Entertainment

Entertainment has been affected by digital technology thorough out the distribution and production. Almost every are in entertainment has been touched by digital technology. This technology allows us to be more creative such as creative works of radio, music, CD’s and Games. These types of entertainment can be stored using little memory on digital devices and easily transferred from one digital service to another.

Types of entertainment in the information age

FILMS: going back to the 70’s and 80’s we notice that the standards of films were low tech. There was nothing like CD’s/DVD’s before the information age. Some of them are usually in white and black. But the introduction of high standard technology has had a major impact on films, the quality of films are now of high standard. 3D films are now well recognised. Today, the media has had a major influence in 3D’s film. Advertising for new films are now more high tech. Films can be sent multiple location simultaneously in digital forms this means that film release dates can be brought forward and DVD realises and broadcast distribution can be brought closer to its original date, this means that there would be more funding movie and more choices.

Advantages
Once they are bought, they can be put on different devices
Cheaper to purchase than DVD’s

Disadvantages
Bad quality films
File size often too large

Portable devices: which includes I-pod, Mp3 player and CD players? All these are useful and are al source of entertainment. I-pod device are widely used today by lots. People now own one this is as they are very versatile in what they can do such as: listening to music, playing games and watching films/TV programmes. These all can be viewed and listened to through these pieces of technology.

MP3: universal allows people to share or download music in the format of mp3 files. MP3 allows you to listen to music on the go; they are tiny players which you can upload your personal music on. Mp3 players such as IPOD’s are very popular pieces of software with loads of different mp3 players on the market. MP3 players are other pieces of technology which has been updated, with MP4 player now being introduced. MP4 players as well as playing music also allow you to play video while on go. Videos can be easily downloaded from online sites such as I-Tunes, although they are very expensive when downloading. MP4 players are one of the most recent sources of entertainment as they allow user to watch their favourite films while out and about. MP3 Became very popular due to the sharing which takes place over msn and chats rooms using attachment without any cost. Apple is the a manufactured of iPod’s they launched their first 1st I-Pod in 2001 which grew instantly in a big success , since 2001, apple are constantly upgrading I-pods to various sizes, designs ,memory capacity and types.

Televisions: the first worked with analogue signals. Analogue signals were received by aerial attached to TV’s. Analogue signals were very poor and had low signals. But over the years it had improved. Aerials were then planted on rooftops to increase signal strength, making TV more enjoyable. But now, analogue signals are becoming a thing of the past since the introduction of digital signals. Digital radios are much better than analogue because the signals are much clearer. The same thing is being done with T.V’s. The newer flat screen TV’s have digital receivers built in, meaning that they can pick up digital. However, in the UK, the switchover from analogue to digital won’t happen until 2012. The digital switch over is where all analogue signal in the UK will be switched off leaving only digital signals being received. The digital switch over means anyone who uses an analogue TV will have to upgrade their services using either satellites, cable, Arial or Broadband. There are implications to this switch over however, as the analogue signal is being switched off everyone has to make sure that they can receive digital, which can be very expensive and a long process to switch.

Digital cinema
Cinemas have been around for since 19th century. The first cinema consisted of a projector and a piano. The movies played were silent movies; this is why there was someone playing the piano to add music to the movie. But now, movies have sound in them, and cinemas are fitted with surround sound speakers, creating a more realistic viewing experience. But now, a lot of cinemas show 3d movies require special glasses to view them. Together with surround sound, 3d movies can now be watched like never before. Digital cinemas have the same concept, but instead of projecting the movies form a reel of film, the movies are projected from a digital storage device. Digital cinemas are much better because they save space when it comes to storing films.

Software’s: allows us to play around with things such as music, software’s has made it possible fro people to easily mix and create their own song. People using this technology can use the highly developed technology to create backing tracks by selecting a music style. With the use o software, you can upload you photos and edit them. With the use of Photoshop, you can change your photos and change colours in the style you want it. It gives you the option of changing the colour, over and under exposing photos, changes the contrast of the pictures, chopping the pictures and many more options are available. Before Photoshop, I found it impossible to get the right look I wanted for my photo.

Music is one of the most complicated topics that can be edited and played around when using digital technology. A person that may wish to record some music can simply upload it on their computer and software will allow the user to get rid of mistakes and provides the user with the best quality of sound possible. With music software, you can mix other types of music, incorporate different instrument in order to get desired tune.