Digital Video History

Digital Televisions Are Hot Right Now

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

If you remember the days before digital televisions when the whole family would congregate around the old black and white TV set, then you will appreciate how much things have changed in a comparatively short period of time.
Go and visit any of your local appliance stores and you will be amazed at the size of […]

Digital Video Cell Phones

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Cell phones have come a long way since the early days when they were bulky machines, you can now even get digital video cell phones quite cheaply.
But camera phones are nothing new, they have been making the headlines recently with kids using them to film bullying scenes.
Not the ideal form of promotion the makers of […]

Digital Video Cameras Make VHS Obsolete

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Using digital video cameras together with a home computer and decent editing software, you can produce a motion picture-quality video that would rival Hollywood filmmakers.
After all George Lucas managed it with Star Wars, Episode II. So there is no reason why anyone can’t. George used digital video cameras to shoot the entire movie in […]

Digital Video Technology First Adopted By Television

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

It is hard to believe that modern video technology has only been with us for the past 50 years. So much has changed during that time culminating in current digital video technology that is taken for granted by many.
The first video tape recorder was developed by John Mullin a research engineer who worked for […]

How Digital Video Came About

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Digital video is a progression from the first origins of video recording.
Video tape recorders were first produced in 1951 and consisted of technology that could take in electric impulses and then transfer these on to magnetic tape.
The intervening years to 1956 saw the finalization of video tape recorders and their use for television purposes.
As the […]