Audio Technology

MP3 Player Reviews
To understand most MP3 Reviews you will need to understand just what you most want from it- and then you can choose the player for you. Choosing an MP3 player is difficult enough and going on price alone is unlikely to make you satisfied with your purchase. MP3 Player information- the following factors should be [...]

Choosing audio speakers
Choosing speakers for your home whether for a stand-alone HI-FI stereo system, a home cinema system or a surround sound system is a really crucial decision affecting your listening pleasure. The speakers moderate the sound to your ears and so you need to listen to speakers and find the ones you like best. Speakers are [...]

Home Audio Systems
Home audio has been at the front of some of the greatest developments in technology. First there were the first record players in the 1960’s then the more sophisticated hi-fi audio systems of the 1980s, and through the rise and fall of audio tape and CD players, there has been constant development. Home audio has [...]

Audio visual equipment – Hi Fi Surround sound
At one time it was amazing just to hear scratchy wheezy sounds played from a wax disk, then even more amazing to hear much clearer sounds from a vinyl record played on your record deck. Then came the marvel of stereo speakers and a whole new range of audio sources and equipment to play them [...]
Visual Technology
The rise of digital TV
Digital Television (DTV) uses digital signals to transmit audio and video information, unlike the older technology of analog signals used by analog television. The UK, like many other countries are supplanting their analog television systems by digital over a period of time. This is so that the extensive radio bandwidth used by the analog system [...]

Blu-ray technology explained
Blu-ray is a format for high definition DVD. More and more people are upgrading to – or have already upgraded their TV to a LCD or plasma TV which will most probably be capable of displaying the latest high definition (HD) pictures. High Definition TVs playing HD content display brighter colours, far crisper images and [...]

Audio visual equipment – Hi Fi Surround sound
At one time it was amazing just to hear scratchy wheezy sounds played from a wax disk, then even more amazing to hear much clearer sounds from a vinyl record played on your record deck. Then came the marvel of stereo speakers and a whole new range of audio sources and equipment to play them [...]
TV Technology
The rise of digital TV
Digital Television (DTV) uses digital signals to transmit audio and video information, unlike the older technology of analog signals used by analog television. The UK, like many other countries are supplanting their analog television systems by digital over a period of time. This is so that the extensive radio bandwidth used by the analog system can be re-used for other transmissions.
A number of technologies have developed to deliver digital television. There are x different services available for consumers. Firstly, Digital terrestrial television includes around 100 television and radio services, some of them interactive, able to be accessed by a standard TV aerial. Most of them are free-to-air. They are often referred to as Freeview, the brand name of the broadcasters of these services. The programmes are received through a Freeview box. Then there are digital television services delivered via a satellite signal into a satellite box, and those delivered by underground cables into the home with a cable TV management box.
Growing more popular is the fourth alternative method of receiving digital TV services – Internet Protocol television. This is a system using specialised electronic components and software connected to the internet via a computer.
Latest developments of digital television services include not only live television viewing and interactive TV, but also time-shifted storing of programmes to view them later and high definition services.