Technology Connections
Season 4 Episode 24 - Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound
2015
Documentary, Comedy
These days, listening to music on the analog formats of old has seen a massive resurgence. Whether it’s cassettes or vinyl, it seems analog is in and mp3’s are out. But digital sound is pretty freaking neat! This video discusses how it works and is the launching point for this, the final videos on sound reproduction.
Episodes in Season 4
1
Roller Coaster Safety: How to Manage Too Many Trains at Once
2
Laserdisc: An Introduction
3
Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks
4
Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong
5
Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter)
6
Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution
7
Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
8
A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness
9
DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
10
Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It
11
The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301
12
These Are Not Pixels: Revisited
13
The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200
14
The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
15
Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS
16
MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
17
Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test
18
The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?
19
The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
20
The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion
21
The Most Common EV Charging Misconception
22
Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder
23
The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
24
Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound
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25
Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound
26
The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector
27
The Compact Disc: An Introduction
28
Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music
29
LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of
30
An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player
31
CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips)
32
TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup
33
CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...
34
The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed
35
LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner
36
LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish
37
Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know
38