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2 unusual facts about Analog


Analog-to-digital timeline

December 1975, Still image: Kodak engineer Steven Sasson creates the first digital camera, weighing eight pounds and saving images to a cassette tape.

Fernando von Reichenbach

Catalina or graphic analog converter (1967): capable of synthesizing sounds following an analog score by a video camera.


Bruno Putzeys

Current activities include designing high-performance discrete AD/DA converters and analogue signal processing circuits, DSP algorithms, class D power amplifiers and switch-mode power supplies.

C-Netz

The Radio Telephone Network C (German: Funktelefonnetz-C, abbreviated as C-Netz), was a first generation analog cellular phone system deployed and operated in Germany (at first West Germany) by DeTeMobil (formerly of Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, currently Deutsche Telekom).

Cortège for Rosenbloom

The transcendental naturalism of some of Colin McGinn's work, which construes the mind-body connection (the `world knot') as a natural feature of homo sapiens but `cognitively closed' to our epistemic horizons, is a philosophical analog of this outlook.

Dbx Model 700 Digital Audio Processor

In general, any high-quality VHS VCR would do, although 3/4" U-matic or Beta decks could also have been used. If viewed on a monitor, the output stream of a Model 700 looked like analog TV "static" or noise, with slight black bars running down either side.

Electronic instrument cluster

For example, while an analog speedometer can theoretically display an infinite number of speeds, digital speedometers generally display speeds in whole numbers.

Electronics World

Robotics, Communications, Connectors, Amplifiers, Embedded Design, Filters, Power, Test & Measurement, RF and Microwave Design, Touchscreen and Display Technologies, Microcontrollers, Systems and Components in Green Energy generation, Designing with Programmable Logic, Designing with Sensors, Audio, Analog Design, Medical Electronics, Signal Processing

Enocitabine

Enocitabine (INN, marketed under the brand name Sunrabin) is a nucleoside analog used as chemotherapy.

Erwin Hochmair

He worked as a research associate at Marshall Space Flight Center, in the U.S. from 1970 to 1972 where he designed analog integrated circuits in CMOS technology.

Fostex Foundation 2000

On the back of the system, a variety of connectivity options were available such as analog audio, coaxial/XLR/toslink optical connectors for input and output, SCSI (for external hard drives or tape backup units), various sync sources (video/SMPTE/etc), MIDI, and RS-422 ports for remote controlling the Foundation 2000 from other devices, or using the it to control other devices.

Freedom Party

Freedom Party (Harry Turtledove), in the American Empire and Settling Accounts series of novels, a fictional analog of the Nazis in the Confederate States of America.

Gregory Charvat

Charvat has authored or co-authored numerous journals, proceedings, magazine articles, and seminars on topics including applied electromagnetics, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and phased array radar systems, radio frequency (RF) and analog design.

Hybrid computer

Signals pass across the synapses from one nerve cell to the next as discrete (digital) packets of chemicals, which are then summed within the nerve cell in an analog fashion by building an electro-chemical potential until its threshold is reached, whereupon it discharges and sends out a series of digital packets to the next nerve cell.

Image Constraint Token

If any components in the display chain do not support HDCP (such as a display connected to the player through analog connections like component, composite or S-Video) and the ICT flag is enabled, the player automatically reduces the high-definition video to the resolution of 960x540 pixels before outputting it.

Juncosamine

Juncosamine is an analog of the hallucinogenic N-benzylphenethylamine 25B-NBOMe and was discovered in 2011 by Jose Juncosa in the group of David E. Nichols at Purdue University.

K02RB-D

On May 6, 2009, the station was switched to an analog translator of KHIZ-DT 44 in Barstow, California.

K26KJ

Please note that since 1984 until June 12, 2009, the analog channel 26 was occupied by th full-power Univision-affiliate KINT-DT, the another station now broadcasts on digital channel 25 (Virtual Channel 26.1).

KBAK

KBAK-TV, a television station (channel 29 analog/33 digital) licensed to Bakersfield, California, United States

KEYU

KEYU, known locally as Univisión Amarillo or Univisión 41, is a Spanish-language television station in Borger, Texas, serving the Amarillo market on digital channel 31 as an affiliate of Univision, and on analog low-power station KEYU-LP channel 41.

