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Glossary

General

Analog audio

Direct representation of sound by an electrical signal.
See also

Digital audio

.

Digital audio

Indirect representation of sound using numbers. See
also

Sampling frequency

and

Analog audio

.

DRM

DRM (digital rights management) copy protection is a
technology designed to prevent unauthorized copying by
restricting playback, etc. of compressed audio files on
devices other than the PC (or other recording equipment)
used to record it. For detailed information, please see the
instruction manuals or help files that came with your PC
and/or software.

File extension

A tag added to the end of a filename to indicate the type
of file. For example, “.mp3” indicates an MP3 file.

ISO 9660 format

International standard for the volume and file structure of
CD-ROM discs.

MP3

MP3 (MPEG1 audio layer 3) is a compressed stereo audio
file format. Files are recognized by their file extension
“.mp3”.

PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)

Digital audio encoding system found on CDs. Good
quality, but requires a lot of data compared to
compressed audio formats. See also

Digital audio

.

Sampling frequency

The rate at which sound is measured to be turned into
digital audio data. The higher the rate, the better the
sound quality. CD is 44.1 kHz; DVD can be up to 96 kHz.
See also

Digital audio

.

Super Audio CD (SACD)

Super Audio CD is a high quality audio disc format that
can accommodate high sampling rate stereo and multi-
channel audio, as well as conventional CD audio all on
the same disc.

Home Media Gallery

Default Gateway

Default Gateway is a node on a computer network that
serves as an access point to another network. A default
gateway (such as a computer and router) is used to
forward all traffic that is not addressed to a station within
the local subnet.

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
Server

A DHCP server is a server that allocates IP addresses to
hosts (network devices). In most cases, a broadband
router serves as a DHCP server in a home network.

DLNA

The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a cross-
industry organization of consumer electronics,
computing industry and mobile device companies. Digital
Living provides consumers with easy sharing of digital
media through a wired or wireless network in the home.

The DLNA certification logo makes it easy to find
products that comply with the DLNA Interoperability
Guidelines. This unit complies with DLNA Interoperability
Guidelines v1.0.

DNS

DNS is an abbreviation for the Domain Name System,
which stores and associates many types of information
with domain names. Most importantly, DNS translates
domain names (computer hostnames or sitenames,
such as www.pioneerelectronics.com) to IP addresses
(such as 202.221.192.106).

Ethernet

A frame-based computer networking technology for local
area networks (LANs). This receiver supports 100BASE-
TX and 10BASE-T.

FLAC

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio format
allows lossless codec. Audio is compressed in FLAC
without any loss in quality. For more details about FLAC,
visit the following website: http://flac.sourceforge.net/

IP (Internet Protocol) address

A unique number that devices use in order to identify and
communicate with each other on a network utilizing the
Internet Protocol standard, such as ‘192.168.0.1’. No
duplicate numbers are allowed in the network.

LAN

LAN is an abbreviation for the Local Area Network, which
is a computer network covering a small geographical
area, like a home, office, or group of buildings. Current
LANs are most likely to be based on switched IEEE 802.3
Ethernet technology, running at 10, 100, or 1000 Mbit/s,
or on IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi technology.

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