Philips SA1ARA16 Napster, PlaysForSure, WMA Windows Media Audio, WMV Windows Media Video

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Napster

Napster, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAPS, formerly Roxio, Inc.) is an online music service offering a variety of purchase and subscription models.

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PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) Pioneering form of digital recording.

PlaysForSure*

PlaysForSure* is a Philips GoGear feature that ensures compatibility with Windows Media Player 10 and Windows XP. The PlaysForSure* logo assures the consumer that the music purchased at an online shop with this logo is compatible with the Philips GoGear player.

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Shuffle

A feature that plays audio files (tracks) in random order.

SMV [SigmaTel Motion Video Format] A partially compressed video format by SigmaTel that allows conversion of common PC motion video files for play on a portable multimedia player.

Stereo

Literally means solid. Usually taken to refer to two channel stereo, though developments in digital audio facilitate multichannel stereo.

SuperPlay

SuperPlay™ is a special feature of the product, which enables the listener to play all the music under a top-level library category, such as artists or albums, without having to select playlist items.

SuperScroll

SuperScroll™ is a navigation feature of the double-action search keys of the product. SuperScroll™ allows easy speed control when

scrolling through large libraries to swiftly find items within large libraries. Longer press of the button results in faster scroll speed.

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Thumbnail

Athumbnail is reduced-size versions of a picture that is used to make it easier to recognize an them. Thumbnails serve the same role for images as a normal text index does for words.

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Volume

Volume is the most common word used to specify the control of relative loudness of sounds. It also pertains to the function on many electronic devices that is used to control the loudness.

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WAV

A format for sound files developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM. Built into Windows 95 to XP, which made it the de facto standard for sound on PCs. WAV sound files end with a ‘.wav’ extension and works with nearly all Windows applications that support sound.

WMA (Windows Media Audio)

An audio format owned by Microsoft, is a part of Microsoft Windows Media technology. Includes Microsoft Digital Rights Management tools, Windows Media Video encoding technology, and Windows Media Audio encoding technology.

WMV [Windows Media Video]

Refers to a video compression technology developed by Microsoft Corporation. WMV content can be encoded by using Windows Media® Encoder 9 series. Files are recognised by their file extension ‘.wmv’.

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