Harman Kardon HS 300 Owner's Manual

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60GLOSSARYAspect Ratio: This is a description of the width of a video image inrelation to its height. A conventional video screen is four units wide forevery three units of height, making it almost square. Newer wide-aspect-ratio video displays are 16 units wide for every nine units of height,making them more like the screen in a movie theater. The programmaterial on a DVD may be recorded in either format and, in addition,you may configure the HS 300 to play back in either format, dependingon the features recorded on a disc.AVI (Audio Video Interleave) Files: The AVI format was developed byMicrosoft Corporation to contain media files. AVI files can be quite large,and a number of compression techniques have been developed. Dueto the lack of standardization among these compression programs, theHS 300 is not able to play compressed AVI files. Because enthusiastshave adopted a variety of techniques for adding features to the AVIformat, it is possible that any particular AVI file will not be compatiblewith the HS 300.Chapter: DVD programs are divided into chapters and titles. Chaptersare the subsections programmed into a single title on a disc. Chaptersmay be compared to the individual tracks on an audio CD. Press theDisc Menu Button to see a listing of the chapters on a disc.Component Video: This form of video signal eliminates many of theartifacts of traditional composite video signals by splitting the signal intoa separate luminance channel (the “Y” signal channel) and two color-difference signals (the Pr and Pb signal channels). With a componentvideo connection, you will see greater picture resolution and eliminatemany picture imperfections such as the moiré patterns often seen oncheck-patterned cloth. However, in order to benefit from componentvideo, you must have a video display with Y/Pr/Pb component videoinputs. Do not connect the component video outputs of the HS 300to the standard composite or S-video inputs of a TV or recorder.Group: The individual tracks on a DVD-Audio disc may be combinedinto Groups. There may be more than one Group on a disc. Dependingon the way a disc’s producers create the program, the Groups cancontain different program material, or they may repeat the disc’s contentin different audio formats, such as 5.1 audio or high-resolution stereo.HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection): HDCP is thespecification for protecting digitally encoded content from unauthorizedcopying when it is transmitted from a DVD player (or other video source)to a video display using HDMI or DVI connections. In order to takeadvantage of the high-resolution output of the HS 300 via its HDMIoutput, your display must be HDCP-compliant. Virtually all displays withHDMI inputs are HDCP-compliant, but not all DVI-equipped displays are.If you are using the HS 300 with an optional HDMI-to-DVI cable oradapter, check the owner’s manual for your display to determinewhether it is HDCP-compliant.HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface): HDMI is a serial-busform of communication between the DVD player and the video displayor audio/video receiver. It is capable of passing digital audio and high-definition digital video using a single cable. With HDMI, the HS 300 iscapable of outputting high-resolution (720p or 1080i) video and 5.1-channel Dolby Digital or DTS digital audio, with the convenience of justa single cable connection.JPEG Files: JPEG stands for the Joint Photographic Experts Group,which developed a standard for compressing still images, such asphotographs. JPEG files may be created on a personal computer byimporting images from a digital camera, or scanning printed photo-graphs. These files may be burned onto a compact disc or stored ona USB device. The HS 300 is capable of recognizing JPEG files andenabling you to view them on your video screen.MP3 Files: MP3 is an audio compression format that was developedby the Motion Picture Experts Group as an adjunct to the MPEG-1 videocompression format. A number of encoding software programs areavailable for transferring CDs and other audio programs into the MP3format. The main benefit of MP3 is that it reduces the size of audio filesconsiderably, depending on the amount of compression selected duringthe encoding process, enabling you to store many more songs on onecompact disc than in the standard audio CD format. The HS 300 iscapable of playing MP3 files stored either on a disc or a USB deviceusing its advanced graphic interface.MPEG 2 files: MPEG stands for the Motion Pictures Expert Group,which defines digital audio/video standards. The MPEG 2 format isa method of compressing video presentations, and is the standardgenerally used for television broadcasting and DVD, with some minormodifications appropriate to each type of use.Multiple Angle: DVDs have the capability to show up to four differentviews of the same scene in a program. When a disc is encoded withmultiple-angle information, pressing the Angle Button will enable you toswitch between these different views. Note that, at present, few discstake advantage of this capability and, when they do, the multiple-angletechnology may only be present for short periods of time within the disc.Producers will usually insert some sort of icon or graphic in the pictureto alert you to the availability of multiple-angle scenes. In addition, theHS 300’s angle indicator will remain lit in the front-panel display for theduration of multi-angle availability.Progressive Scan: Progressive-scan playback takes the original videosignal on the disc and formats it as a high-scan-rate output with twicethe scan lines of conventional video images. Progressive-scan outputsmust be connected to “digital-ready” or high-definition video displays,regardless of the technology of the specific display (e.g., conventionaldirect-view television, front or rear projector, plasma display panel orLCD). In some cases, the displays may have special inputs for use withhigh-scan-rate inputs, and in others you may need to make adjustmentsto the display’s setup menus to make certain that the inputs used areconfigured for an “HD” signal. Although the progressive-scan outputuses the component video jacks, it is not compatible with older conven-tional analog video displays, even when they have component inputs,unless you change the Scan Rate setting in the Video Setup submenu.Reading: This is a message that you will see when you first press thePlay Button. It refers to the fact that the player must first examine thecontents of the disc to determine its type, and then extract the informationGLOSSARY