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Stack Ch10-2 MIDI to Video Capture Card

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How does MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) do with music?   A set of standards that are used to represent music in digital form. MIDI is a method of digitally describing and storing every individual note played by each individual instrument used in making music.  
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What does a minicartridge have to do with a tape drive?   A tape drive cartridge that is only 3 x2 x inches. It is small enough to allow two drives to fit into a standard 5 -inch drive bay of a PC case.  
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Whats an MP3 used for?   A method to compress audio files that uses MPEG level 1. It can reduce sound files as low as a 1:24 ratio without losing much sound quality.  
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Whats a pits do on a CD/DVD?   Recessed areas on the surface of a CD or DVD, separating lands, or flat areas. Lands and pits are used to represent data on a disc.  
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What does sequential access do with tape drives?   A method of data access used by tape drives, whereby data is written or read sequentially from the beginning to the end of the tape or until the desired data is found.  
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What kind of device is a solid-state device (SSD)?   A storage device that uses memory chips to store data instead of spinning disks (such as those used by hard drives and CD drives). Examples of solidstate devices are jump drives (also called key drives or thumb drives).  
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solid-state disk (SSD) is another term for?   Another term for solid-state device  
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What is surround sound?   A sound compression standard that supports six separate sound channels using six speakers known as Front Left and Right, Front Center, Rear Left and Right, and Subwoofer. Surround Sound 7.1 supports two additional rear or side speakers.  
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What does a TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) have to do with photographs?   A bitmapped file format used to hold photographs, graphics, and screen captures. TIFF files can be rather large, and have a .tif file extension.  
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What does a TV tuner card do?   Can turn your computer into a television.  
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What kind of file system is a UDF (Universal Disk Format) file system?   A file system for optical media used by all DVD discs and some CD-R and CD-RW discs.  
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What does video capture card do? (Hint: You can use this on your xbox to record machinimas)   Lets you capture this video input and save it to a file on your hard drive.  
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