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I was born in the year 1982. After 6 years, I was in line in music. I sing songs which are famous of those times. In fact, compact audio cassettes are what I find precious because these are my tools as I practice to sing songs from my favorites artists.
Now, that I am 27 years old, I never find stores selling audio cassettes. They are mostly selling CDs.
Over the past decade, I have seen the DVD format replace VHS tape, but new digital formats are already on the market. HD-DVD and Blu-ray players are available, although the HD-DVD format has already become obsolete, and its highly like that DVD will be replaced by something else in the longer time.
New file formats appear for a number of reasons. Sometimes an exciting new consumer device introduced a new format, or an influential company such as Microsoft makes a decision and most other people follow. For example, its Office 2007 suite of programs uses a new file format called Open XML. It's not compatible with older versions of Office, but Microsoft claims that in the long run will benefit from smaller file sizes, an increased likelihood that data can be recovered when files are damaged and the ability to share data which other systems, such as business databases. The Open XML file format are available for free, so no-one has to pay Microsoft royalties to use it.
Not all such decisions have gone well, though. In 1986, the BBC published a disc containing content generated by more than a million people. It contained writings, photos and videos of their daily lives to give a future society an insight into how we lived. The disc was created using laser disc technology and required a BBC Acorn computer to work. Within 15 years, the BBC realised the disc drives capable of reading the format had become rare. It had to convert the project to the Digital Betacam format to preserve it for the future.
Therefore, when choosing the type of file format for storing your audio and video content, you'll usually have a choice between one that stores a very accurate copy (but takes up lots of disk space) and one that compresses the file into a smaller file (but has a slightly lower quality). Unless you're really stuck for disk space, opt for the higher quality format.
This is the transition of today's generation into a more progressive and instant access of technology's advancement which I, myself enjoyed a lot.
Now, that I am 27 years old, I never find stores selling audio cassettes. They are mostly selling CDs.
Over the past decade, I have seen the DVD format replace VHS tape, but new digital formats are already on the market. HD-DVD and Blu-ray players are available, although the HD-DVD format has already become obsolete, and its highly like that DVD will be replaced by something else in the longer time.
New file formats appear for a number of reasons. Sometimes an exciting new consumer device introduced a new format, or an influential company such as Microsoft makes a decision and most other people follow. For example, its Office 2007 suite of programs uses a new file format called Open XML. It's not compatible with older versions of Office, but Microsoft claims that in the long run will benefit from smaller file sizes, an increased likelihood that data can be recovered when files are damaged and the ability to share data which other systems, such as business databases. The Open XML file format are available for free, so no-one has to pay Microsoft royalties to use it.
Not all such decisions have gone well, though. In 1986, the BBC published a disc containing content generated by more than a million people. It contained writings, photos and videos of their daily lives to give a future society an insight into how we lived. The disc was created using laser disc technology and required a BBC Acorn computer to work. Within 15 years, the BBC realised the disc drives capable of reading the format had become rare. It had to convert the project to the Digital Betacam format to preserve it for the future.
Therefore, when choosing the type of file format for storing your audio and video content, you'll usually have a choice between one that stores a very accurate copy (but takes up lots of disk space) and one that compresses the file into a smaller file (but has a slightly lower quality). Unless you're really stuck for disk space, opt for the higher quality format.
This is the transition of today's generation into a more progressive and instant access of technology's advancement which I, myself enjoyed a lot.
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