Digital media

1. Digital media usually refers to electronic media, eg. Digital camera's, mobile phones, iPod's, video games, computers, televisions etc.

2. Digital media uses the Binary Number System which is "0" and "1"'s to code all data.

3. A byte is a basic unit of measurement. eg. megabyte, kilobyte, gigabyte. Bytes consist of 8 bits. A bit is a smaller unit of measurement.

4. The sampling rate defines the number of samples per second taken from a continuous signal, to a discrete one.

5. Colour depth or bit depth, is a computer grapics term decribing the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmapped image or video frame buffer. Higher color depth gives a broader range of distinct colors.


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