Audio / Video Guide

Video Television Home Theater Camcorders Digital Cameras DVD recorder DVD player TIVO, DVR Video Cassette Recorder - VCR Laserdisc player Audio Minidisc recorder MP3 players CD player Audio Receiver SACD Player Loudspeakers Audio Cassette recorder CD recorder Reel to reel tape recorder Vinyl Record Turntable Cables & Connections Audio Video Connections Media: Magnetic Tape Video Tape Audio Tape Optical Disc CD | SACD | VCD | LD DVD | DVD-A | HD-DVD | HVD MiniDisc Magnetic Disk Microdrive Microelectronic Solid state

• Site Map  Home Glossary HDTV DVD CD MP3 Introduction to Audio / Video  How to hookup a camcorder to a TV  What is High Definition TV?  What is home theater all about?  Should I buy a digital camera?  What new technologies are coming?  What is a MiniDisc?  How can I record TV shows to DVD?  What is MP3?  iPod Music Players  What is Surround Sound? We live in a very exciting and innovative time for audio and video. High-definition television is becoming an established fact and is likely to replace analog television. Television screens are getting larger and wider, while the sets themselves get thinner and thinner, all of which may spell the ultimate demise of the cathode ray tube (CRT)-based TV set. The adoption of HDTV means that HD-DVD, both for playback and recording, is inevitable. In fact, all video recording mediums, DVD, tape and hard-disk PVR-based are becoming HD-compatible. Digital connections such as DVI, HDMI and FireWire are replacing the 50-year-old RCA connectors. Consumers have adopted the concept of home theater with multi-channel sound. Our biggest lifestyle shift may be to a world without wires. Wireless Bluetooth connections slowly are becoming common between PCs and accessories and PDAs, between cell phones and headsets, and even between camcorders and the internet. That spaghetti tangle of audio and video interconnects behind your home equipment stack may soon disappear as well. And satellites ringing our planet provide all manner of wireless audio and video communications services. While the music industry grapples with piracy, the suddenly cumbersome store-bought jewel-cased CD may well be replaced by streaming audio and downloads and solid state storage and playback devices. New hard disk-based home audio servers can store and distribute entire music collections in multiple streams to multiple locations around the house or, via the Internet, the world. The pocket-sized portable MP3 player quickly is replacing portable CD and tape cassette players. Hard disk storage space, battery life and capacity, and microprocessor speeds double every year. Flat screens are growing bigger and brighter, wireless networks getting faster and more robust, digital audio and video progressing more each year.

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