by UNOwenNYC July 25, 2011
(Didg-it-ize) :verb: To convert from analogue format to digital format. Common digitizers include drawing tablets, and digital recorders (including digital cameras and camcorders as well as pure audio recorders and scanners.)
Since anything in the real world is analogue, digitizing refers to storing this data as binary numbers. Any method which records something and saves it onto a computer is a digitizing method.
There is no implication of altering the content within a digitizing process except where technology limits the recording. For example, a picture taken with a digital camera will not be of the same resolution as reality, but rather as close an approximation as the technology allows. Just as digitizing an old record will usually drop the very top and bottom ranges of the sound.
Digitizing is always a lossy conversion because an exact approximation is not possible with such a limited amount of space for the huge amount of data analogue methods hold. Once an item is digitized, it will never lose quality on re-recordings or play back because of the method of storage. With high-quality digitizers, the difference between the original analogue source and the digital recording is not percievable by human senses.
Since anything in the real world is analogue, digitizing refers to storing this data as binary numbers. Any method which records something and saves it onto a computer is a digitizing method.
There is no implication of altering the content within a digitizing process except where technology limits the recording. For example, a picture taken with a digital camera will not be of the same resolution as reality, but rather as close an approximation as the technology allows. Just as digitizing an old record will usually drop the very top and bottom ranges of the sound.
Digitizing is always a lossy conversion because an exact approximation is not possible with such a limited amount of space for the huge amount of data analogue methods hold. Once an item is digitized, it will never lose quality on re-recordings or play back because of the method of storage. With high-quality digitizers, the difference between the original analogue source and the digital recording is not percievable by human senses.
We've digitized our family photo album to preserve the images.
I digitized some old recordings I had on records so I could play them in my cd player.
An artist was digitizing simulated brush strokes interpreted by a computer program with a drawing tablet.
I digitized some old recordings I had on records so I could play them in my cd player.
An artist was digitizing simulated brush strokes interpreted by a computer program with a drawing tablet.
by Michael Hamilton June 27, 2005
Pronounced "dig-it". US Navy slang for someone who "digs" the Navy, usually an insult. Often preceded by some sort of profanity. Digits are commonly seen with "digit tools" (leatherman's) and a flashlight on their belts, even if they never use them. Junior digits are usually ass-kissers, while senior digits generally cause their guys to work late.
by Meltonius January 18, 2009
by Digitia April 26, 2013
Also know as A Digital, someone who spends hours jacked in to the internet and or video game console. They would rather do the digital verson of somthing rather than do the real thing.
<ski> Andrew wanna go paintball with us? We will pay for you.
<Andrew>NAW!!! IM TEH UBER DIGITAL! I WOULD RATHER PLAY DIGITAL PAINT BALL CAUSE I AM TEH SCURED OF TEH REAL THING ID RATHER JUST BE DIGITAL
<Andrew>NAW!!! IM TEH UBER DIGITAL! I WOULD RATHER PLAY DIGITAL PAINT BALL CAUSE I AM TEH SCURED OF TEH REAL THING ID RATHER JUST BE DIGITAL
by Ski December 16, 2004
Being able to use digital products or format. The ability to use, teach, and comprehend anything digital.
by Gwendolyn The Informationist May 19, 2011
by Sunfish February 16, 2005