Creative NOMAD JUKEBOX 3 Manual page 87

Creative Sound
Blaster Audigy
CreativeLink
Digital audio
Docking device
DRM
With the onboard 24-bit Analog-to-Digital Convertor (ADC) and Digital-to-Analog
Converter (DAC), the Sound Blaster Audigy card delivers high-definition sound of
astounding quality with 96 kHz SPDIF support. The Sound Blaster Audigy card,
with its Audigy processor, is four times as powerful as its nearest competitor. This
enables awesome EAX ADVANCED HD™ technologies for your games and music
listening experience.
The SB1394 port provides easy high-speed connectivity to NOMAD portable digital
audio players, external CD-RW drives and other IEEE 1394 compatible devices like
DV Camcorders, printers, scanners and digital still cameras. You can connect your
player to the Audigy's SB1394 jack, without using a separate IEEE 1394 interface
card.
A unique type of interface for use with other Creative devices.
When you convert sound waves into binary data (0s and 1s), you are creating
digital audio. Using proper cables (for example, optical cables) with a standard
encoding bitrate usually results in a perfect copy of the original, with no
degradation or noise. See "Analog audio" on page A-1 for a comparison.
Depending on the manufacturer's intention, a docking device can be used for:
• charging a device (like a mobile phone's desktop charger)
• enhancing a device (like the Creative Docking Station)
• data transfer (like a handheld device's docking station)
• any combination of the above
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a technology which enables the copyright
owner of intellectual property, like a digital audio track, to control how you, the
listener, can use the file. It is normally used to allow you to download digital audio
tracks while preventing you from distributing the files to other people or other
devices. With DRM, digital audio tracks contain digital signatures. Creative
PlayCenter and your player are DRM-compliant.
Glossary A-4