Sound and Audio Engineering
Dubai
Unit FND 100: Foundation Course
FND 100.2 Essay
Student Name: Fin Sheffield
Date : 25/9/2012
Unit Lecturer: Tasnim Saleh
The media industry has changed in the past twenty years in so many ways, most for the better but, in some cases, for negative reasons. Since the late 1990’s, society has witnessed the blow up of the internet allowing people from all over the world to access and research many different things, the influx of mobile phones and the advantage it has had on the people, the many different game consoles around and other things such as the transition between VHS to DVD’s and the introduction of BluRay and Bluetooth.
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It has been said that Lady Gaga’s song Poker face was played over 1 million times and she earned a total of $167, so the unknown artist will get next to nothing”.
The iPod has enhanced the music industry in so many ways. It can be said that the iPod is the greatest and most popular music playing device to have ever been made. If you own a iPod you will know that you can get unlimited digital music, films and apps, some for free and some for a little price. The good thing about it is that if you only like one song in the album you can buy just that one song, instead of having to the whole album. The iPod is a MP3 product which allows you to download the song of your choice from any site and still be able to play it through the iPod. An iPod can be used for more than just music. It can also be utilized to play games, listen to audio books, watch films, and recorded transcripts. Anything audio (and usually visual) can be played on the iPad. There are many different models of iPods, including the “Classic”, the “iTouch” and the “Nano”. All include individual features of their own. One of the iPod’s great advantages is that it is mobile and is used by many people on the move from businessmen to school children.
Even though the iPod may have some quite amazing qualities, it also has a severe downside, which mainly affect the profits of the audio and visual media industries. These centre
Everything comes with negatives. “But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple"(Chapter 11 Page 5). It is extremely important to acknowledge and understand that technology can drastically change a society. For the purpose of this essay the technology is television and the change is our culture valuing entertainment over substance, which is turning us into a nation who sits back and lets people run the country the way they
Anyone who has attempted to wade through the multimedia of iPod speakers on the market knows that the options are difficult to distinguish. The speaker system today, in the context of the more competitive that has emerged since then. The outward appearance of the speaker system remains reasonably attractive, innovative and impressive with their elegant and superb designs to ensure its pleased and satisfying quality and features in order to match its price tag.
There have been many technological advances throughout that past four decades within music production and many have argued that without the boom of the digital culture the popular music of today not be as it is today. This paper will examine an extremely important technological change of the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties that has helped shape popular music of today.
This is a monumental year for world music industry because global digital revenues exceeded physical record revenues for the first time. As a digital music service, streaming is the biggest issue in the music industry today. Digital music streaming has grown with the improvement of mobile communications and the spread of smartphones. Consumers got used to use streaming service rather than download for various contents including music and videos.
As if the music industry has not seen enough change in recent years, Pandora Radio has started yet another music revolution. This time, however, the revolution is not about how the music is stored and collected (LP/CD/MP3 transformation), or how music is purchased (Record Stores/ iTunes transformation), but how we actually listen to music. Pandora Radio has created an amazing technology, which allows users to create and customize their own radio stations that automatically play new and unique songs that cater exactly to the users tastes and interests. Pandora has created a radio station that never plays that bad or annoying song. With Pandora, the user will never have to turn that proverbial
Introduction: With the very high demand in the market place for a musical device called the IPod, it’s no surprise that the IPhone, a hybrid of a phone and music device that it will be a big hit in the market place. This highly anticipated electronic trend setter had thousands of people waiting in line at the apple store in New York, and all over the country trying to get their hands on this iPhone. The IPod combined with a Phone, gives birth to this amazing product which has the following features: a 3.5 inch touch screen (the largest of all smart phones), Wi-Fi connectivity, the most usage time of all smart phones, i.e. talk time, internet use, or video playback, and many more impressive characteristics. The iPhone has, thereby,
The impacts on the Film and Television industry by discussing the positive and negative socio-economic effects of streaming services and pay-tv on sectors such as retail, exhibition and free-to-air television.
The iPod and iTunes drastically changed the music business and the way we interact with our music players.
Introduction: With the very high demand in the market place for a musical device called the IPod, it’s no surprise that the IPhone, a hybrid of a phone and music device that it will be a big hit in the market place. This highly anticipated electronic trend setter had thousands of people waiting in line at the apple store in New York, and all over the country trying to get their hands on this iPhone. The IPod combined with a Phone, gives birth to this amazing product which has the following features: a 3.5 inch touch screen (the largest of all smart phones), Wi-Fi connectivity, the most usage time of all smart phones, i.e. talk time, internet use, or video playback, and many more impressive characteristics. The iPhone has, thereby,
Whilst much of television’s history has relied on specific industrial practices established early in the 1960s, the turn of the century has introduced significant changes to the medium of television. The current position of television, defined by Lotz as the ‘post-network’ era, illustrates an evolution from these early industry practices. For the most part, scholars agree that this transition was caused by changes in the industrial norms of producing, financing, and distributing television, many of which can be attributed to the arrival of digital technologies. This essay will argue that these changes throughout the television industry have created a new, distinctive era of television culture.
In the 1970’s many more transformations were happening in media. The development of the internet was still underway and won’t become readily available until the 90’s to the general public. Public access television was created. “The
What do we really mean by television? The way we watch television has drastically changed over the last fifteen years due to new technologies such as digital television and services providing on-demand access. These drastic changes have had a huge effect on viewers and have “allowed online streaming platforms to dominate and revolutionize the way the audience consumes” (Aliloupour) media, ultimately allowing the viewer to be in total control of how, when and where they want their content. The idea of only being able to watch television on a television set is now a thing of the past. Due to technology, the audience now has a vast variety of options on how they can access content. By using scholarly articles, research in new media and Internet sites I will be analyzing current television and where the future of television will be heading.
Apple Inc. is known for their innovative products, combining user-friendly technology and elegant design, Apple’s bite of the consumer electronics market has been getting a little larger year by year. The Apple brand is fun, unique, and memorable because it is such a departure from brands that sound serious and corporate. Apple’s Macintosh computers has always stood out because it looks different from other personal computers and relies on software that even novices can learn. IPod backed by music-driven advertising, the player with the white ear buds immediately became the product of choice for many consumers. Newer models such as the iPod Nano and the iPod Touch have continued the
IPod is electronic gadgets used by people for their entertainment, luxury and pleasure and it is not available for public at no cost .and due to shortage of availability of this types of good can reduce the number of use hence it may happen that other people cannot get same good in same period .
Twenty-first century is the age of information, communication and entertainment (ICE). Mass media ie radio, television, movies, advertising, news media, newspaper and magazines, has a vital role to play in the development of a country and created many job opportunities as well.