- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
- Number of blossaries: 7
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
Touch-sensitive control standard on most iPods that navigates menus and settings, as well as controls music (Play/Pause, Fast-forward, Volume, etc.).
Industry:Entertainment
A type of encoding that maintains a fixed bit rate throughout a file, so that data is sent in a steady stream. Because more complex passages may be encoded with fewer than necessary bits, and relatively simple passages may be encoded with more bits than are necessary, CBR can potentially result in lower-quality sound.
Industry:Entertainment
In iTunes, the amount of time elapsed between songs. You can choose to hear songs fade one into the next with or without silence.
Industry:Entertainment
Data transmission via a fixed number of data points. Digital media includes all formats of CDs and DVDs. Digital video and audio quality is long-lasting and superior to that of analog.
Industry:Entertainment
Technology that protects the intellectual property of digital music or video files. With DRM, copyrighted material downloaded from the Web can be restricted from being freely distributed.
Industry:Entertainment
To transfer analogue media to digital media (i.e., transferring VHS to DVD).
Industry:Entertainment
An iPod setting that lets you use your PC-connected iPod as a hard drive to store data. Dock
Industry:Entertainment
DVD-R offers a write-once, read-many storage format akin to CD-R and is used to master DVD-Video and DVD-ROM discs. It is also used for data archive and storage applications.
Industry:Entertainment
A rewritable DVD format that is similar to DVD+RW. It has a read-write capacity of 4.38GB.
Industry:Entertainment
Refers to either a DVD writer that burns two layers of data onto a DVD (rather than the traditional one layer) or 8.5GB-capacity DVD media (4.7GB was previously the storage maximum). You must have both the enabled writer and the media to take advantage of the 8.5GB storage. Also called dual-layer DVD.
Industry:Entertainment
