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• Saturday, May 17, 2008 - Portable Media - Changing the Way We See The World
It seems everything is portable these days, even your music and movies.
Movie night used to be something that families did once a week, and music came from the radio. Towards the end of the 20th century, CD players and tape decks made music more portable, but they could still be bulky and hard to use at times. When it came to movies and television, you had to be at home to enjoy.
Those days are gone, as some of the amazing portable media available today makes it seem like the future is already here.
Of course, these days, when it comes to music, everybody wants MP3 players. They are smaller than anything that has ever been out before, and weigh next to nothing. Because of digital technology, these tiny pieces of portable media can carry hundreds of different songs with no CD or tape required.
The music is simply downloaded from a computer onto the player and it is ready to go. If you look around on any given day, you will see all type of people with this form of portable media.
Cell phones are not just for phone calls any longer, as they're yet another form of portable media. It depends on the phone you have, your service provider, and what type of service you pay for of course, but many have found their cell phones to be about a lot more than just phone calls.
Many have easy access to the Internet, and you can even watch television and movies on a phone. Of course, this isn't always practical, but it certainly works when nothing else is around. You can even play games on some phones, and that can take up a lot of time while stuck somewhere with time to kill.
Another type of portable media is the DVD player. These days, they can be carried around, or they can come installed in new cars and vans.
These are great for children when they are in the car for long periods of time, or when they are away from home visiting someone who might not have a DVD player for them to use. This is probably not the end of what people can come up with in the way of portable media.
Considering the speed that media is coming down in price -- thanks to something called Moore's Law -- I imagine pretty soon we'll have comfortable, lightweight glasses or sunglasses that are a complete personal home theater, storing dozens or even hundreds of movies without being any more heavy or bulky than a normal pair of glasses.
Pretty soon, the days of having to go home to see your favorite TV show, or to check your email may be long gone. Instead, you can have anything you need at any time, anywhere you may go. |
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