Before we can understand digital audio, we must first have a very general understanding of how sound occurs naturally. Sound is actually a mechanical wave that is propagating through the air (typically, but it can travel through other mediums as well). A basic visual illustration of sound is the sine wave. A sine wave a [...]
The debate continues as to whether or not landline communications are on their way out. Many of us, myself included, have forgone the use of the landline telephone altogether in favor of the more convenient mobile phone usage. While this in no way lends itself to receiving cheap phone calls, it does allow the complete [...]
Here are types of audio cables for your home theater system. And comments about the pros and cons of each are discusses for our review. Coax Digital Audio (S/PDIF) – This offers digital connection with copper cables, most generally Coax. Cables are long. And Dolby Digital 5.1, 7.1, DTS etc. is supported. However, the copper [...]
The Personal Video Recorder replaces your VCR Don’t things move quickly nowadays? It seems only yesterday that the first VCRs became available and changed the way that we used our TVs forever. Now it seems that you will soon have to replace all your old analog TV equipment including your VCR with digital TV receivers [...]
Take it from me. I’ve been on long family road trips. We do some stretches up 20 hours at a time. Yes, I know, 20 hours cramped in a mini-van does not sound like fun. But we get through it without problems. You might ask, how??? One easy solution! We have a DVD mobile system [...]