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Consumer electronics

A broad field of electronics that are purchased for casual use or entertainment rather than for professional use; such as TVs, VCRS, DVD players,mp3 players, hi fi stereos, games consoles as well as Internet appliances.

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memory card

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

All digital cameras store photographs on some kind of digital storage medium, and the most common type is a small, removable memory card. Memory cards are available is a number of ...

memory stick

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

Used to describe a family of removable, flash memory formats launched by Sony. Memory Stick is a memory card, roughly the same size as a single stick of chewing gum, and, like the ...

active matrix

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

Describes the use of transistors, or diodes, to control the voltage supplied to each pixel of a ("Liquid Crystal Display") screen. Active matrix produces brighter, sharper images ...

multi-media card (MMC)

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

A flash memory card, used in some digital cameras and MP3 players. Multi-Media Card is identical in size and shape to "Secure Digital". See "Secure Digital".

ambient light

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

The light already existing, naturally, in a scene, or surrounding a subject, in an indoor or outdoor setting, not caused by any artificial illumination.

motion pictures experts group layer 3 (MP3)

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

A form of digital audio compression, which removes sounds that are duplicated, or imperceptible to the human ear, from audio files, and therefore reduces their size – possibly by ...

bluetooth

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

The name given to a radio technology, adopted by Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Toshiba, for the transmission of signals, wirelessly, over short distances between telephones, ...