Exam 1: Digital Content

In a digital camera, a charge-coupled device's (CCD's) ________ correspond(s) to pixels.

3D graphics are based on vectors stored as a set of instructions describing the coordinates for lines and shapes in a three-dimensional space.What do these vectors form?

Data ____________ refers to any technique that recodes the data in a file so that it contains fewer bits.

Which of the following tools would be found in 3D graphics software?

__________ is the process by which machines produce sound that resembles spoken words.

A(n) _______ is the software that compresses a video stream when a video is stored and decompresses the file when the video is played.

Digital photographs are stored as bitmap files.

A group of eight bits is called a _______.

Both scanners and digital cameras produce vector graphics.

TIFF, PNG, and GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) graphics formats offer lossy compression.

Digital video is a core technology for which of the following?

Transcoding digital videos does not cause a loss of quality.

ASCII text files contain formatting.

Vector graphics file size does not depend on the size and complexity of the image.

MIDI files are less compact than digital audio files.

The _______ number system allows digital devices to represent virtually any number simply by using 0s and 1s.

When 4:3 videos are displayed in a widescreen player, they are bordered by the black bars of a(n) _______.

A vector graphic consists of a set of instructions for creating a picture.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) requires __________ bits for each character.

Digital videos look sharpest when they are displayed at a resolution that is larger than the frame size.