Essays Tagged: "Digital Audio"

Audio Format Wars

e of the life cycle. It's successor must sound better, work better, and have new features such as a digital display for song titles. There are currently two formats competing to be the consumers next ... rently two formats competing to be the consumers next choice for sound on the go. They are Philips' Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) and Sony's Mini Disc (MD).What exactly is digital recording? The defi ...

(5 pages) 48 0 4.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Technology is a constantly growing and ever-changing field. Old forms of mass media are merging with newer ones to create more efficient communication channels than ever previously thought possible.

nes. This is usually made possible through advances in modern technologies such as the Internet and digital audio.*How has Media Convergence affected industrial trends?Industries, such as telephone an ... inds of products and services are examples of Media Convergence?Interactive CD-ROMs, Books On Tape, Digital Audio (CDs, mp3s, wav files, etc...), and Amazon.com are all examples of products or service ...

(2 pages) 180 0 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Audio Waveforms.

king the voltage signals from a microphone or recording and vibrating to recreate the pressure wave.Digital AudioComputers store audio information digitally. In digital storage, the original waveform ... samples. This is known as digitizing or sampling the audio, and is sometimes called the analogue to digital conversation.Sampling RateThe sampling rate defines how often a sample is taken. For example ...

(4 pages) 26 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Can the drop in music sales be explained by Michael Porters Product Life Cycle and will the CD in the near future be replaced by mp3?

and reducing the clearness and quality of the music played. CDs are read by a laser beam reading a digital "surface" that is burned into the protected layer of a disk. This makes a CD less susceptibl ... makes a CD less susceptible to damages and other influences than a vinyl LP was. The quality of the digital music on a CD is far superior to the analog music on a vinyl LP, for obvious reasons, and do ...

(19 pages) 90 0 0.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Computers

eir use and now play a major role in music. One could say that personal computers have started "The Digital Music Revolution"� which affects many aspects of the music industry. Many people beli ... fferent directions. Many people believe computers have started a revolution that is called the "The Digital Music Revolution"�. As the years pass by and technology grows and becomes much improv ...

(5 pages) 22 1 5.0 May/2001

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies