Interactive Media

Interactive media can come in many different types. There is the red button on televisions, apps on mobiles, tablets and smart televisions, and also websites such as youtube. They all come with their advantages and disadvantages. The red button on televisions allow people to access things such as the weather, news, lottery and sports. The lottery is probably the most common thing that people use it for. Apps on phones, tablets and smart televisions are becoming increasingly popular. Its allowing people to access catch up television such as BBC Iplayer or other services such as Netflix and now TV. Catch up tv is a very popular service as it allows people to be able to catch up with any programmes that they may have missed on television. It also gives them the chance to have unto a month to be able to watch the programme. Netflix allows people to watch newly released movies as well as some of the very old and popular movies. It also allows you to watch television series. Many people are opting to go for the option of catch up television or Netflix as it is the cheapest option available and they still get the same services. Online websites such as Youtube allow people to do a variety of things. They can search television programmes, movies, behind the scenes on filming sets, music and also just videos in general of pretty much anything they want. Youtube for me is very useful for things such as being able to search for archive footage to be able to put into my college movies they i create and edit. As well as many other people i would need to take into consideration the legal and ethical considerations of downloading videos or songs from youtube. Is it suitable for what I'm using, what are the copyright issues for the song or video? is it royalty free? if i am downloading a song or video will i be able to put my work on to the internet due to copyright issues? These are all things that me as well as many others need to take into consideration when using these kind of websites. These kinds of websites and apps are very useful and easy to access for many people with smart phones and tablets and can be accessed pretty much anywhere.  Interavtive media is used for any different reasons to many different people. It can be used in education, advertisement, entertainment and also social networking. For education it can come under two things. Being used in schools and higher education to show educational videos or for others to watch educational videos, films and television programmes. They may watch them on catch up tv or on youtube to access older videos such as things from World War 1 where it can't be accessed on catch up tv such as bbd or ITV Iplayer.  It can be used in advertisment. With many people having smart phones and playing games which is a type of interactive media, many app company will attach different types of adverts in games to try and grab peoples attention. With gaming on phones and tablets being a very popular source of entertainment this is a good way to get peoples attention with adverts, especially with less and less people watching services such as Sky and using the cheaper options such as BBC Iplayer.  Lossy and lossless are two types of compression.  Lossy is high compression that makes file types smaller. They are very commonly used with bitmap images. They eliminate any unesasary information in the file permenantly. Lossless is a low compression, high quality but compresses file types into a large size. It doesn't loose any data when compressed and also when the file is uncompressed.