Have online videos lowered the standards of television production?

I don't necessarily think that creating online videos and viewing them has lowered the standards of television production. The main way of getting access and publishing your own videos is YouTube, most of the videos that have been producted for Youtube are shot on low cost video cameras, or in some ocassions cameras in which are typically used for video calls on something like MSN. Youtube is a good way of posting your own videos and in some cases being spotted, an example of this is Justin Bieber, who went on to getting a recording contract after being spotted as talent on youtube.


I don't think there is much competition between online content which has been filmed in domestic conditions and those that have been filmed professionally. What i'm trying to put across is, alot of the footage in which has been filmed isnt great and if programmes such as eastenders used the same cameras and ways of filming it wouldn't look right. I think domestic videos are more fun to watch, and are interesting whereas alot of proffessionally filmed productions a much different aspect of media. 

On the other hand, i don't think that productions have as much pressure than before home-movies etc became popular. Paranormal activity ( the film ) is a great example of this. The film is basically an hour which looks like its been filmed as a home movie and they have used low-budget equipment to do so, this movie was very effective in stuff they were trying to put across and worked well. I think this movie is an example of opportunities in which proffesional companies could take on boared due to home-videos becoming more popular and are growing in amount, every day. 

 

This is a a shot from the film, paranormal actvity, as you can see its nothing clever and has an effect which makes it look like a normal homevideo. 

In conclusion, i think that online videos which have been domestically shot work well for the use of online viewing only, unless they are being interpretad into a movie which needs that online, low budget feel to it. Other than that i think that professional productions and domestic should be kept seperate. 

How has the digital world changed the way we consume and create TV?

Due to the constantly changing digital world it has had a massive effect on the ways in which we are able view television. In the digital world you are able to watch television on most devices in which have access to the internet. Ps3's have also started to take on the ability to watch BBC Iplayer on them, many years ago when playstations first came out they would have been used primarily for playing games on and wouldnt have all this ability to stream music and "videos on demand" this is also the same for Wii's and Xbox.  I think using playstations etc. as an ability to watch online tv has helped it to become more popular due to the fact alot of people have either a Xbox360, Playstation or even a Wii, the only problem with watching it on the games console is it doesn't work as well as it would on an actual computer. 
Not only are you able to get Iplayer on your Games console, there are ways now in which you are able to get it sent straight to your phone, the iphone is a common example of this. I think that having iplayer sent to your phone, or any tv steam in the matter, is a good way to watch digital TV due to phones being easily accesible, portable and most commonly is something you would take to places without a second thought. 
Another massive change is due to televisions being so big in future years they wouldn't have been atal portable and you would have had to have kept them at home, (although you couldn't exactly carry a 52") on the other hand the portable TVs in which were first created were massive compared to the small ones we can get in this day and age, infact most of them are about 1/4th of the size. 

These pictures show the differences within portable TVs in the years.

 

The first obvious difference between both film cameras and digital cameras is the amount of time it takes for the end product to be produced, with a digital camera its basically done instantly whereas with a film it takes ages to finally proccess it and get the finished product. due to the finished product being produced alot quicker this means that the images are able to be streamed alot faster and be able to be made into a finished project. Also, with Digitial video cameras in some occasions you are able to stream the footage straight from your camera to some sites such as youtube, myspace or even facebook, ok this wouldn't be the best quality and wouldnt be the best ever video made but it opens up ways to access and produce your own home video, especially with the growing media world in which youtube is a great link to success.  Digital images can be displayed at a very high resolution. Some problems people face with a digital camera is the actual viewing screen can be quite blurry so you're not getting a true image. Video cameras also give you a wider range of things you are able to do, such as shoot in high defention. With a tape camera you wouldn't be able to capture in high quality, as the end product wouldnt be as great. Also when it comes to editing a piece, with a digital camera you are able to upload the footage onto a computer and load it into the software compared to having to sit down and chop things up, trying to piece them all together. Lastly, the upside of a digital camera is that its alot cheaper to proccess than it would be getting a film developed. 

Editing has improved a great deal during the years, we are now able to buy a Mac and get good editing software to go onto it, such as final cut pro and after effects. The only downside of going through this process is its quite expensive. Back in the days before computers people would sit down with their clip reels and they would cut them up and place them back together into a machine which would also have the audio on, it would be like piecing a jigsaw back together, doing it this way would be a much longer process and you would have to keep very organised to make sure you didn't lose anything. Final cut pro, is one of many "proffesional" editing softwares available today.

Brief History Of TV in the UK and abroad

Tv has come along way and is still developing in the way we consume it aswel as the ways its been transmitted. 
First of all Zworykin invented a device that was able to convert light waved into electrical impulses, this was then followed up by Baird who created the first television set.
Baird moved to England where he applied himself to follow his dream of making television. Baird successfully managed to transmitt a flickering image in 1924 which could be picked up a few feet away. In 1926 he gave the first demonstration of television from real images to the world.

