Friday, March 7, 2008

Analog vs Digital

Analog usage in my life has been slowly decreasing.  All the movies that I have on video tapes are just collecting dust.  I no longer watch them and some of them don't even work.  However, I do still use a VCR to record shows on TV because we don't have TiVo.  Nowadays the digital world is starting to take over my life.  Whether I like it or not I had to adapt to digital.  Everything is being done on computers nowadays.  For example, registration was done over the internet and if you didn't have a computer then you wouldn't be registered for classes.  Even movies are starting to be done digitally.  Movies like 300, lord of the rings, and star wars all made digitally.  You can even watch movies and tv shows over the internet.
The good thing about analog is that it gives you a more real image.  The bad thing about analog is that it is hard to replace, which is the reason why my video tapes are no longer being used.  They also have a limited amount of space that you store data in.  Digital pros are the exact opposites of the cons for analog.  Digital has more space to store data and can easily be copied.  Digital devices are also smaller in size.  The cons of using digital is that the image might appears fake.  However, technology is growing and that problem should be fixed in future years.  After looking at the pros and cons of digital and analog, I have concluded that we will be seeing a lot more digital devices in the future.

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