Vocabulary:

рalmtop– карманный компьютер

smoothmusic– спокойная музыка

expansion- расширение

retrospect– взгляд в прошлое

enhancement– увеличение, улучшение

wrap– оболочка

wirelessnetworking– беспроводная работа в сети

utility program – обслуживающая программа

to free up – освобождать

to shoot – делать снимок

TEXT № 2. MORE SHADES OF BLACK

TASK: Read and translate the following text. Learn the vocabulary by heart. What types of printers do you know?

Photography’s past has become Epson’s next target for digital printing. In addition to the usual array of color inks, the Epson Stylus Photo R2400 uses four kinds of black ink to improve the reproduction of black-and-white photos.

Like the printer it replaces, the R2200, the new printer has two basic black options: matte black for heavily textured paper and photo black for everything else. But R2400 adds two additional cartridges, light black and light, light black, to improve monochrome photo reproduction. All of the R2400 inks are based on pigments, which improves resistance to fading.

The software it is uses allows black-and-white prints to be made directly from color image files. It also gives users the option of making monochrome prints with a slightly warm or a brownish sepia tone.

The printer accepts paper up to 13 inches, or 33 centimetres, in width. Despite its emphasis on black and white, it could also reproduce subtle differences in full color prints. (971)

Vocabulary:

target – цель

digital printing – цифровая печать

array – набор

color inks – цветные чернила

to improve – улучшать

reproduction– воспроизведение

resistance– сопротивление, защита

fading– постепенное исчезновение изображения

sepia – сепия (ярко-коричневая краска)

black-and-white photo– черно-белая фотография

TEXT № 3. VIDEO TRENDS

TASK: Read and translate the following text. Learn the vocabulary by heart. Make up summary of the text or point out the main idea of the text. Name the advantages and disadvantages of the VHS and DVD.

After several years of uncertainty, digital technology is on the threshold of reinventing video, with new products and technologies on the horizon that will bear little relationship to what has gone before.

D-VHS is very important, as it mirrors the introduction of digital TV services. It offers enormous benefits over standard VHS: the ability to record in a wide-screen format; the extended recording time; backward compatibility with regular VHS; the ability to evolve into what we call a learning VCR – by that it means a machine which can learn yuor viewing preferances. All are highly significant.

Digital (D-VHS) video recorders are likely to be only the first step in an expanding galaxyof products that are use computing and video technology in entirely new ways.

Digital TV is an exciting new technology that is at a critical juncture in its development in regard to both technology and the marketplace. It says that it will be digital TV, not the PC, that will dominate tomorrow’s in-home entertainment universe. (1045)