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Digital and electronic
It would eventually be replaced by cheaper systems using video compression, most notably Sony's Digital Betacam ( still heavily used as a electronic field production ( EFP ) recording format by professional television producers ) that were introduced into the network's television studios.
The IHO publishes the international standards related to charting and hydrography, including S-57 IHO Transfer Standard for Digital Hydrographic Data, the encoding standard that is used primarily for electronic navigational charts.
MIDI (; short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface ) is an electronic musical instrument industry specification that enables a wide variety of digital musical instruments, computers and other related devices to connect and communicate with one another.
* Musical Instrument Digital Interface, an industry-standard protocol that enables electronic musical instruments, computers and other electronic equipment to communicate and synchronize with each other
Digital imaging uses an electronic image sensor to record the image as a set of electronic data rather than as chemical changes on film.
Digital cameras use an electronic image sensor based on light-sensitive electronics such as charge-coupled device ( CCD ) or complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor ( CMOS ) technology.
Prinz and Prinztronic were own-brand trade names of the British Dixons photographic and electronic goods stores retail chain, which was later rebranded as Currys Digital stores, and became part of DSG International.
** Digital media, electronic media used to store, transmit, and receive digitized information
Digital electronics, or digital ( electronic ) circuits, represent signals by discrete bands of analog levels, rather than by a continuous range.
Digital techniques are useful because it is easier to get an electronic device to switch into one of a number of known states than to accurately reproduce a continuous range of values.
Digital electronic circuits are usually made from large assemblies of logic gates, simple electronic representations of Boolean logic functions.
* Digital rights management ( DRM ), a computer means of preventing duplication or re-distribution of computer-sensible data or computer programs, in particular, computer games and electronic media.
Digital barometric pressure sensor for altitude measurement in consumer electronic applications
Digital media is a form of electronic media where data are stored in digital ( as opposed to analog ) form.
* electronic pianos such as the Roland Digital Piano
Digital signatures are often used to implement electronic signatures, a broader term that refers to any electronic data that carries the intent of a signature, but not all electronic signatures use digital signatures.
Digital signatures cryptographically bind an electronic identity to an electronic document and the digital signature cannot be copied to another document.
The term " nonlinear editing " or " non-linear editing " was formalized in 1991 with the publication of Michael Rubin's Nonlinear: A Guide to Digital Film and Video Editing ( Triad, 1991 ) -- which popularized this terminology over other language common at the time, including " real time " editing, " random-access " or " RA " editing, " virtual " editing, " electronic film " editing, and so on.

Digital and computers
* D is for Digital: What a well-informed person should know about computers and communications ( 2011 )
Digital Equipment Corporation should not be confused with the unrelated companies Digital Research, Inc or Western Digital ( despite the latter manufacturing the LSI-11 chipsets used in DEC's low end PDP-11 / 03 computers ).
Worried that a new computer company would find it difficult to arrange further financing, Doriot suggested the fledgling company change its business plan to focus less on computers, and even change their name from " Digital Computer Corporation ".
* Digital media adapter, a device that facilitates connections between computers
Digital circuits are the most common physical representation of Boolean algebra, and are the basis of all digital computers.
Digital joysticks were very common as game controllers for the video game consoles, arcade machines, and home computers of the 1980s.
A similar approach was used by Digital Equipment Corporation in their VAX family of computers.
At its introduction, the 68000 was first used in high-priced systems, including multiuser microcomputers like the WICAT 150, early Alpha Microsystems computers, Sage II / IV, Tandy TRS-80 Model 16, and Fortune 32: 16 ; single-user workstations such as Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 Series 200 systems, the first Apollo / Domain systems, Sun Microsystems ' Sun-1, and the Corvus Concept ; and graphics terminals like Digital Equipment Corporation's VAXstation 100 and Silicon Graphics ' IRIS 1000 and 1200.
Rovi's home entertainment technologies are incorporated into the vast majority of all DVD players, digital cable / satellite set-top boxes, personal computers, Digital Video Recorders ( DVRs ) and portable media players.
The name ' PDP ' intentionally avoided the use of the term ' computer ' because, at the time of the first PDPs, computers had a reputation of being large, complicated, and expensive machines, and the venture capitalists behind Digital ( especially Georges Doriot ) would not support Digital's attempting to build a " computer "; the word " minicomputer " had not yet been coined.
So instead, Digital used their existing line of logic modules to build a Programmable Data Processor and aimed it at a market which could not afford the larger computers.
Digital computers, being general-purpose programmable devices, were soon applied to control of industrial processes.
* Alpha, used in single-board computers, workstations, servers and supercomputers from Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq and HP, discontinued as of 2007.
Unfortunately for New England Digital, the Synclavier became a victim of the early 1990s economic downturn, the high prices ( albeit justified as the Synclavier system components were almost entirely military and aviation spec ), and the rapidly increasing capabilities of personal computers, MIDI-enabled synthesizers and low-cost digital samplers.
Similarly, the Play To feature once enabled for remote PCs, by turning on remote control of the player, allows compliant devices and computers to be discovered and controlled remotely from a computer running Windows Media Player 12 ( Digital Media Controller role ).
The record was digitally recorded in its entirety by Rabin on 10 GB of hard disk storage on four Apple Macintosh computers running Digital Performer.
At the same time, many manufacturers such as Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation, Sanyo, Texas Instruments, Tulip, Wang and Olivetti introduced personal computers that were MS DOS compatible, but not completely software-or hardware-compatible with the IBM PC.
Digital technology has converged television and computers into one single medium.
Digital art is any art in which computers played a role in production or display of the artwork.

