Interactive Media Products

YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on

which users can upload, view and share videos. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and

uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user generated video

content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video

blogging and short original videos.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

DVD

DVD is an optical disc storage format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and

Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same

dimensions.

Pre-recorded DVDs are mass-produced using molding machines that physically stamp data onto the

DVD. Such discs are known as DVD-ROM, because data can only be read and not written nor

erased. Blank recordable DVD discs (DVD-R and DVD+R) can be recorded once using a DVD

recorder and then function as a DVD-ROM. Rewritable DVDs (DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM)

can be recorded and erased multiple times.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD

CD

The Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally

developed to store and playback sound recordings only, but the format was later adapted for storage

of data (CD-ROM), write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video

Compact Discs (VCD), Super Video Compact Discs (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, CD-i, and

Enhanced CD. Audio CDs and audio CD players have been commercially available since October

1982.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by electromagnetic waves with frequencies

significantly below visible light, in the radio frequency range, from about 3 kHz to 300 GHz. These

waves are called radio waves. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating

electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio

Video Games

A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate

visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster

display device, but following popularization of the term "video game", it now implies any type of

display device. The electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms; examples

of these are personal computers and video game consoles. These platforms range from large

mainframe computers to small handheld devices. Specialized video games such as arcade games,

while previously common, have gradually declined in use. Video games have gone on to become an

art form and industry.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game

Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can

be monochrome (black-and-white) or colored, with or without accompanying sound. "Television" may

also refer specifically to a television set, television programming, or television transmission.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television

Mobile Phones

A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone and a hand phone) is a device that can

make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It

does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to

the public telephone network. By contrast, a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of

a single, private base station.

In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones also support a wide variety of other services such as

text messaging, MMS, email, Internet access, short-range wireless communications (infrared,

Bluetooth), business applications, gaming and photography. Mobile phones that offer these and more

general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone

Computers

A computer is a programmable machine designed to automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic

or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the

computer to solve more than one kind of problem. An important class of computer operations on some

computing platforms is the accepting of input from human operators and the output of results

formatted for human consumption. The interface between the computer and the human operator is

known as the user interface.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

Game Consoles

A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that

produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device (a television, monitor, etc.) to

display a video game. The term "video game console" is used to distinguish a machine designed for

people to buy and use primarily for playing video games on a TV. As of 2007, it is estimated that video

game consoles have made up 75% of the world's gaming market.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console

iPod

iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc.. The product line-up

consists of the hard drive-based iPod classic, the touchscreen iPod touch, the compact iPod Nano

and the ultra-compact iPod shuffle. iPod classic models store media on an internal hard drive; while

all other models use flash memory to enable their smaller size (the discontinued mini used a

Microdrive miniature hard drive). As with many other digital music players, iPods can serve as

external data storage devices. Storage capacity varies by model, ranging from 2 GB for the iPod

shuffle to 160 GB for the iPod classic. The iPod line was announced by Apple on October 23, 2001,

and released on November 10, 2001.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod

iPad

The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for

audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, apps and web content. Its

size and weight fall between those of contemporary smartphones and laptop computers. The iPad

runs on iOS, the same operating system used on Apple's iPod Touch and iPhone, and can run its own

applications as well as iPhone applications. Without modification, the iPad will only run programs

approved by Apple and distributed via the Apple App Store (with the exception of programs that run

inside the iPad's web browser).

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad