Digital Media

Digital media

Digital Media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital form. Hard drives store information in binary form so are considered a physical form of digital media.  Digital media can be broken into different many categories such as digital video, digital audio and digital images/pictures. If referring to applications that provide access to digital media this includes services as: music-iTunes, electronic games-xbox live, playstation network, movies/tv-itunes and Netflix.

Digital video is a type of digital recording system that works by using a digital rather than an analogue video signal. Things such as digital video cameras would be used in this area. Both film and video are methods of recording moving images and sound. Anyone would use digital video whether its students who are studying television or film.

Digital data is a method of storing values in binary form. Binary is essentially the language of computers. If we want to use a computer to work with information from the real world (in our case sound) then this information must be presented in or converted to binary. All digital file formats store information in binary form, regardless of their type. Text documents, digital images and digital video files all contain information in binary. The file format that contains the binary and the way which the binary is encoded (stored) presents the binary data as a word processing document, a photo, a video and so on - usable files. This includes CDs as well as any sound files stored on a computer.

Many of us use digital media. Today we text, blog, shuffle, download and search in ways that even five years ago were unthinkable. New technologies are fundamentally altering in the way we are communicating with one another. Nowadays more people listen to mp3s or ipods than we cd players (which we all had years ago) Technology plays a huge part to our daily lives we use it to communicate via social networks. Facebook is a great example of digital media that we use to maintain our online friendships and keep track of whats going on with the world.

Many artists use digital media as a way to express their creativity or perhaps its a sense of media they specialize in. Graphic designers will use packages such as photoshop and illustrator to create their masterpieces.

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