Bose Lifestyle 18 - Manual (Page 5)

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Introduction
W elcome
Thank you for pur chasing a LIFESTYLE ® DVD-based home entertainment system. Thr ough
proprietary Bose technologies and innovative LIFESTYLE ® systems design, it delivers supe -
rior performance for both music and video programming from an elegant and easy-to-use
system.
Note: Because DVD is a r elatively new technology, please take the time to read through this
manual and familiarize yourself with the features of your new system.
T ypes of discs you can play
The DVD player in your system can play the following types of discs having the
corresponding logos:
• Video DVDs
• Video CDs (VCDs)
• Audio CDs
• CD-Rs or CD-R/Ws
• MP3 CDs
Check for region number compatibility
For any DVD player and DVD disc to be compatible, their r egion numbers must match. These
numbers are allocated according to where the player and disc are sold.
Check the region number on the bottom of the media center included with your system. Then
be sure to choose only DVD discs that show the same region number on the disc label or
packaging.
For example, a Region 1 DVD player should display the following mark:
Glossary
Aspect ratio – The shape of the rectangular picture in a TV set expressed as the width of the
picture relative to the height. For example, if a TV picture has an aspect ratio of 4:3 (read as 4
by 3), the shape of that picture is 4 units wide by 3 units high. The two standard TV aspect
ratios are 4:3 and 16:9.
Chapter – In DVD-Video, a division of a title. Technically called a part of title (PTT).
Component video – A video system containing three separate color component signals,
either red/green/blue (RGB) or chroma/color difference (YPbPr), in analog or digital form. The
MPEG-2 encoding system used by DVD is based on color-difference component digital
video.