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Article: Totally digital. (innovations in consumer electronics)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- November 25, 1991
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Yut on the CD and shut your eyes: You could swear Ella is scatting in an intimate jazz club. Flip on the tube: There you are, with your family, on the screen in living color. Take a spin in the car: A digitized map can keep you from getting lost.
Digital, the language of ones and zeroes in which computers are fluent, dramatically alters the way pictures and sound are conveyed. "People get a level of quality they couldn't a few years ago," says Michael Riggs, an editor at Stereo Review. Here's a digital sampling.
* Music. Last year's arrival of digital audio tape (DAT) machines blessed music buffs with the ability to make their own recordings with the ...