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Jargon Buster - C

CCD
Charged Coupling Device. The digital camera equivalent of film, converts light into electrical current.

CDR/RW Playback
Used to explain that the CD player or DVD player will accept disks produced on a PC or home CD recorder.

Compact Flash
One of the several card storage systems that uses a plug-in cartridge in order to save pictures from the camera`s memory to a portable storage device.

Component Video
Used to send very high quality signals from a DVD player to a Television. Higher quality than SCART but carries video signal only, a separate cable must be used to carry sound.

Composite Video
This is the video signal that travels along a standard (yellow ended) phono cable or inside a scart lead.

Compression
CD music is recorded in PCM which is non compressed and therefore requires more storage space. Compression formats such as MP3, ATRAC, AAC and WMA are used to reduce file size and increase the amount of music that can be stored.

CRT
Stands for Cathode Ray Tube, which is the proper term for the tube in a conventional television.