Exam 7: Personal Technology: the Future Is You

Basically,digital music players can be divided into those that have hard-disk drives for storage and those that have ________ for storage; some players have both.

The downside of personalization is people feel overburdened with too much choice,so that they are likely to ________.

A smartphone's OS is stored in its _________ memory.

What is the phenomenon known as convergence or digital convergence?

Texting and SMS are the same thing.

The major U.S.satellite radio company is ________.

________ is a format that allows audio files to be compressed so they are small enough to be sent over the Internet and / or stored as digital files on a mobile device.

Digital convergence combines several industries,including:

Millions of _______ are tightly packed together on a digital camera's image sensor (a silicon chip); when light strikes them,an electrical current is generated that is converted into the digital data that becomes your photograph.

_________ have a greater capability of damaging users' hearing than headphones do.

High-definition television (HDTV)works with digital broadcasting signals and has a wider screen and higher resolution than standard analog television.

The small _______ screen on a digital camera allows you to review all the photos that you have taken.

Pandora,iHeart,and Slacker are examples of _________.

Satellite radio combines digital and analog broadcast signals,enabling stations to offer an analog main channel and digital "sidebands" so that multiple types of content can be broadcast from the same position on the dial.

Instead of being stored on film,the images in a digital camera are usually stored on ________ cards inside the camera; they come in various formats and storage capacities.

The ________ is the eye-level optical glass device on many cameras that,when you look through it,shows the image to be photographed.

The number of megapixels a digital camera has is the only factor affecting photographic quality.

Describe some of the societal effects of PMPs.

________ is a tablet PC.

How do satellite and hybrid digital radio differ?