KFYO

KTTZ-TV, a television station (channel 5 analog/39 digital) licensed to Lubbock, Texas, United States, which formerly used the call sign KFYO-TV

KION

KION-TV, a television station (channel 46 analog/32 digital) licensed to Monterey, California, United States

KJWP

This was likely because it was sandwiched between KBCI-TV in Boise (now KBOI-TV), KTWO-TV in Casper, KTVQ in Billings, Montana, and KUTV in Salt Lake City; the channel 2 analog signal traveled a very long distance under normal conditions.

KJZZ

KJZZ-TV, a television station (channel 14 analog/46 digital) licensed to Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

KMPH

KMPH-TV, a television station (channel 26 analog/28 digital) licensed to serve Visalia, California, United States

KPAR

KTXS-TV, a television station (channel 12 analog/20 digital) licensed to Sweetwater, Texas, United States, which held the call sign KPAR-TV from 1956 to 1966

KSHV

KSHV-TV, a television station (channel 45 analog/44 digital) licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

KTSM

KTSM-TV, a television station (channel 9 analog/16 digital) licensed to El Paso, Texas, United States

KVAL

KVAL-TV, a television station (channel 13 analog/25 digital) licensed to Eugene, Oregon, United States

KVFD

KVFD-TV, a defunct television station (analog 21 and 50) in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States

MDEA

MDEA (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-ethylamphetamine), C12H17NO2, an analog of MDMA

Montel's theorem

For example, the first version of Montel's theorem stated above is the analog of Liouville's theorem, while the second version corresponds to Picard's theorem.

OverDrive, Inc.

OverDrive was founded in 1986, and initially converted analog media to digital formats such as interactive diskettes and CD-ROMs.

Tour bus service

TV monitors connected to DVD player or VCR to provide entertainment or possibly analog TV or DTV for local news or programs (possibly in seats with viewer choosing what station).

Untethered

Untethered regimen, a technique combining the use of an insulin pump with a slow-acting insulin analog

Videocipher

ABC and Fox used Viewguard as well on their analog network feeds to their affiliate stations shortly before switching to digital satellite distribution in 2005 (for ABC) and 2004 (for Fox).

WATC-DT

It has also received a construction permit for a fill-in broadcast translator in Union City, Georgia (southwestern metro Atlanta) on channel 36, which was vacated by analog WATL TV.

WCNC

WCNC-TV, a television station (channel 36 analog/22 digital) licensed to Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

WCTI

WCTI-TV, an ABC affiliated television station (channel 12 analog/48 digital) licensed to New Bern, North Carolina, United States

WFSU

WFSU-TV, a television station (channel 11 analog/32 digital) licensed to Tallahassee, Florida, United States

WGGN-TV

WGGN-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 52, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.

WISN

WISN-TV, a television station (channel 12 analog/34 digital) licensed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

WJJA

WMLW-TV, a television station (channel 49 analog/48 digital) licensed to Racine, Wisconsin, United States, which held the call sign WJJA from June 1983 to April 2008

WJZ

WABC-TV, a television station (channel 7 analog/digital) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which used the call sign WJZ-TV from 1948 to 1953

WMFD-TV

WMFD-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 68, on June 16, 2008, eight months before the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (February 17, 2009, before the transition date was moved to June 12); the early conversion was done as part of final upgrades to its digital transmitter facilities.

WNHC

WTNH, a television station (channel 8 analog/10 digital) licensed to New Haven, Connecticut, United States, which held the call sign WNHC-TV from 1948 to 1971

WPCH

WPCH-TV, a television station (channel 17 analog/20 digital) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States

WRAL

WRAL-TV, a television station (channel 5 analog/48 digital) licensed to Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

WRDW

WRDW-TV, a television station (channel 12 analog/31 digital) licensed to serve Augusta

WSYR

WSYR-TV, a television station (channel 9 analog/17 digital) licensed to Syracuse, New York, United States

WTCN

KARE, a television station (channel 11 analog/35 digital) licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, which held the call sign WTCN-TV from September 1953 to July 1985

WTSD-CA

On June 22, 2007 WTSD-CA resumed analog transmission at Christiana, Delaware facilities.


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