Part 4: Digital Media
A PERSONAL computer today is used for more than just personal computing. Today’s PCs function as digital photo and movie editors, digital music jukeboxes, and even digital video recorders for television programming. It’s all about digital media—which makes your PC the ultimate digital entertainment machine.
Digital media is different from older analog media. It’s the difference between a compact disc and a vinyl record. With analog media, you’re limited in terms of resolution and fidelity; copies don’t sound as good as the original, and they degrade over time. In the digital realm, all content is encoded digitally, using a series of 1s and 0s that represent the original recording. Digital copies are virtually identical ...
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