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Trends & Contemporary Technologies

Trends & Contemporary Technologies. Topic 6: Multimedia Technology. Trends & Contemporary Technologies. Communications Technologies Storage Technologies Processing Technologies Display Technologies. Communications Technologies. Buses USB 2 Firewire. Wireless WiFi Bluetooth.

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Trends & Contemporary Technologies

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  1. Trends & Contemporary Technologies Topic 6: Multimedia Technology

  2. Trends & Contemporary Technologies Communications Technologies Storage Technologies Processing Technologies Display Technologies

  3. Communications Technologies • Buses • USB 2 • Firewire • Wireless • WiFi • Bluetooth

  4. Storage Technologies • Magnetic Technologies • Tapes, Floppy disc drives & Hard Disc drives • Optical Technologies • CD-ROMs, DVDs • Holographic Technologies • Holographic Versatile Disc

  5. Holographic Versatile Disc • This technology records data in layers right through the full depth of the medium and not just on the surface as with CD and DVD technology • Advantages • Very fast access speed as millions of bits can be written or read in parallel in a single operation • Very high storage capacity ( terrabytes) making it suitable for staorage of multimedia

  6. Processing Technologies • Becoming smaller, faster & cheaper • Some now are multi-processor machines • Have processors for individual tasks such as video compression & processing.

  7. Flexible Displays Roll it up and carry it away Virtual 3D Simulates 3D by providing separate images for each eye. Some need special glasses Real 3D Projects a moving image in to space. Display Technologies

  8. Smartphone: merging technologies of a mobile phone and a laptop. Pocket PC: merging technologies of a laptop, mobile phone and desktop operating system and application software. Converging Contemporary Technologies

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