatically monitors
and corrects the signal coming from your DVD-Video disc to ensure
that you always have the best possible picture, and that all discs you
play have the same appearance.
