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 [...]
In-car TV tuners aren’t just for mini-vans and large SUV’s anymore. Technology and car audio have joined forces to make those long road trips seem enjoyable for once. With their hard work even the smallest compact car can now benefit from a drop-down screen to watch the latest DVD’s or to even watch the local [...]
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 [...]
So you’ve got a camcorder, maybe you even know how to record with it…but you have not a clue how to edit out 15 minutes of Uncle Tom Sleeping at little Timmy’s party. Maybe you’d like to remove the 5 minutes of recording with the lens cap on? Maybe you know the basics but you’re [...]