When man evolves, the technology does the same. In the last few years the techology had evolve a lot especially in the electronic devices. We had learn a little bit of the history of the music widgest and how this new devices effect on music. The name in our blog is "Music In Your Hand", we would say all in this sentence. We topic is that now people can go every were with the music that they like. We thing that is pretty awesome, not for now we can go to differents places listening music, we think that the most importan thing is the evolution of this widgets that man has made it possible.
martes, 20 de abril de 2010
The evolution of music widgets part 2
- Walkman: The Walkman player is a portable stereo audio released by the Japanese company Sony in 1979. The first model was the TPS-L2. This model and its subsequent revisions, Sony sold millions of units, but when it appeared, few could afford one because of its high price. The Walkman sound quality obtained as a result, similar to that of a home team, without being so bulky. The wide dissemination of the Walkman also radically changed the business of the turntable and gave the first blow to vinyl and the cassette was easier and cheaper to reproduce. The Walkman is a symbol of the 80s.
The names "Walkman", "Pressman", "Watchman", "S
coopman", "Discman", and "Talkman" are trademarks of Sony, and have been applied to a wide range of portable entertainment devices manufactured by the company. Sony continues to use the "Walkman" brand name for most of their portable audio devices, after the "Discman" name for CD players was dropped in the late 1990s. According to Sony, the plural form is "Walkman Personal Stereos", rather than "Walkmans" or “Walkmen”.
The Walkman player is a portable stereo audio released by the Japanese company Sony in 1979. The first model was the TPS-L2. This model and its subsequent revisions, Sony sold millions of units, but when it appeared, few could afford one because of its high price. The Walkman sound quality obtained as a result, similar to that of a home team, without being so bulky. The wide dissemination of the Walkman also radically changed the business of the turntable and gave the first blow to vinyl and the cassette was easier and cheaper to reproduce. The Walkman is a symbol of the 80s.
The names "Walkman", "Pressman", "Watchman", "Scoopman", "Discman", and "Talkman" are trademarks of Sony, and have been applied to a wide range of portable entertainment devices manufactured by the company. Sony continues to use the "Walkman" brand name for most of their portable audio devices, after the "Discman" name for CD players was dropped in the late 1990s. According to Sony, the plural form is "Walkman Personal Stereos", rather than "Walkmans" or “Walkmen”.
- Minidisc:The MiniDisc, or MD minidisk is a magneto-optical disk digital 90 developed in the original Japanese multinational Sony, smaller than conventional CDs and greater capacity in comparison.
It is a small optical disk (7 cm x 6.75 cm x 0.5 cm) and rewritable, magneto-optical storage initially designed to contain up to 80 minutes of digitized audio.
Minidisc technology was announced by Sony in 1991, was introduce
d into the market on January 12, 1992, and is able to store all types of binary data. The format used for music compression is based on ATRAC/ATRAC3, use DRM, different bitrates, and a direct sampling from an analogy or digital signal. In Japan were the substitutes for the cassette tapes, but it was not in the rest of the world despite the efforts of Sony, because their price was high. They became popular in the UK for three years (1998-2001) when trading a limited selection of albums on MiniDisc, as well as on CD and cassette, but the distribution of music over the Internet and the rise of the MP3 format have not favoured decreasing costs. Currently used primarily for recording.
MiniDisc discs are smaller than CDs, have a diameter of 64mm, but its data transfer speed is less than 292 Kbps, compared to 1.4 Mbps which requires the CD. It delivers a resolution of 16 bits, using standard sampling frequency of 44.1 KHz. - MP3 player: A digital audio player is a device that stores, organizes and plays digital audio files. Commonly referred to as MP3 player, MP3 player, or just MP3 (due to the ubiquity of the format . mp3), but digital audio players often play other file formats. Some formats are proprietary, such as Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and, t
o a degree, MP3. Some of these formats also may incorporate restrictive DRM technology, such as WMA DRM, which are often part of certain paid download sites. Other formats are completely patent-free or otherwise open, such as Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and Speex (all part of the Ogg multimedia project open).
A digital audio player, or DAP, usually referred to as an MP3 player, is a consumer electronic device that has the primary function of storing, organizing and playing audio files. Some DAPs are also referred to as portable media players as they have image-viewing and/or video-playing support.
domingo, 18 de abril de 2010
iPhone
Nowadays, there are these things that people cannot live without, like cell phone, internet or music. These three things come in different device but with these new technologies you can home all three in one. The product of this new technology is the Iphone. Before you had an Ipod or mp3, the Pc or Laptop and the cell phone. You had three objects to going with you, but with Iphone only need one.
With the new Iphone you can gave phone calls, listen to music or get into the internet, but even play games, in the internet you can find very different games, like mental games (to test your brain), cars, football and other sports or games of platforms. These games entertain you while these waiting for someone or in a distance of bus or underground.
Furthermore, the Iphone has a panoramic screen that allows him to be able to see movies and also to play with the games with the great panoramic one. Other gadget that has the device is the touch screen, which allows you forgot of the keyboard and gives you more amusement in the games.
The evolution of music widgets
- Stone disc: Few things are known about this tipe of disc. They were the fi
rst discs to listen music, they were made of a thin layer of stone, here his characteristic name. They were placed in the gramophones a prior to the record player invended. Here we have one pic. - Vinyl: Then came the vinyl record, made of polyvinyl chloride. The vinyl was the primary medium used for commercial music, in the 20th century. But when the digital media had come the vinyl was removed and remplaced. In our days, they are used by young people and adults, and DJs. Now most of them are a collector's item. There are differents types records:
*Common Formats
- -Diameter: 12 in. (30 cm), revolutions per minute: 331/2 rpm, time duration: 45 min Long Play (LP).
- -Diameter: 10 in. (25.cm), revolutions per minute: 331/2 rpm, time duration: (LP).
- -Diameter: 7 in (17.5 cm), revolutions per minute: 45 rmp, time duration: Single and Extended Play (EP).
- *Less Common Formats
- -RCA or RCA Red Seal: certain 45 rmp
- -RIAA "Recording Industry Association of America"
- Cassette: The came the cassette, is a magnetic tape sound recording formate. In the 1858, the RCA intuduced a new device, the stereo, quater-inch, reversible, reel-to-reel, RCA tape cartridge. This new divice it was a cassette, but i fail for offered only a few pre-record tapes. In 1962 Philips develop the cassette in the compact audio cassette medium for audio storage. The mass productions of cassettes in order to listen music with them, began in 1964 i
n Hannover, Germany. The cassettes are made of a polyester type plastic film with a magnetic coating. They were used also for record conversations, like in movies. But the cassette revolutionized the music, because now people could listen music, for exemple, when they were driving in their car or when they were walking on the sidewalks of their city, etc.
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