Technology is developing quite quickly and it is hard to keep up with it.
Consumer products which is the use of camera, TV and computers for editing. These are getting used more and more at home as hey are now easy to access and they are also more affordable. All of the products listed are now a lot better then they used to be when they first come around. These days we can edit after everything in any order but back then people couldn't, they had to do every bit of editing in chronological order. They had to do this because they used film and had to physically cut it and put it back stick it back together. There was also a time where they had to edit with with the camera by cutting and recording at the exact right moments. Because we now have computers and editing software it makes our life a lot easier because now we don't have to do everything in order we can edit the parts we have without having to worry about missing out some shots.
Satellite vs cable. The advantage of having satellite is that you can get "Sky" anywhere in your house and you can also get any free view programming in any room. The disadvantage of it would be that it is easily impacted by the weather, for example if it starts raining too heavily the signal may get lost. Cable could be seen as better because it does not get affected by the weather. "Virgin" and "B.T" I believe are cable but the only thing is if you get these different companies as your television provider you will not get the same offer as you do with "Sky".
The Analogue switch-over is the change from having our TV's pick up signals from radio waves, having this means you would have to have antenna sat on top of your TV I believe that this is the thing that a lot of people refer to as rabbit ears. Now instead of it all being done through signals it is done digitally, This makes the picture on our TV a lot clearer and it also means that we could get HD.
The internet has developed very quickly. The first type of internet that I remember was dial-up and you used to have to wait for ages just for your page to load. Now you can just go straight onto the internet and you don't have to wait for anything, your page loads almost instantly. Back in the day you couldn't use your home phone at the same time of using the internet but now you can do what you want when on the internet. To me the internet is getting out of hand because there is basically nothing that you can't do on the internet anymore and it is all just getting more advanced and it is getting hard to keep up with. Now there is streaming on the internet so that you can now watch anything you want at anytime thanks to the likes of "Netflix" and "Amazon Prime". The fact that streaming is now possible just goes to show how advanced the internet is because like I said you can watch anything at anytime. People are also pirating TV shows now so the creators of the show are losing money due to this. TV is also interactive, the thing everyone has heard is "push the red button to vote" but also people are creating apps where you can vote for who you want to win a contest for example "Britain's Got Talent"
High definition was never a thing until a few years back. We used just have standard definition but then TV's were upgrading and getting better and that means that the resolution got better as well. The most common resolutions nowadays are 720p, 1080p and also 4K. 4K is classed as ultra HD and the fact that we have this is unbelievable considering where it came from.
3D become popular not too long ago when "Avatar" came out in cinemas in 3D. 3D TV's were created and they were really popular at the time they came but they soon went out of fashion as did 3D cinema. But the fact that we had the technology to make 3D TV's is incredible because it changes the way that you experience a film or television programmes.
Pay-Per-View is not used as much as it used to be, it was more commonly used for sporting events for boxing ,Wrestling etc. This is where you literally pay for every time you watch the event. I used to use PPV every time I wanted to watch a wrestling event but I know that they now have there own streaming app called "WWE Network" which is where you can watch all of there events on there for just £9.99 a month. Pay-per-views were always quite expensive ranging from £15 to £25. The advantage of this is that you get to watch the event live but the problem is the amount that you have to pay to watch said event.
On-Demand viewing is becoming more popular since apps such as "BBC iplayer" and "4OD" came out so that now you don't have to watch the show when it is first on television but you can watch whenever you can. This is lowering the viewership of TV shows as like I said people are not watching when the show is first aired. The advantage of this is that you can watch whenever you want and you don't need to worry about fitting to a schedule. The bad thing about this is that it is kind of making TV irrelevant. This is all part of streaming content which is doing the world a favour by making it by letting us watch our favourite shows when we have the time but also ruining things for the creators.
Digital recorders, these have made film making a lot easier as they save directly to the hard drive which means that you don't have to convert anything and everything is already there for you.
Technology is moving faster than we can keep up with but it is also helping us by making everything we do easier and makes put minimal effort in.
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