Information Technology in the Home.

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Information Technology in the Home.

Introduction:

In this report, I will be looking into I.T and how it is used and encountered throughout the everyday homes of the late 21st century and towards the present day. Usually, towards the end of the 21st century, we have had an enormous impact from I.T, which has revolutionized how we live and see the World. There are several things that I will be discussing such as Digital TV to everyday video cameras and how they have an impact on human beings on general.

I.T and its place in the home:

There are several things in the present day home of which, we can relate to Information Technology. The first that would spring to mind of most people is the popular Digital Television. Several companies such as Sky and NTL here in the U.K control the digital TV networks and broadcast live channels to the televised screen of the home viewer. Digital television brings far more to the television screen than significantly improved video and audio quality, also it acts in the age of true interactive television. However, it is not an easy task for the companies to produce and keep up to date with this new range of technology, therefore content developers are always looking for a feature-rich, cost-effective, and reliable software platform upon which, to build the next generation of interactive television services, which, we can see by looking back at history as not an easy task set out to achieve. With digital television, we can argue that it brings many advantages to the home user. As many people throughout North America and Europe start to switch from their analog TV sets to digital, we can see that the difference is better picture and better sound quality. Another set of reasons how digital is good is depending on the vast amount of data it can transmit, how consistent the data stays over a distance and what type of data the signal can carry. So, we can be right in saying that in the same amount of bandwidth, a lot more information can be put into a digital signal than a normal analog signal, due to the effects of Information Technology and how it has developed. The only problem or drawback we will be faced with in the future is how we are going to fit better picture, better sound and digital data into the same amount of frequency sent?
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The next bit of technology I am going to focus on in the home is the growing DVD. DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc and is a new form of technology that has taken over from VHS videocassettes. The DVD offers a high capacity multimedia storage medium that is designed to accommodate a full movie on a single disc, content rich multimedia or very high quality multi-channel audio on a disc that is much smaller in size 1/100 of a VHS cassette. The home user has to just insert the DVD into a DVD player or into his ...

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