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Home Entertainment Sound & Vision HMV – Spring 2007 Reykjavík University, Computer Sci. T-611-NYTI, New Techology Teacher: Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson the digital home home entertainment sound & vision Author: Published: Haraldur Sæmundsson (130966-4899) March, 2007 the digital home – sound & vision 2 of 37 abstract This report will look at the evolution of the home entertainment system such as au- dio, video and television. How these systems evolved to the digitalization of the modern world and being a part of the digital home. The report will begin to look at how the audio, video and television came about and how they maturated. We will look at the trends and how the devices were received by the consumers, what was on the top and what went under. In the end we will discuss what will the future will bring us and see what the consequences are of the digitalization. keywords Digital Home, Home Entertainment Systems, Phonograph, Gramophone, Radio, Television, Broadcasting, Audio Systems, Computer, History. Haraldur Sæmundsson © 2007 Due: March 22nd, 2007 the digital home – sound & vision 3 of 37 content 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................. 4 2. THE JOURNEY .................................................................................................................................... 6 2.1 BIRTH OF THE GADGETRY ................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 RADIO AND TV BROADCASTING IN ICELAND .......................................................................................... 10 2.3 EVOLVING .................................................................................................................................... 11 2.3.1 SATELLITE TELEVISION .............................................................................................................. 12 2.3.2 RECORDING DEVICES ................................................................................................................ 13 3. ENTERING THE DIGITAL AGE ............................................................................................................ 17 3.1 DEVICES GOES DIGITAL .................................................................................................................... 17 3.1.1 CD AND CD-ROM .................................................................................................................... 17 3.1.2 DIGITAL TAPE RECORDERS ......................................................................................................... 18 3.1.3 DIGITAL RADIO (DAB) ............................................................................................................... 18 3.1.4 MP3 .................................................................................................................................... 18 3.1.5 DVD ..................................................................................................................................... 19 3.1.6 DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER ......................................................................................................... 20 3.1.7 DIGITAL TELEVISION ................................................................................................................. 21 3.1.8 FLAT TV – PLASMA & LCD ......................................................................................................... 22 3.1.9 HDTV ................................................................................................................................... 23 3.2 THE END OF ORIGINAL STANDARD TELEVISION ...................................................................................... 24 4. NEW SERVICES ................................................................................................................................. 25 4.1 INTERACTIVE TELEVISION ................................................................................................................. 25 4.2 IPTV ............................................................................................................................................ 26 4.3 PC – THE NEXT HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM? .................................................................................. 27 5. DIGITAL AGE ENTERING ICELAND .................................................................................................... 28 5.1 DIGITAL TELEVISION IN ICELAND ........................................................................................................ 28 5.2 CONTENT PROVIDERS ...................................................................................................................... 28 5.2.1 ORKUVEITA REYKJAVIKUR (OR) .................................................................................................. 28 5.2.2 SIMINN ................................................................................................................................. 29 5.2.3 365 BROADCAST MEDIA ........................................................................................................... 29 6. AND BEYOND – CONCLUSION .......................................................................................................... 30 6.1 A DAY IN OUR LIFE .......................................................................................................................... 31 7. REFERENCES .................................................................................................................................... 32 7.1 DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS ..................................................................................................... 32 7.2 BIBLIOGRAPHY .............................................................................................................................. 33 7.3 LIST OF IMAGES ............................................................................................................................. 36 Haraldur Sæmundsson © 2007 Due: March 22nd, 2007 the digital home – sound & vision 4 of 37 1. introduction From the beginning people have always liked to be entertained. It brought a joy and relief into peoples everyday eventless life. People have been entertained and are entertaining them selves with singing, dancing, theater, story telling and so on. Iceland is famous for its saga and rhymes. In former times the Icelanders used to live in dark and cold gabled farmhouses and people told each other stories of famous men like Egill Skallagrimsson. These sagas and rhymes went verbally from generation to generation. On the continent, rich people could affort to get musician and entertainment brought to their slots. The composer Mozart used to entertain the aristocrats and Franz Liszt [14] is consider to be the first "popmusician". This need for entertainment got people, in the late 19th century, like Thomas Alva Edison to think how this music could be recorded and replayed for people to enjoy. This thinking and inventions of other devices led to his invention of the phonograph. From that time on, an “avalanche” of new inventions for recording and reproducing of sound and vision, started for the public. Imagine now that you could have every piece of music ever written and every piece of film or tv show ever produced right there at you fingertips whenever you want. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to sit down in front of your TV and decide the program? You could watch your favorite TV program the whole night. Wouldn’t it be nice to listen to your favourite radio station which happened to be located on the other site of the earth, in your kitchen radio? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to watch your local sport live broadcast in a hotel room in another country? Wouldn’t it be nice if all this didn’t cost you a fortune? We are entering the digital age where everything is going to be digitalized, which make scenarios like that much easier to create. Standardized equipment, computer techniques and the software is going to change what we will be able to achieve with our home entertainment system. This trend has already begun. It started with the compact disk (CD) and the personal computer (PC). The computer and Internet are more and more used by people for source of entertainment. People go online, download music, films, TV programs, etc. People like to be in charge of what they are watching and when they watch it. So the next natural step must be merging. With the emergence of the digital age the distinction between radio, TV, music players and the computer is blurring and these devices are merging in new ways. There will still exist specialized versions of these hybrids, i.e. radio or music players like the iPod, but we will also see the devices beginning to talk to each other and work together. The radio will be able to go online and downstream any radio station or music you want to listen to. Your iPod will be updated automatically with the newest releases from your favorite band. There will be a TV set in every room of your home, capable of displaying whatever you could imagine. The computer will merge into the TV or vice versa. There will only be one cable (fiber) or wireless connection to your TV set which will be able to feed signals from todays cable, antenna and internet. You will have a centralized service or device, to keep all your audio and video collection and photos. A collection which is accessable from every device in your home or abroad. Haraldur Sæmundsson © 2007
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