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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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pixel

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

Contraction of "Picture Element". The smallest element of data in an image that can, independently, be assigned a colour. A digital photograph, for example, may be composed of ...

resolution

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

A measure of the level of clarity, or definition, that you can expect in a digital image. The resolution of a digital photo frame is often expressed as the total number of ...

thin film transistor (TFT)

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

Usually made from amorphous silicon, or "a-Si", this controls the on/off voltage to each pixel of an active matrix LCD screen. The fact that each pixel is controlled by its own ...

contrast

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

The ratio of the light intensity, or luminance, of an object to that of its surroundings, or background; in other words, the difference in brightness between the lightest and the ...

universal serial bus (USB)

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

A protocol for transferring data between digital devices. Many digital cameras and memory card readers are equipped with a USB port for connection to a computer. USB offers higher ...

compactflash

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

A small, lightweight, removable memory storage card, popular in digital cameras. CompactFlash cards are durable, operate at low voltages and are non-volatile, that is, any data ...

digital

Consumer electronics; Digital photo frame

A method of recording, storing, transmitting or reproducing video, or sound, by sampling an analogue signal and converting those samples into a series of electronic pulses ...