Digital infotainment

Abstract

TV sets, set-top boxes, PVRs, home entertainment centres, home stereo and PCs: Nowadays living rooms boast more processing power and complex electronics than the early space capsules did. There is a process of switching over from analogue to digital although many opportunities opened up by the age of digital entertainment have not yet been explored. Digitisation changes everything: the production environment, transmission and, of course, media storage. Since media are now available as bits and bytes, one can use very different data channels to transmit them. The Internet is easy to use and cost effective: we can access video, music and photos. Groundbreaking changes are being made in radio, films, TV and how literature and journals are viewed. These media will be made available to us in a completely new way. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.