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Time period. Key developments in online video web sight. 1974–1992. Development of practical video coding standards. The development of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) lossy compression method leads to the first practical video formats, H.261 and MPEG, initially used for online video conferencing. 1993–2004.
VHS. Video Home System. Analog video recording on tape cassettes. Beat Betamax to become the dominant format for home analog video. 1978. LaserDisc. Close-up of grooves on a LaserDisc. Analog video that was read via laser stored on a 12 inch disc. 1981.
2000: First broadcast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Big Brother (US), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Malcolm in the Middle, MTV Cribs, Survivor, Jackass, 106 & Park, Weakest Link, Just for Laughs: Gags, Dora the Explorer, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Gilmore Girls; Billy Mays shoots an infomercial for OxiClean.
History of mobile phones. A man talks on his mobile phone while standing near a conventional telephone box, which stands empty. Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid-1980s that they became widely available. By 2011, it was estimated in Britain that more calls were made using mobile ...
The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century. The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were earlier cinematographic screenings by others, however, the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers ' short films in ...
The history of animation, the method for creating moving pictures from still images, has an early history and a modern history that began with the advent of celluloid film in 1888. Between 1895 and 1920, during the rise of the cinematic industry, several different animation techniques were developed or re-invented, including stop-motion with ...
John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. [1] In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servomechanisms to control the motion of lights ...
The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution[ 1 ]) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century. It is characterized by a rapid shift from traditional industries, as established during the Industrial Revolution, to ...