Digital and like
At the same time, Compaq, through its acquisitions of the Digital Equipment Corporation last year and Tandem Computer in 1997, has tried to become a major systems company, like I. B. M.
Other modules in the system may include components like cartridges, tonearms, hi-fi turntables, Digital Media Players, digital audio players, DVD players that play a wide variety of discs including CDs, CD recorders, MiniDisc recorders, hi-fi videocassette recorders ( VCRs ) and reel-to-reel tape recorders.
Karaoke companies like Stingray Digital, Chartbuster and Easy Karaoke select popular songs and release soundalike tracks with lyrics synchronized, most commonly in CD + G format.
They also typically do not have other requirements that are common in copyleft licences, like restrictions on formats that the work can be available in or whether Digital Rights Management may be used on the product.
The key parts to be aware of are MPEG-4 part 2 ( including Advanced Simple Profile, used by codecs such as DivX, Xvid, Nero Digital and 3ivx and by QuickTime 6 ) and MPEG-4 part 10 ( MPEG-4 AVC / H. 264 or Advanced Video Coding, used by the x264 encoder, by Nero Digital AVC, by QuickTime 7, and by high-definition video media like Blu-ray Disc ).
Although designed for memory, Secure Digital Input / Output ( SDIO ) and CompactFlash cards are available that provide accessories like Wi-Fi or digital cameras, if the device can support them.
First-party developers may either use the name of the company itself ( like Nintendo ), have a specific division name ( like Sony's Polyphony Digital ), or have formerly been an independent studio before being acquired by the console manufacturer, such as Rare or Naughty Dog.
Digital voltmeters necessarily have input amplifiers, and, like vacuum tube voltmeters, generally have a constant input resistance of 10 megohms regardless of set measurement range.
For communities that lack adequate Internet connectivity -- like developing countries, rural areas, and prisons -- off-line information stores like the eGranary Digital Library ( a collection of approximately 30 million educational resources from more than 2, 000 Web sites and hundreds of CD-ROMs ) provide off-line access to information.
Companies like TalkingSigns and TextSpeak Systems have pioneered solutions such as TTS for Digital Signage for the Blind, that work via standard speakers and also radio receivers ( ex: BART in the SF Bay area ).
Digital compositing allows far more control and creative freedom than optical compositing, and does not degrade the image like analogue ( optical ) processes.
Digital fonts may also contain data representing the metrics used for composition, including kerning pairs, component creation data for accented characters, glyph substitution rules for Arabic typography and for connecting script faces, and for simple everyday ligatures like.
Wired co-founder Louis Rossetto claimed in the magazine's first issue that " the Digital Revolution is whipping through our lives like a Bengali typhoon ," yet despite the fact that Kelly was involved in launching the WELL, an early source of public access to the Internet and even earlier non-Internet online experience, Wireds first issue de-emphasized the Internet, and covered interactive games, cell-phone hacking, digital special effects, military simulations, and Japanese otaku.
Digital effects like filters, reverb, reversing, time stretching, and pitch shifting can be added to the beat, and even to individual sounds by themselves.
Dolby Digital audio is used on DVD-Video and other purely digital media, like home cinema.
In preparation for the album, Lauper visited England and France during summer 2007 to write for the album and wrote songs with dance artists like Axwell, The Scumfrog, Basement Jaxx, Digital Dog, Dragonette, Kleerup and others.
* MXF :: SDK was the first multiplatform commercial SDK in C ++ released in January 2003 and is being used by products like Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, Front Porch Digital DIVA, IRT MXF Analyser, Omneon ProXchange, Seachange SMG.
When an industry-wide standard called MIDI ( Musical Instrument Digital Interface ) was introduced in 1983, Clarke, like most other electronic musicians, gradually migrated to the new technology.
In 2000, Bentley made revisions to the DGN file format in V8 to add additional features like Digital Rights and Design History-a revision control ability that allows to reinstate previous revisions either globally or by selection, and to better support import / export of Autodesk's DWG format.

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