The idea of this Vivo X1 is that BBK wants to take audio very seriously on its new flagship phone, which is why it's been given a Cirrus Logic CS4398 digital-analog converter plus a CS8422 sample-rate converter -- a combo that's seemingly popular amongst Hi-Fi connoisseurs and manufacturers.
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It then either sends that signal straight to your own electronics or uses its own superb digital-to-analog converter to decode it.
In order to implement his design, Pascal had to design and custom manufacture a digital-to-analog video converter board using direct-to-PCB inkjet printing.
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Therefore, great digital-to-analog design will almost always produce great profits.
Case in point: the Icon iDo integrated digital-to-analog converter (also called a DAC) and integrated amplifier is geared specifically toward Apple portable devices like the iPhone and iPad.
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As a test, I downloaded files from HDtracks.com, an online retailer specializing in hi-res audio, plugged a device known as a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) into my computer and listened over earphones.
V-MODA's analog noise isolation naturally blocks out the distractions of jet engines, outside noise and booth monitors minus the extra digital-to-analog conversions of battery powered headphones that pollute the purity of your music.
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Studio-grade components, which include external digital-to-analog converters (DACs) that deliver 127dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), sockets for swappable Op-Amps, a high-end 80mW into 600 ohm headphone amplifier, and 192kHz pass through, are used to deliver phenomenal audio quality.
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First, the A500: this guy sports a 16-inch, 16:9 format display (1366 x 768), a TV-tuner for both analog and digital DVB-T programming, Harman Kardon speakers and HDMI ports with REGZA LINK technology.
After ten years of painstaking development, an industry-backed outfit called Ibiquity Digital is about to begin enabling CD-quality digital broadcasts alongside today's analog transmissions (see graphic).
The HP DreamScreen's built-in clock feature can show time in digital or analog format with dual time-zones and lets users choose tones or music for alarms.
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Patriot missile components including advanced radar waveguides, microwave devices, high-speed analog to digital converters, microprocessors, precision gimbals for the missile-seeker system, highly miniaturized radio frequency communications, on-board sensors, advanced signal-processing systems.
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While developed markets have not only introduced digital terrestrial and largely completed analog switch-off, a second generation of digital broadcast (DVB-T2) is now being adopted in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
The new Z-Base sound bars offer two analog audio inputs, one optical (toslink) digital input, one coaxial digital input - plus a front panel 3.5mm analog stereo input for convenient connection of an iPod or other portable audio device.
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They have been headed in that direction for several years--in 2006, digital sets will outsell analog sets at a ratio by a two-to-one ratio, the Consumer Electronics Association estimates--but the new law will accelerate that trend.
Neil Young is working on analog digital sound-- sound that was intended to be heard as he made it.
The current versions are not capable of exploiting the leading-edge cell-phone technology known as 3G, a high-speed offering that follows the original analog and second-generation digital systems.
First there was analog, then digital - standard-definition, then high-definition (HDTV).
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Only a few of these modular components have been designed so far: the AVR-X (an Arduino-compatible microcontroller), FRAM-X (512 byte chunks of stackable Ferroelectric RAM) and ADC-X (an 8-channel analog to digital converter).
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Videotron is a leader in new technologies with its interactive Digital TV service and its broadband network, which supports high-speed cable Internet access, analog and digital cable television, and other services.
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It makes digital signal processors, analog and mixed-signal circuits and algorithms for voice isolation and noise suppression.
People always criticize the quality loss in the analog-to-digital conversion but few consider the advantages of reversing the process.
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Those charges are funneled en masse through a single analog-to-digital converter, which outputs each pixel's value in ones and zeros.
The analog-to-digital switch was actually mandated by an act of Congress in 2005 and signed into law early last year.
In the face of record deficits, ballooning entitlement costs and an indefinite war, the government plans to subsidize part of the analog-to-digital switch.
With digital and analog inputs, an easy-to-read-and-stack control console and a wireless remote, the Logitech Surround Sound Speakers Z906 let you take charge of your entertainment.
The legislation also describes the right to "plug the analog hole, " which means inserting "watermark detectors" in all devices that perform analog-to-digital conversions enabling "features" like shutting off your camcorder when pointed at your television.
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Pixim's innovation is to give each pixel its own analog-to-digital converter so that photons are continuously converted to ones and zeros and the camera's microprocessor can tell exactly how fast each pixel is filling up relative to the other pixels.
The explanation, according to Consumers Union's Joel Kelsey: The federal government, which mandated the switch from old-style analog broadcasting to digital and set the cutoff date, hasn't spent much to inform the public about how to deal with the switch.
All three perform the same basic function -- they let you stream TV from your cable box (digital or analog), satellite receiver, or DVR to a computer or mobile device -- it's just that each is aimed at different segments of the market.
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