Exam 7: Personal Technology: the Future Is You

High-definition TV has a higher resolution and uses a wider screen than standard-definition TV and uses much more bandwidth.

________ refers to the wide set of technologies that enable viewers to select videos or TV programs from a central Internet server to watch when they want.

E-readers are useful as multipurpose devices,and tablets are better for reading.

A tablet computer is a portable combination of a smartphone and a laptop computer with wireless connections and a multitouch screen.

PMPs are mostly of two types-music players and media players-but much of what they can do can also be done on today's _________.

The combining of several industries-computers,communications,consumer electronics,entertainment,and mass media-through various devices that exchange data in digital form is known as digital ________.

A digital camera uses both film and a light-sensitive processor chip.

Digital music players,such as the iPod,use one or both of the following file storage technologies: ________ and ________.

A smartphone is actually a radio.

A camera,either film or digital,that automatically adjusts settings such as exposure and focus is a ________ camera.

Loss of privacy is not an issue as a result of digital convergence.

MP3,a digital format used on portable media players that allows files to be compressed,is a video compression technology.

________ TV lets you give responses to and get responses from the TV show that you are watching.

Videogame consoles use the same CPUs and operating systems as desktop computers.

Using a smartphone to send short messages to another smartphone or other handheld device is called ________.

A digital camera's images are stored on ________.

A digital camera's resolution is expressed in ________.

The principle tablet operating systems are Apple's iOS,Google's Android,and Microsoft Windows RT.

What's the difference between a point-and-shoot camera and a single-lens reflex camera?

_________ is the continuous streaming of audio over the Internet.