Movies Tv Flashcards
Antitrust decision of 1948
Forced studios to sell their theaters. More power to director and actor
Star system
Long term contracts with studios they could be loaned. Blacklisted if tv
Movie business model
Get people to watch it Audiences have been declining by 5% due to ticket prices DVD rentals are biggest money generator VOD, netflix cable Licensing deals and product placement
Outlook
Digitization
Cheaper but can lead to piracy
Functions of TV
Entertainment, surveillance, correlation and cultural transmission
Louis May
Discovered photo conductivity
Cathode ray tube
A device in which electrons are transmitted to a screen for viewing
John Logie Baird
Invented Baird TV. The first mechanically scanned tv deceive to warn money from sending pictures through the air
Cable tv
The main focus initially was the bring tv signals into communities where over the jar reception was nonexistent due to terrain or weather
Coxial cable
Insulated and layered conducting wire typically about .5 inches thick
Optical fiber
Faster, higher capacity, transparent filament
Multicast
Simultaneous transmission of multiple channels of compressed content or same content but at different times