Vinyl- The first "ownable" music
Also called a Gramophone Record is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove. Gramophone records were the primary medium used for populae music reproduction for most of the 20th century, replacing the phonograph cylinder, which it has co-existed by the 1920s. By the late 1980s, digital media had gained a larger market share, and the vinyp record left the mainstrema in 1991. However, they continue to be manufactured and sold in the 21st century.
with 2.9 million units shipped that year, the most since 1998. They are especially used by DJs and audiophiles for many types of music. As of 2011 vinyl records continue to be used forThe vinyl record regained poplulairty by 2008 with nearly 2.9 million u
distribution of independant and alternative music artists. More mainstream pop music released tend to be sold in CD or other digital formats.
Walkman is a Sony endorsed product that was originally used for portable audio cassette and was the first of it's kind. The device was built in 1978 by audio-division engineer Nobutoshi Kihara for Sony co-chairman Akio Morita, who wanted to be able the listen to operas during his frequent trans ent-Pacific plane trips. The original Walkman was marketed in 1979 as the Walkman in Japan, the Soundabout in many other countries including the US, Freestyle in Sweden and Stowaway in the UK. Advertising, despite all the foreign languages still attracted thousands of buyers. Then when the introduction of CD became available, the walkman sales and cassette sales dropped dramatically.
Death of CD's?
Allow me to introduce the compact disc
Also known as compact disc it is an optical disk used to store digital data. The Compact Disc is a "spin-off" of Laserdisc technology. Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976. 2 years following this they demonstrated an optical digital audio disc with a 150 minute playing time. On the 8th March 1979 "Philips" publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical disc at a press conference called "Philips Introduce Compact Disc". This demonstration showed that it is possible by using digital optical recording and playback to reproduce audio signal to superb stereo quality. Up until then there had been vinyl records and walkmans for purchasing music for the owners personal use. Now the playback had a better quality to the songs and therefore more desirable to users all over the world, and soon became very popular.
However, as the internet was soon introduced CD sales began to drop slowly at first, then rapidly as online downloading and online shopping became available. In the last 10 years CD sales have been dropping worldwide while digital download sales are rising rapidly. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), digital sales will account for a quarter of all worldwide music sales by 2010. CD sales in the UK have dropped 10% in the first half of this year(2007), while download purchases have increased by 50%. Richard Gooch, head of technology at IFPI, said: "CDs remain a very popular format for buying music in the digital era - indeed as CDs are a digital format they actually kick-started the digital age. "The CD remained the most popular Christmas present in Britain last year. Despite the rise of downloading we expect that the CD will be here for many years to come."
Rise of the iPod
297,000,000 units sold world wide(2010)- iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by a company known as Apple and designed by Jonathan Ive announced on October 23, 2001 and released on November 10th 2001. As with many other digital music players, iPods can also serve as external data storage devices. Storage capacity varies by model ranging dorm 2GB to 160GB. All of the models are redesigned throughout the 10 years they have been selling. The nano has had 3 re-designs the touch- 2 and the iPhone has 2 and under a 3rd and finally the shuffle- 3. Apple's iTunes software can be used to transfer music to the devices from computers . iTunes and its alternatives may also trnasfer photos, videos, games contact info e-mail and many more features.
