The Digital Media Manifesto

The Digital Media Manifesto

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Technologies

Last update: 2003/07/14

A vast array of Digital Media Technologies, necessary to provide the new functionalities enabling the Dream, have been developed.

Technology	Function
Sensor	to transform various types of signals into digits representing signal samples
Presentation	to transform digits representing signal samples into various types of signals in a form that can be perceived by human senses
Processing	to represent signals in digital form so that they can be efficiently processed
VLSI	Very Large Scale Integration, to implement signal processing functions in small-size devices
Transmission	to move bits across physical channels
IPMP	Intellectual Property Management and Protection, to enable the management of the rights to the bits and the protection against unintended use
Storage	to store bits on physical devices
Protocols	to intelligently move bits across a network between devices
Computing	to make devices that are capable of getting, processing and outputting bits
Software	to instruct computers to process bits in the way a user intended

For decades, thousands of academicians, scientists and researchers from hundreds of companies in wide swathes of industry have worked collaboratively to make this happen. Billions of dollars have been invested by Public Authorities, organisations and companies to fund this R&D work.

Obviously many of the mentioned technologies have other uses than Digital Media, but to make the Digital Media dream real, all these technologies were needed for integration.

November 1992, when the first MPEG standard was approved, can be taken as the point when Digital Media Technologies achieved a maturity such that deployment became possible.

With Digital Media Technologies becoming available it was quite natural for people to use them to create instances of Digital Media solutions and therefore realise the implicit promises for a new and better future.

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