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Netflix and Windows Media Center HTPC streaming capabilities, and the Zune marketplace | In addition to having a Blu-ray player the Xbox 360 also features what? |
The Wii U | What high definition gaming platform did Nintendo recently release? |
port games from past consoles onto the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii U, often with remastered or upscaled graphics | The HD capabilities of modern gaming systems has inspired developers to do what? |
an HDTV-capable digital video recorder | Sky HD's set-top box, TiVo's Series 3, and Dish Network's VIP 622 are examples of what? |
receiving or recording two or more broadcasts at a time in HDTV format | Some cable boxes are capable of doing what? |
analog only | What restriction does W-VHS recordings have? |
Digital-VHS or Data-VHS | What does D-VHS stand for? |
2008 | When was the Hauppauge 1212 Personal Video Recorder introduced? |
in MPEG-2 format in a .ts file or in a Blu-ray compatible format .m2ts file | How does the Personal Video Recorder store content? |
'as broadcast' format or transcode to a format more compatible with Blu-ray | Recent systems can record a broadcast HD program in what format? |
the Hauppauge 1212 Personal Video Recorder | What uncompressed storage option was introduced in 2008? |
analog HD | W-VHS recorders are capable of recording what kinds of signals? |
Analog tape | What kind of recorder is no longer produced for the consumer market? |
expensive and scarce | In the secondary market, analog tape recorders are considered what? |
a set-top box with "functional" FireWire (IEEE 1394) on request | Prior to 2004, what were US cable companies required to provide customers who rent HD set-top boxes? |
July 2004 | When were boxes with "functional" FireWire no longer included in the FCC mandate? |
5C | Content is now protected by what encryption? |
duplication of content or simply limit the number of copies permitted | What can 5c encryption prevent? |
fuel | In addition to being used to build things, what has wood been used for over thousands of years? |
cellulose | What kind of strong fibers are part of the composite of wood? |
lignin | What's the matrix in wood made up of? |
support | What one word describes the function wood provides to a tree or plant? |
nutrients | What does wood convey to leaves, roots, and other tissues of a woody plant in addition to water? |
434 billion | How many cubic meters of growing stock forest are there on the planet? |
47% | What percentage of the Earth's stock forest is commercial? |
furniture | In addition to buildings, what is wood often used to make? |
3.5 | About how many cubic kilometers of the vast stock forest's wood were harvested in 1991? |
abundant | In addition to being carbon neutral, what other adjective describes wood that makes it compelling as a renewable energy source? |
2011 | What year were the earliest plants that grew wood discovered? |
New Brunswick | In which Canadian province were the oldest woody plants found? |
carbon dating | If dendrochronology can't be used, what method would scientists employ to date wood? |
395 to 400 | How many millions of years old were the plants that were discovered in New Brunswick? |
construction material | What has been the primary purpose of wood for millennia other than fuel? |
houses | What is often made of wood that provides shelter to people? |
tree-ring widths | For clues about the climate of a place, we can look at variation in isotopic abundances or what other thing? |
weapons | What could be made out of wood that could be used to fight off attackers? |
furniture | What category of items often constructed from wood does a chair belong to? |
trees | Where does wood come from? |
woody layers | What forms in a tree to increase its diameter? |
secondary growth | What is the process of trees growing out to get bigger around called? |
seasons | What do many places have four of that would cause growth rings in a tree? |
annual rings | If a place has annual seasons, what are the growth rings on the trees there called? |
wider | If a growth ring has differences over one season, would the part nearest the tree's center be narrower or wider? |
earlywood | What name, besides springwood, is used for the part of a growth ring formed in the beginning of the growing season? |
latewood | If the opposite of springwood is summerwood, what's the opposite of earlywood? |
lighter | Is earlywood usually lighter or darker than the part of the growth ring that forms later in the season? |
outer | Is summerwood the inner or outer portion of a growth ring? |
knot | What is the sort of circular imperfection in a piece of wood called? |
strength | What property of wood does a knot usually reduce in the wood around it? |
longitudinally | In what direction is wood often sawn so that a knot appears as a solid circle that the grain flows around? |
darker | Are knots usually lighter or darker than the surrounding wood? |
90 | The direction of grain in a knot can differ by as much as how many degrees from the regular wood? |
a dormant bud | Other than the base of a side branch, what tree feature causes a knot? |
conical | What shape is the knot formed by a side branch's base? |
diameter | What measurement of a stem determines a knot's inner tip placement? |
circular | Because a knot's shape is conical, what shape does a cross-section of it have? |
die | What will the lower limbs of a tree usually do during development? |
years | For what length of time can a dead lower limb stay attached to a tree? |
around it | Rather than being joined to the limb that died, where do subsequent layers grow? |
not attached | Are the knots that dead tree limbs form attached or not attached? |
boards | A detached knot will probably drop out of the wood when someone saws it into what? |
grading | What's the process in which knots are classified called? |
size | Along with firmness, soundness, and form, what property of a knot is classified? |
firmness | What property of knots does the amount of time a branch stayed on a tree while the stem kept growing affect? |
defects | What is wood's breaking strength susceptible to? |
stiffness | Depending on the placement and size of a knot, what property of structural timber can be affected? |
sound wood | What do stiffness and elastic strength depend on more than defects? |
parallel | What direction of compression in relation to its grain won't weaken wood with sound knots in it? |
interest | What positive visual component can knots sometimes add to decorative pieces? |
bleed | What term is used to describe what knots can do to affect the finish of things made from wood even when they've been painted? |
difficult | Is bleed easy or difficult to control? |
yellow | The stain from a knot bleeding is usually brownish or what other color? |
preparation | In what stage of processing does knot primer need to be applied for maximum effectiveness? |
Heartwood | What's another word for "duramen"? |
decay | What is heartwood naturally resistant to? |
spontaneously | How does heartwood formation occur due to its being genetically programmed? |
dead | What adjective describes fully formed heartwood? |
decay organisms | Despite being considered dead, what can heartwood have one chemical reaction to? |
growth rings | In what part of a tree's cross-section is heartwood visible? |
darker | What simple color distinction can heartwood have that makes it stand out from living wood in a tree? |
decay | Along with insect infestation, what process can discolor wood and make it look like heartwood? |
woody | What kind of plants never form heartwood? |
sapwood | What is the living wood in a tree called? |
alburnum | What term is interchangeable with "sapwood"? |
younger | Is sapwood the younger or older wood in a tree? |
water | What essential liquid is the sapwood tasked with carrying around a tree? |
All | How much of the wood in a tree is sapwood at some point in its life? |
thicker | Does a tree growing quickly out in the open have thinner or thicker sapwood for its size than the same kind of tree in a dense forest? |
thin | If a tree starts forming heartwood right away, will its sapwood layer be thin or thick? |
position | What property of heartwood that has nothing to do with how important it is to trees got it its name? |
thick | Does a beech tree usually have thin or thick sapwood? |
Thin | Does a sassafras tree typically have a thin or thick sapwood layer? |
thick | Would a thin or a thick sapwood layer be found in a pine tree? |
crown | What part of a tree is the cross-sectional area of the sapwood approximately proportional to? |
narrow | Are more rings necessary if they're narrow or wide? |
thinner | As a tree grows bigger, if the sapwood layer doesn't increase in volume, what will it become? |
near the base | In what part of the tree trunk is the sapwood layer thinnest? |
age | Along with the smaller diameter of the upper trunk, what factor leads to thinner sapwood higher up a tree? |
limbs | What usually covers the whole trunk of a very young tree? |
knots | What evidence of the stubs of the limbs a tree loses can always be seen in the wood? |
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