avglossary.com

Zuiko

karen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:29:54 +0000

Name brand used by Olympus on their SLR lenses and highest quality camera optics.

XM Satellite Radio

karen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:27:11 +0000

Subscription satellite radio service sold throughout North America with over 170 stations. See Sirius Satellite Radio.

XLR Connections

karen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:26:33 +0000

See Balanced Connections.

xD Picture Card

karen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:25:45 +0000

Compact memory card format used primarily in Fujifilm and Olympus digital cameras.

XBR2

karen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:24:42 +0000

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 in 1994 and sold for over $3,000 at the time (remarkable considering the same sum gets you a very large HDTV in 2007.)

XBR

karen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:24:07 +0000

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.

Wow and Flutter

karen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:23:30 +0000

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.

Woofer

karen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:22:51 +0000

Low-frequency driver in a loudspeaker. Name is derived from “woof,” the low-pitched sound of a dog barking.

Wolfson

karen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:22:03 +0000

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.

WMV

karen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:21:29 +0000

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.