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¶ … David Pogue's column, entitled, "Fisher's Tiny New Camcorder," introduces a new product brand that markets video recorders sans the conventional video tapes. This new technology, called the "tapeless camcorders," functions both as a video recorder and as digital camera. Tapeless camcorders, in order to record images and videos, use memory cards that are capable of storing data for a few minutes (Panasonic brands can record up to 10 minutes of video). Pogue addresses both the advantages and disadvantages of tapeless camcorders. Indeed, tapeless camcorders are revolutionary in that it provides camcorder users and consumers with lightweight and easy-to-handle video recording devices. Furthermore, it is easier to manipulate than video recorders that uses tapes, primarily because takes a while to rewind or forward certain images in the video, unlike memory cards, which enables users to select among the images available in the video footage. Pitfalls that Pogue mentions about the product, however, include the expensiveness, poor video quality, inefficiency of memory cards in recording long, even, extended video footage. Thus, even if these new tapeless camcorders join the hype of new technologies, subsisting to the credo that "smaller is better," tapeless camcorders do not provide the convenience, cheap cost, and high quality of taped video recordings. Nevertheless, further developments of this new product in the market can yield to better solutions to some of its problems. Greater memory capacities...
Furthermore, lightweight and digital video recording technology can possibly improve and be linked to developments of mobile phone, computer, and Internet technologies, where video recording features are fast becoming popular among these media.#
Newsweek's article "Soon, a (Nearly) Free Way to Phone Home," written by N'gai Croal and Jonathan Adams, introduces to their readers the new technology called "telephony." Telephony technology is defined by the authors as "a way... To make free or inexpensive phone calls over their... dial-up Web connections." This new technology integrates together mobile phone/telephone, video, and Internet technologies to achieve one primary objective: to communicate via this multi-media technology. Using an Internet connection, users can enjoy communicating with people from any part of the world (who utilizes the same technology) and be able to talk and see them, that is, converse with them, in real time. Telephony technology is revolutionized in this article as a new, cheap way to communicate, since "residential IP (Internet Protocol) telephony is generally cheaper than traditional phone services." Indeed, for individuals who value constant communication with other people, telephony technology provides wider avenues for people to be socially in contact with other while on the…
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Croal, N. And J. Adams. January 5, 2004. "Soon, a (Nearly) Free Way to Phone Home." Newsweek, Vol. 143, No. 1. p. 6.
Pogue, D. January 22, 2004. "Fisher's Tiny New Camcorder." New York Times Online Edition. Available at: www.nytimes.com.
____. January 29, 2004. "Prestige or Pixels?" New York Times Online Edition. Available at: www.nytimes.com.
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