The advantages of this unique optical playback system were that the Optigan's range of timbres was infinitely expandable and that there was no limit on the duration of a note as there was on the Optigan's professional-grade counterpart, the magnetic tape-based Mellotron.

Since the instrument was aimed at amateur players, the majority of the songs in the Optigan's music books are written in the much simpler keys of F, C and G. The Optigan certainly had its share of detractors, then as now.

The Talentmaker was taken out of the market after Optigan's manufacturer-Optigan corporation a subsidiary of toy company Mattel, threatened to sue Chilton, because of patent infringements.

The choir sound follows in second place and was taken from the Optigan's " Vox Humana " disk, as was the " Cello " sound.

In the Orchestron, the most commonly used sounds were the " violins " and " vocal choir " sounds-the choir being taken from the Optigan's " Vox Humana " disk.

Detail of the Optigan's chord buttons, special effect rocker switches, power switch, tempo adjustment wheel and stereo balance wheel.

The Optigan's songbooks were written and arranged by Optigan Corporation's music director, Johnny Largo.

When the music is stored in an audio file format that is lossless such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio or WMA Lossless, the computer playback of recorded audio can serve as an audiophile-quality source for a hi-fi system.

MMC allows a sequencer to send " Start ", " Stop ", and " Record " commands to a connected tape deck or hard disk recording system, and to fast-forward or rewind the device so that it starts playback at the same point as the sequencer.

The format was a commercial failure at the height of the Great Depression, partly because the records and playback equipment were expensive, and partly because the audio performance was poor, and it would require the smaller-radius stylus of the microgroove system to make slower-speed records track acceptably.

MiniDiscs use a mastering process and optical playback system that is very similar to CDs.

Forgent Networks has stated it is now shifting its focus to, which relates to a computer controlled video system allowing playback during recording.

The Android operating system has supported native FLAC playback since version 3. 1.

And finally, adjustments in tonal balance and playback level are made to match the specific auditorium's sound system and acoustics.

Philips responded with the digital compact cassette, a system which was backward-compatible with existing analog cassette recordings for playback, but it failed to garner a significant market share and was withdrawn.

Consequently, the original signal can be preserved to an accuracy limited only by the intrinsic noise-floor and maximum signal level of the media and the playback equipment, i. e., the dynamic range of the system.

It is an ISO-ratified standard that provides a system for the storage, retrieval and playback of real-time graphics content embedded in applications, all within an open architecture to support a wide array of domains and user scenarios.

For playback and not recording purposes, a proper analysis of typical programme levels throughout an audio system reveals that the capabilities of well-engineered 16-bit material far exceed those of the very best hi-fi systems, with the microphone noise and loudspeaker headroom being the real limiting factors.

The system suffered from incompatibility with regular stereo playback due to phase differences between the left and right channels.

The first and simplest method is using a surround sound recording microphone technique, and / or mixing-in surround sound for playback on an audio system using speakers encircling the listener to play audio from different directions.

The CX system gives a total NR effect of 20 dB, but in the interest of better compatibility for non-decoded playback, Pioneer reduced this to only 14 dB of noise reduction ( the RCA CED system used the " original " 20 dB CX system ).

This effectively reduced playback of a DTS disc on a non-DTS equipped system to mono audio — or in a handful of cases, no film soundtrack at all.

Westinghouse Electric Corporation developed a system in 1965 called Phonovid, that allowed for the playback of 400 stored still images, along with 40 minutes of sound.

The N-Gage also included MP3 and Real Audio / Video playback and PDA-like features into the system.

Since the GameCube lacked DVD playback functionality, a feature its competitors had, the system was licensed by Nintendo and was released on December 13, 2001.

YouTube streaming playback is also supported on the system through Flash light.

; Rumble: The measure of the low frequency ( many tens of Hz ) noise contributed by the turntable of an analogue playback system.

* ReplayGain, a system to normalize the perceived loudness of audio playback

The product also has a disadvantage in that if one function ( DVD or VHS ) becomes unusable, the entire unit must be replaced or repaired, though later models of DVD / VCR which suffered from DVD playback lag still functioned with the VCR.

Pits are much closer to the label side of a disc, enabling defects and contaminants on the clear side to be out of focus during playback.

Consumer applications ( as in home use ) are considerably less demanding due to much smaller listening space and lower playback levels.

Offering high quality and instant playback at a much lower cost, Quadruplex tape quickly replaced kinescope as the primary means of recording television broadcasts.

To remedy this problem, the vast majority of Nakamichi dual-capstan decks contain a " cage " around the record / playback heads that lifts the pressure pad out of the way so that the deck itself — specifically, the dual capstan mechanism — is able to maintain much more consistent tape tension and tape / head contact during playback.

Hard-disk based digital video recorders make the " time shifting " feature ( traditionally done by a VCR ) much more convenient, and also allow for " trick modes " such as pausing live TV, instant replay of interesting scenes, chasing playback where a recording can be viewed before it has been completed, and skipping of advertising.

However, as this format was designed for playback ( e. g. by sequencers ) rather than notation, it only produces approximate results and much notational information is lost in the process

To filter this noise, the high-frequency response of theatre playback systems was deliberately curtailed … To make matters worse, to increase dialogue intelligibility over such systems, sound mixers were recording soundtracks with so much high-frequency pre-emphasis that high distortion resulted.

As the technologies get smaller and easier to use, the capture, recording, and playback of everyday life gets that much easier.

According to audiophiles, the quality of the playback is very much dependent upon how one is able to pick out different instruments, voices, vocal parts, and such exactly where they are located on an imaginary 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional field.

Further driving the VHS format was its inherent two-hour playback time ( SP speed )-a much better fit for Hollywood movies than Betamax's one-hour limitation.

The changes included much faster performance thanks to an upgrade to SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey and rendering improvements, and support for the and tags as defined in the HTML 5 specification, with a goal to offer video playback without being encumbered by patent problems associated with many video technologies.

Bhupendra appeared on the screen as well for the first time, much before he established himself as a playback singer.

Digital recordings are considered higher quality than analog recordings not necessarily because they have higher fidelity ( wider frequency response or dynamic range ), but because the digital format can prevent much loss of quality found in analog recording due to noise and electromagnetic interference in playback, and mechanical deterioration or damage to the storage medium.

The HPET can produce periodic interrupts at a much higher resolution than the RTC and is often used to synchronize multimedia streams, providing smooth playback and reducing the need to use other timestamp calculations such as an X86-based CPU's RDTSC instruction.

For this reason, home cinema enthusiasts who invest in larger, higher quality screens often complain about the amount of edge enhancement present in commercially produced DVD videos, claiming that such edge enhancement is optimized for playback on smaller, poorer quality television screens, but the loss of detail as a result of the edge enhancement is much more noticeable in their viewing conditions.