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14. Glossary
Aspect ratio 4:3 and 16:9
Complete picture is for programs that have been developed for TV display with aspect
ratio of 4:3. Wide screen is for aspect ratio of 16:9. If you display wide screen programs
on a 4:3 monitor, you will see black bars on the bottom and top.
HDCD
Pacific Microsonics has developed a digital audio technology that uses the full potential of
a CD. The HDCD process (High Definition Compatible Digital) is a patent-registered
coding and decoding, with the help of which all details of a high definition “master record”
will be transmitted.
MPEG4
MPEG4 is a standard, mainly for the compression of audio and video digital data.
MPEG4 contains many features of MPEG1 and MPEG2 as well as of other similar
standards.