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Home entertainment: digital dominates.
Digital technology dominates today's home-entertainment choices. Traditional analog techniques of recording images on film or displaying them on a bulky tube TV are taking a back seat to a flood of newer digital devices that use computer chips to create, store, and play images and sounds. As a result, consumers face an expanding menu of home-entertainment options, with a technical vocabulary to match. But it's worth the effort to go digital because you'll find greater convenience and capability at prices that keep dropping.
Two developments reflect the trend toward digital entertainment. A number of manufacturers have discontinued production of film cameras, and sales of digital televisions now surpass those of analog sets. It's not likely that the old analog standbys will disappear completely, though. For some purists, digital photography will never offer the delicacy and range that film cameras do. And analog TVs still have a following, contributing to brisk sales of low-priced, smaller sets. Nonetheless, digital is clearly here to stay.
Even where new and older-style home-entertainment technologies coexist, most of the attention is focused on digital. In video cameras, digital models far outnumber analog offerings. Digital audio players, with their MP3 files, quickly replaced CD players as best-selling portable music sources. With a cutoff date for all analog broadcasts looming in 2009, new TVs must have digital tuners (unless they're among the few TV monitors with no tuner of any ...
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