The Music Industry- Technology

Throughout the 20th Century music has developed continuously and more so over the 70s 80s 90s and into the new millennium. Various technologies have been produced to make the music that we desire to hear available at home, portable, hand held and even in travel. These are through the use of such technologies as: vinyl- on record players, tapes- on Walkmans, CD's- on CD players, MP3's- on iPods. All of these technologies have developed over the years with the help of the internet also.

THE INTERNET

The internet has allowed us to watch and listen to music and the music videos that accompany some songs. For websites such as Youtube there is no limit to how many times you can view a video. However youtube does not just offer music videos it holds over 83 million different videos from documentaries, comedy shows, home made videos, exclusively captured films and videos that have been remixed and edited for viewers pleasure.Unregistered users are able to watch the videos on Youtube. Also registered users may upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users who are over the age of 18 years old and above. This is not the only website that hold videos for personal viewing there are many more, Youtube is the most successful.