Computer games and websites rely heavily on sound to engage users. DVDs also use sound to accompany visuals and create mood. Mobile phones now have many sound functions beyond calls, like music players and app notifications. While analog recording has better sound quality and requires skill, digital audio allows for faster editing and manipulation but requires expensive converters and frequent technology updates.

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programme and
APPLICATIONS wanted to catch up
there wouldn't be
EBSITES much point in
ebsites use sound a lot for example you may watching it if there
go onto a website with background noise or was no sound would there?!
video’s, a great example DVD INTERFACES
of this is YouTube. This
DVD’s use sound in the same way as a lot
website relies heavily on ‘This would mean the
of websites do, to entertain. DVD’s don’t
sound there for if sound viewer would engage necessarily use it in a practical way, they
didn't work on this
with the film .’ use it to accompany the moving picture that the
website they would loose
all of their profits and DVD would show. What I mean by not in a practical
wouldn’t be much point in being up. This applies way is for example a practical way of using sound would be
to a lot of music, video or TV catch-up websites an ambulance. DVD’s use sound to create a mood or feeling
such as muvids, yahoo videos, vivo, BBC iPlayer, to the viewer, this would mean the viewer would engage
4OD and a lot more. These websites use sound to with the film or show that’s showing on the DVD.
entertain the viewers for example if you missed a

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APPLICATIONS DISADVANTAGES
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used in film, they use it to engage the audience.
Instead of having a boring old normal power point
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going from slide to slide you may engage your FOR SOUND.
audience with an interactive power point using
hyperlinks and music.
COMPUTER GAMES The advantages of analog is that it takes more
time, requires skill to use and generally sounds
Computer games use a lot of sound and music to
better. The disadvantage of analog is that you
go with the fast moving picture. A great example
really need to know what you’re doing, you have
of how sound is used and everyone knows about is to make decisions you can’t “fix” later, and it takes
‘PACMAN’ as the moving picture moves the sound time for the machine to locate and park the tape
accompanies it. Although ‘PACMAN’ isn’t really before you can take another crack at an
played any more but sound has advanced into overdub.
other computer games like Mass Effect 3, Trials
Evolution and Mark of the Ninja.
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Mobile phone’s use sound in many ways starting DISADVANTAGES
OF DIGITAL
with text/phone/e-mail tones, alarms, mp3
players, reminders, apps. Phones have come a
long way since the ‘bricks’ and now many have
built in mp3 players and game apps which require
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sound or music. A lot of phones, iPhones being
one, have typing clicks which is just another way
FOR SOUND.
mobile technology now use sounds. The sounds
that mobiles use need to be carried a far way as
The advantages of digital is that it is faster to
you need to hear the ringing. use when working, storage costs way less and
there are far greater editing and manipulation
powers at your fingertips. The disadvantage to
digital is that you have to invest great big piles
of show biz cash into converters if you want it to
sound even close to good analogue, and that the
technology becomes antiquated every few years
[aside from great converters which seem to be
close to having a "life span"] and that re-
investment is constant [as opposed to analogue
where "routine maintenance" is an far smaller
expense].