John then moved on to making his own television company which was named the "Baird Television Development Company" his company managed to achieve the first transalatlantic television transmition between London and New York and also managed to transmit television a ship which was in the mid-alantic ocean. 
1929 was a bigish year for Baird where he managed to get the facilities to develop an experimental television service, this was given to him by the German post office, this meant that television had now been introducted to both Germany and the United Kingdom.
The only problem in which they were faced with was because Baird had spent so long trying to fix his idea it ended up becoming obsolete as new electric systems were being designed because of this in 1937 John Baird's system was dropped and people started using Marconi's system. During 1941 John Baird works on his own, after his company had gone into liquidation and manages to create and demonstarate his own 600 line HDTV colour system for televisions. 
in 1943, Zworykin, as mentioned above manages to develop his own camera tube, this gets named Orthicon.

 

Between  1948 and 1992 there is a massive increase in television sets which were in peoples houses. During1948 there was roughly 1 million sets,to which half of them were in colour! In 1992 there was a massive increase to 201 million homes in which had a television. (United States) Worldwide there is roughly 900 Million television sets being used, most of them by now would have been in colour too. 

Television is still developing today, i from a site i used for research;  

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/08-television-invention-timeline.htm   it says;

"The US switch-off of all analogue terrestrial TV broadcasts is scheduled to begin NO LATER THAN February 17, 2009

The UK switch-off of all analogue terrestrial TV broadcasts is scheduled to begin in 2008. The last regions will be switched off in 2012

A UK Digital Terrestrial replacement, called Freeview, enables analogue television sets to receive prrogrammes"

PAL and NTSC are both TV standards. Pal, in which stands for Phase Alternating Line is the United Kingdom's television standard whereas NTSC stands for National Television System Committe, this is based in the United States. Due to the standards being rather different if you brought a DVD in the United States and wanted to play it in the United Kingdom, it may not work, to make it playable on your system you would have to reformat it to make it become suitable for playing on your own DVD player. First of all PAL sends its frames as 25 per second whereas with NTSC it sends them at a greater 30 frames per second. Frames per second is basically talking about how many images are transmitted per second of viewing. NTSC TV's have a tint in which allows the viewer to change the colour of the picture, meaning that the the colour correction for these systems are as manual. Pal on the other hand is different and uses phase alternation which basically means the waves get sent altenrnativly, because of this any major errors are able to be picked up and sorted out, this also means that there is no major need for any sort of tint as the colour corrections is done automatically. NTSC faults are occasionally visible to the naked eye,  unlike PAL. 

 As mentioned above NTSC transmitts at 30 frames per second because of this the tv images will be alot faster than those shown on a PAL television, this helps the overall image to be alot better on a PAL TV set that those you would get on NTSC. Secondly the NTSC only transmitts with 525 resoloution lines compared to PAL with a much higher number of 625 lines of resolution, this means that PALs resolution and picture quality will be alot better and higher than NTSC. 
Another major difference between the two standards is where infact they are able to be viewed, NTSC is designed for basically most of South and North America, compared to Pal in which can be viewed in European countries. 

 The way in which we consume Television has changed greatly over the years. First of all the stations have had a massive change since when television was first about. John Baird used to stream his television signals from his own company before it went into liquidation, soon to follow was the first ever station which is still going today, this was of course the BBC. Soon to follow this was BBC2 and ITV. In 1982 Channel 4 was introduce, this was another station in which allowed commercials this changed the way in which television was viewed. As tv developed satellite tv was soon to follow and in 1989 the launch of BSB finally happened, but it didn't stop there, in 1990 there was the massive launch of Sky. Sky allowed you to watch more channels than just the four terrestrial channels in which you were getting from anologue signals. After Sky the last of "5"  terrestrial channels were launched, this was infact "Channel 5"
When televisions were first created they were rather big and had alot of parts to them, now you are able to get the thin plasma TVs and LCD Tvs along with the massive increase within the amount of high defenition available, they are becoming more and more popular. TV's are also changing due to just being able to get a little screen you are able to get screens in which are about 52" for your own homes. 

 










Not only has television developed within becoming alot smaller and the use of digital channels and freeview, you are now able to get "VOD"  which stands for video on demand. Video on demand allows you to select what TV programme you want to watch through online television streaming. An example of this is the hit 4OD which is channel 4's "Video on demand" website. 4OD allows viewers to go to their website and select a programme they may have missed, for example Hollyoakes and watch it all online. 
The availability to televisions has increased too. Years ago only a few houses on a street would actually have a working television, and some places, for example a hall... when something important came on television, like a royal wedding, people would gather at houses in which there was a television and would all watch the programme together, in modern day this doesn't happen due to homes commonly having more than one television, the only near example to this would be people going to the pub to watch a football match or something along these lines.
On the other hand, television and online viewing is not the only way in which people now can consume television! phones and even Ipods are now allowing you to have the ability to get TV streamed straight to your phone, or even just highlights of something like a sports scores. 
Television is still developing today, 3D has been brought into the cinemas and i don't think it will be long until its being streamed into our own houses (even though sky 3D already exists)