Digital Media Hardware

Some of the data in this section little out of date, but make sure you understand the concepts.

Many of the tools used to created and delivered digital media products are digital tools. Digital tools are rather new tools for media people. It was only 5 to 10 years ago that we began editing video on a computer. Web pages have only been popular for about 7 years. These new tools have brought about a revolution in the way that products are created and delivered. The computer is the main tools of people creating digital media, but there is also digital cameras, digital tapes, CD-ROM's, scanners, printers, and others.

The Computer is the main tool for creating digital media. The computer uses digital data to process information for the creation of media. The computer uses "digital"- binary code to process data. This binary code is a series of 1 and 0 that are processed mathematically by the computer to represent images, text, sound, video, etc.

Read this simple explanation of Binary Code.