2. The Impact of ICT in Entertainment?
ICT has impacted entertainment and leisure by
enhancing and providing us with different ways
in which we would casually spend our time.
With the use of these technologies, the ways in
which we can entertain ourselves has
dramatically increased.
3. Impact of ICT on Entertainment
• An advantage to this is that anyone can get
access to almost anything on the internet from
online games to videos on youtube
• However, the development of these
technologies has meant that many people stay
inside, watch TV, play online games etc.
Therefore you couild say that the amount of
leisure activivies that people do have decreased
with aspect to the wide range of entertainment
technologies.
4. ICT has made a huge impact on entertainment
and on how we spend our time casually. This
indicates that the increase in technologies
provides us with more ways of entertaining
ourselves. Many things that did in the past can
now be done on the computer more easily.
Now almost anyone can easily get access to
things like music, music videos and online games
with the touch of a button.
5. Examples of Entertainment in ICT
ICT provides users with a great number of entertainment.
Here are the main ones:
Playing computer games can be a popular leisure
activity. They are published for personal computers. An
individual player can play against the computer or can
compete against other players.
The internet is used as a channel for the distribution of
music through music download websites.
Using ICT enables you to communicate with others and
socialise online with friends using certain websites like
Facebook.
The next slide explains some of these in more detail
6. Music in ICT
• Back in the 1950’s there were only vinyl records and the radio. Today we
listen and gather our music in a number of ways which all consist of ICT.
• The invention of the compact disc made a huge leap in sound quality- no
more hiss crackle in the old vinyl records.
• We can pay for a music track in an online music store and download it to
our computer, laptop or personal mp3 player
Advantages:
ICT allows you to have many ways of listening to music, on the move or
through our living room
Disadvantages: The music indsutry is so concerned about illegal copying
that Digital Rights Management (DRM) methods have become common.
These sometimes cause a problem when trying to listen to perfectly
legal music.
7. Videos
Now It is so easy for anyone to catch up with any
TV episode they have missed or any programmes
by going online and watching it. Many of the main
TV channels such as BBC and ITV have their own
websites and players like bbc iplayer where anyone
can watch something they missed on that certain
channel.
The good thing is that you only need access to a
computer and internet and you can watch it
whenever you feel but the bad thing is that the
video can be slow and take time to load.
