Digital Media: Digital, Moore's Law, Digital Cinema, Kendra Initiative, Laserdisc, Digital Divide, Digital Cinematography (Paperback) - Paperback

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 142. Chapters: Digital, Moore's law, Digital cinema, Kendra initiative, Laserdisc, Digital divide, Digital cinematography, Digital video recorder, New media, List of UPnP AV media servers and clients, Digital history, News ticker, New media art, Web television, T Visionarium, Electronic game, Glitch art, Downloadable content, SeeSaw, Digital Cinema Package, Gapless playback, Prix Ars Electronica, Newname performance, List of films shot in digital, Online journalism, Individual Television Experience, University of Waterloo Stratford Campus, Digital edition, Open Rights Group, Locative media, Yudu Media, ESeL, Digital intermediate, Media preservation, Digital Cinema Initiatives, Submission management, Electronic journalism, Digital Media Repository, Redshift, V2 Institute for the Unstable Media, Canada 3.0, Electronic media, Optical recording, C.O.R.E., Multi Format Publishing, Web series, ProjectExplorer, Streamy Awards, MIDI Show Control, G. H. Hovagimyan, Centre for Digital Media, Open Sound Control, MADI, DoD New Media, Comparison of UPnP AV media servers, Girltrash!, New media artist, Commercial skipping, Record Union, Motion picture film scanner, Ken Coates, SVnetwork, Electronic submission, Robert Goldman, Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0, The Adventures of a Sexual Miscreant, FutureMedia, Digital classics, Voting America, Serial Copy Management System, International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, SBC6446, Digital exhaust, XDC, Machfeld, Blue Velvet, Televisionary, Marcus André Charles Rose, Gaumina, BTV247, Inc, Central Division, Mygazines, HD media player, The Islamic Globe, Northwest film school, Digital backlot, Southtree, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., International Academy of Web Television, TV Key, DiscoVision, Digital convergence, International School of New Media, Via Art, Operative Media, Digital cassettes, Millenniata, Location-based media, Offshoot Films, Digital media service, Char Davies, Rider Spoke, PaidContent, Ad Magnet, MP3 Newswire, Ulrike and Eamon Compliant, Digital character, AIX Records, 5D DVD, Soundmap, Robert Abel and Associates, Can You See Me Now?, Kabul Press, Gotuit, Virtual advertising, Digital Scrapbooking, Key & See, BALANCE Act, Britglyph, Open Media Framework Interchange, Digital content creation, Integrated Media Systems Center, Digital hang tag, 1-bit DAC, Source data, Digital Cinema Open System Alliance, Multi-platform series. Excerpt: The LaserDisc (LD) was a home video disc format, and was the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially marketed as Discovision in 1978, the technology was licensed and sold as Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Videodisc, Laservision, Disco-Vision, DiscoVision, and MCA DiscoVision until Pioneer Electronics purchased the majority stake in the format and marketed it as LaserDisc in 1983. While the format itself produced a consistently higher quality image than its rivals, the VHS and Betamax systems, it was poorly received in North America. In Europe and Australia, it also remained largely an obscure format. It was, however, much more popular in Japan and in the more affluent regions of South East Asia, such as Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. Laserdisc was the prevalent rental video medium in Hong Kong during the 1990s. The technology and concepts provided with the Laserdisc would become the forerunner to Compact Discs and DVDs. Laserdisc technology, using a transparent disc, was invented by D...