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Video & Audio in the Digital Age

Chaps. 17 & 18

Reminder…

Complete a TV News package about the event you shot

Write a script and submit it – use the sample

Come in for more training as needed

Due by Friday

Three kinds of reception

By air NTSC, DTV

By conduit Cable, satellite, IPTV

By hand VCRs, VCDs, DVDs, digital files

Our purpose in studying technology Creation and distribution of content

What’s Missing?

Mobile media

Connected devices (Roku, Apple TV, Google TV/Chromecast)

‘The Cloud’ / Internet video viewing / ‘virtual DVR’

3D-TV

4K / ‘Ultra HD’ TV ($3500 TV now available)

Home Video: Monitors

CRT

Projection

Plasma

LCD

DLP

LED

OLED

Home Video: Digital files

The Cloud

Virtual DVR

Connected device

Smart TV

Access to all content

Always VOD

Linear vs. non-linear programming

Bandwidth limitation and cost

Digital Video: licensing

Netflix, HuluPlus

Traditional TV networks

Specialty networks

Replacement of MVPDs

Digital copyright protections—Netflix example

Digital Audio: history

CD

DCC / mini-disc

CD-R / CD+R / CD-ROM etc.

Early MP3 players / iPod (later video)

Professional: Audition or ProTools – DAW Media files, ftp files, ISDN

Digital Audio Files

Napster / Grokster / P2P file sharing

Older copying vs. digital file sharing

RIAA

Laws Audio Home Recording Act Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act No Electronic Theft Law Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Copy Protection

DRM-free

not free to copy

Encrypted files

TVRO example

Criminal and civil liability

Selling digital audio

iTunes approach

Rhapsody Approach

Various services (see text) – what economic model?

‘the Cloud’

Cyberblocker services

Pirating / international issues

Application to Radio

AM and FM – analog signals

RDS & HD Radio – digital signals RDS – Radio Data Systems – song & artist, weather,

traffic HD Radio – HD1, HD2, HD3 -- IBOC

Automation systems Versus ‘live assist’ or voice-tracked (Winamp, iTunes) Enco, TuneTracker, etc. Voice tracking