And here is a question for a digital-era debate: is anything lost by taking a picture book and converting it to an e-book?

这有一个关于数字时代的争论：把一本图画书转换成电子书，我们失去了什么吗？

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DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG, the process of converting a digital signal (binary) to a continuously variable (analog) signal that is a close approximation of the original signal.

数一模转换，将数字信号(二进制)转换成与原信号相似的连续可变(模拟)信号的处理过程。

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Cuban's bright ideas got him off to a bad start at his first job converting paper transactions to digital ones for Mellon Bank in 1980.

1980年，库班开始第一份工作，为梅隆银行将纸面交易转变为数字交易。

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The other part of it is, instead of using film and tape, so much more now is being shot on memory cards and hard drives with the latest cameras, you could easily save a couple of hundred thousand or for major feature films, a couple of millions of feet of processed film in the course of just converting to digital hard drives on this stuff.

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And it has no clear plan for converting subscribers to digital.

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Much of that investment will go toward converting shows into digital cable format, building an ad sales division and paying to beam programming cross-country by satellite.

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