All about Digital Media

We all live in a world which is driven electronically and almost everything that is happening around is digitally run and computerized. When we are using the term digital then it basically refer to any sort of system which will be based on any discrete values or data. A great example in this case will include computers.
As we all know, computers are basically machines that operate on discrete values, like letters or number. These systems or machine distinguish between just two values which are 0 and 1. Having said that, the computers are able to process data when it is encoded in a digital format that consists of zeros and ones. Even though the computerized representation might sound too discrete to you, the information which is represented their cam either be continuous or discrete. These continuous values generally take the form of images, sounds as well as other measurements. 

What exactly Digital Media is?
We all have used and heard this word several times but don’t actually know what it is all about. Basically, digital media refer to any types of electronic media that you can easily store in digital format and encode it in different kinds of computerized digital or electronic devices. Once you are able to encode them, the digital device can easily operate, distribute as well as render the electronic media. Also, it can refer to the technical aspect of the storage as well as the transmission of information. Sometimes it is also used for end product information transmission process including digital audio, digital video or any form or digital art.
You can easily access all the end files or products using complex electronic devices that consist of digital processors and receivers. Most of the people use digital media for educational as well as entertainment purposes. You will be also able to operate them so as to create more forms of media including albums, media as well as websites.

Various Forms of Digital Media
- Augmented Reality
This form of digital media is actually a direct or indirect live view of the physical realistic scenario that hosts a number of augmented elements. You can easily do this by using any computer generated sensor inputs including graphics, video or sound. The augmentation is conventional in real time and it overlaps with the real time with various elements of environment. Using this technology, the information in the world that is surrounding us becomes highly interactive and also digitally manipulative.

- Digital Art
Digital Art refers to a broad range of artistic works as well as practises which uses digital technology as an essential part of their presentation and creative process. A few good examples of digital art include net art, digital photographs and digital installation art. Thus, you can define the digital artists as people who use this digital technology to produce the art.

- Digital Audio
This form allows you to record, store as well as reproduce the sound by encoding the audio signal in a digitized form. The digital audio systems may include a host of thing including compression, storage, processing as well transmission elements.

- Digital Video
Its functioning remains the same as that of digital audio. It’s just that it works by using a digital video signal.
These are some of the most common forms of digital media, apart from this there are also various other forms of media used in diverse fields.

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