digital technology

Digital technology has allowed us to drastically change what we can do in media. Now that we can compress digital signals we can have a lot more channels with much better quality. As well as being broadcast files can now be compressed to be put on portable devices such as memory sticks and ipods. This is a lot more practical because it takes up a lot less space. Being a lot smaller in size allows us to show films and shows everywhere and over the internet for example youtube. Digital technology has also greatly improved editing because now it has moved on from tape to digital you can now edit instantly. You can now also easily add effects on to the footage.