Visit Subscriber Club Site
Subscribe
  • Find Computeractive on Facebook
  • Follow Computeractive on Twitter
  • Computeractive on your mobile
  • Computeractive's RSS feeds

Simple clear advice in plain English

Jargon Buster

Computing terms explained in plain English

MPEG

Motion Picture Experts Group. Describes a method of compressing digital video. MPEG1 compression gives VHS-quality video, while MPEG2 compression gives high-quality video with CD-quality sound. MPEG2 compression is used for DVD movies.

No matching document

Find more jargon definitions

Search for a specific term

0 to 9

Recent reviews

L&H Simply Translating 3.0

3Com/USR Palm IIIe

Lexmark Optra M410

Recent downloads

switch

Switch

SPB Full Screen Keyboard

PDF to Word 1.5

Recent PC help

Editorial

Cutting edge: Net. news - Net surf - The Armchair Scientist

Cutting edge: Net. news - AgentWare sniffs out web information

Recent step by step guides

Test gallery

CES 2006 in Pictures

Digital Photographer of the Year 2005

Updating your subscription status Loading

Most popular articles

No matching document

You say; we say

school-students-technology-gcse-computer

We must remember that a lot of schools have non specialist teachers delivering ICT lessons. The jump to Computer Science may be a lot to handle.

Matt Britland, head of ICT at Kingston Grammar School

Read more

Poll

Do you have Windows 8?

View poll results

Jargon Buster

Computing terms explained in plain English

Virtual drive

A set of files seen by Windows as a separate hard disk.

View all definitions
  • Find Computeractive on Facebook
  • Follow Computeractive on Twitter
  • Computeractive on your mobile
  • Computeractive's RSS feeds

© Dennis Publishing Ltd licensed by Felden. 30 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JD

About us:

Other Dennis websites:

Shopping and offers

Partner Price Comparison:

Magazine:

Free newsletters: