1. Converged Technology

2. Move to digital Transistor, IC, microchips
Analog: mechanical, size, speed, quality (encoding / decoding)
Digital: PCM, 16 bit word, sampling, quantizing (encoding / decoding)
Algorithms to manipulate data
Sampling rates (text)

3. PCs and Internet
Reduction in sizes, increases in speeds, increases in storage
OS and computer language / GUI
Machine language, interface languages
PC chapter and link on course outline
Terms about how computers work
Flash memory
Moore’s Law (Gordon Moore)
Digital divide ($100 laptop)
Digital natives

4. Digital Compression algorithms: codecs
Digital examples: DCC, MiniDisc, DAT, CD-R (and variations), DVD-R (and variations), Beta SP-> DigiBeta, Beta SX, DVCPro / DVCam, etc.
Color Book standards
SMPTE, IEEE ...
WORM / WMRM
Quality, analog to digital
When is it legal to rip?

5. Digital DAW Podcasting / RSS / News feeds High speed distribution
Faster processing and more storage
“Digital media”
Effect on ‘legacy media’
Telegraph
“Western Union sends last telegram” 2006
Blockbuster demise

6. Traditional Media Radio review TV review Cable / MVPD review
Local, FM classes, HD Radio, assembling the format, record companies, dayparts, syndication, Arbitron
TV review
Local vs. national, who owns what?, networks/O&Os/affiliates, Nielsen, sweeps
Cable / MVPD review
All ‘linear’

7. Home Video Chapter Three ways to receive a signal air, wire, ‘hand’
Display types
Distribution changes
Netflix, Redbox, Apple TV
‘Convergence’---
1 / 2 / 2.5 / 3G to 4G cell phone
‘web 2.0’
Photography --> Daguerrotype

8. Camera tchnology

9. Digital Photography Joseph Niepce: 1826 DSC DSLR Film / processing
CCD, CMOS, MOS (transducer)
Convergence
Leads us to Section 4
Mobile media
‘Smart phone’