Digital Media Types & Devices - players & readers
Above are different media :CD/ DVD, thumb drives, power outlet to charge things with USB connection.
Digital Media
Information can be in books, photos, charts, or in sound or video files.
These can be scanned or digitized, which makes them compact and easy to find, read, print, copy, etc.
Comparing the size of digital files from the smallest to the largest:
- typed materials is smallest (in digital size) of books or articles, next larger are:
- photos, then audios, then videos. A DVD disc holds a 2 hour movie may take nearly 5 Gyga bytes. In that same amount of space you might store 2,000 full length typed books or 100 five minutes of song or audio lectures. You can send by e-mail files up to 1 to 3 Mega Bytes, maybe a book, or many photos, not a video.
Files can be put on the various devices or media shown in photo and handed to or mailed to people in compact digital form.
Some people seek only 1 particular file. If you have on CD, chip or thumb drive many files, then it is handy to have a file management program like:
- Total Commander or Index Your Files (both free form the internet) so you can find, preview, copy, move, read or print any of all the files or move a file to an mp3 or media player to watch it , or listen to it.
Look among many files and choose what you want to read, copy, print, hear or watch.
When you get files, (you may be able to) copy them and then return the chip or hard drive to the owner or send them to someone else.
Above is a photo of different types of media and even a media player.
All can hold content: files, videos, audio, photos, etc. The one on the right is also a media players (for audio, video, & even text files).
You can put a video in an mp3 player, but you can't play it.
But you could carry it over to a tablet or a computer where you could view, copy or play it.
Many people confuse all these separate devices/ media:
- digital storage (on chips or media like CD or DVD), or on media or mp3 players,
- file types: Video: VOB, AVI, WMV, ... Audio: mp3, WMA, wav, Documents: doc, txt, rtf, and more.
You can put data, books,
photos, audios on a CD or DVD disc. A DVD disc is not just for video.
But other content (data, photos) cannot be read on a DVD player, but they MAY be
read on a computer DVD disc drive.
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Total Commander
is a simple way to find, view, copy or move any file from any place to another
place,
within your hard drive or out to & from media or even media players, tablets,
androids and phones or their chips.
Learn of Total Commander here: https://www.abodia.com/l/tc
Media needs a player or a reader.
Chips need a card reader, either with a device like 2 by 3: with USB cable.
or some computers have a card reader slot in the computer.
Mp3 players, media player, androids, cell phones or tablet may attach to a computer or tablet via a USB cable. (They have several different connections).
One end of the USB cable to your computer is the same physical connection but
there are many different heads or connections at the other end of the cable to various devices: mp3 players, tablets, card readers or chips.
The cable can carry the signal only or it can supply power or be used to charge a device like an mp3 player or tablet.
You can charge devices from a wall electrical outlet or by connection to a USB port on a computer.
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I have source files !!! They are much better then what I could tell you.
I have a vast web site with 20,000 pages,
but I have 1,000 times that on my hard drive.
I have & share 1/2 million files.
I can send them to you for free, or you come here and get them
Videos, audios, books, articles, photos, PowerPoint; on many subjects, law, history, health, suppressed technologies, etc.
If you learn to use your computer or tablet or mp3 player, I can give you fascinating content.
Many are unique and not available from libraries, or even the Smithsonian or Library of Congress.
I collect what is not popular - what we are not suppose to know or think about.
You, by yourself, can determine that it is true - if you want to. www.ThoughtPrint.org is a simple way to find/ confirm things.
Many people like printed books or store bought videos.
Fine, good luck, those things cost money to get and to mail.
I work in a digital world, I go faster and far more diverse.
I quickly and easily built a Crowd of Witnesses, or a Body of Facts.