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Institute of Technology
Portable Moving Images : a Media History of Storage Formats /
This media history explores a series of portable small cameras, playback devices, and storage units that have made the production of film and video available to everyone. Covering several storage formats from 8mm films of the 1900s, through the analogue videotapes of the 1970s, to the compression al...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2017]
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This media history explores a series of portable small cameras, playback devices, and storage units that have made the production of film and video available to everyone. Covering several storage formats from 8mm films of the 1900s, through the analogue videotapes of the 1970s, to the compression algorithms of the 2000s, this work examines the effects that the shrinkage of complex machines, media formats, and processing operations has had on the dissemination of moving images. Using an archaeological approach to technical standards of media, the author provides a genealogy of portable storage formats for film, analog video, and digitally encoded video. This book is a step forward in decoding the storage media formats, which up to now have been the domain of highly specialised technicians. |
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| Item Description: | Medien-Portabilität durch Formatreduktion. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : 3 Ausschlagtafeln |
| ISBN: | 9783110553925 3110553929 9783110552881 3110552884 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017). |