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In digital recording, audio signals picked up by a microphone or other transducer or video signals picked up by a camera or similar device are converted into a stream of discrete numbers, representing the changes over time in air pressure for audio, and chroma and luminance values for video, then recorded to a storage device. To play back a digital sound recording, the numbers are retrieved and converted back into their original analog waveforms so that they can be heard through a loudspeaker. To play back a digital video recording, the numbers are retrieved and converted back into their original analog waveforms so that they can be viewed on a video monitor, television or other display.
Usage examples of "digital recording".
Canned calves brains packed in caul fat on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, hyena-print sarongs in northern Minnesota, and sophisticated digital recording equipment in Shreve-port would send the entire system wobbling on its axis.
Raman owned a digital recording system, and again there was a punch code programmed in by the manufacturer.
From a digital recording, I played a sequence of tones, two of which can't be produced with a standard phone.
Each was hooked up to a digital recording system that burned DVDs twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, just in case any of the material was found to be needed somewhere down the line.
There was only her perfect life before Spalko had played the digital recording and the disaster it had become after he'd played it.
The lights dimmed a bit, the general took a digital recording from the envelope and slipped it into the projector.
Listening to the Bynar was like revving up an old digital recording from centuries back on a machine that skipped and lurched from one section to the next.
If we had a digital recording on which the Earth's population could be read off at each instant, the units figure would be flipping up new digits at more than twice the rate that the seconds figure would change on a digital watch.