http://www.avglossary.com The World's Biggest Audio, Video, and Photography Glossary. By Don Lindich Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:17:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Name brand used by Olympus on their SLR lenses and highest quality camera optics. http://www.avglossary.com/?p=504 Subscription satellite radio service sold throughout North America with over 170 stations. See Sirius Satellite Radio. http://www.avglossary.com/?p=503 See Balanced Connections. http://www.avglossary.com/?p=502 Compact memory card format used primarily in Fujifilm and Olympus digital cameras. http://www.avglossary.com/?p=501 XBR Squared, referring to the Sony KV-32XBR100, a 32 inch tube NTSC TV widely regarded as the best television of its type ever produced. The KV-32XBR100 carried its tuner and input connections in an external box had a tube that was almost perfectly flat in the front. It was introduced ... http://www.avglossary.com/?p=500 Designation for Sony’s high-end, top-quality television offerings. For a brief time the XBR line was not the top Sony television offering, that honor going to the short-lived Sony Qualia line. See Qualia. http://www.avglossary.com/?p=499 Specification used to describe speed variations.  As digital components can reproduce sound with little or no variation, wow and flutter is mostly used with analog devices such as tape decks and turntables. http://www.avglossary.com/?p=498 Low-frequency driver in a loudspeaker.  Name is derived from “woof,” the low-pitched sound of a dog barking. http://www.avglossary.com/?p=497 Wolfson is a manufacturer of digital-to-analog converters (DACs.)  Wolfson DACs are known for superior sound quality, so manufacturers using them in their components will often state “Wolfson DACs” as a selling point, assuring the customer of superior audio quality.  Wolfson Microelectronics is abased in Edinburg, U.K.  See DAC. http://www.avglossary.com/?p=496 Windows Media Video, a file format used for computer video applications.  A version of WMV 9 became VC-1, a video codec used on Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs. http://www.avglossary.com/?p=495