Developing technologies

Shooting on Film 

The first digital cameras were developed in the late 80's and were used only on very high budget productions. Until this time all cameras used film to shoot on. Though today there are many ways to shoot a movie digitially there are still many directors and film companies which prefer the good-old fashioned method of shooting on film. Movies today which are shot on film include Django Unchained, The Fighter, The Master and Lincoln. This proves that film is very much alive and will never be fully replaced by digital as it has the backing and is the chosen method of big directors such as Quentin Tarrentino and Stephen Spielberg.  Cinema goers also have been used to the "film look" and to change to digital would upset that trend. This is similar to the circumstance last year when viewers of The Hobbit complained about the newly introduced 48 fps because it moved from the standard 24 fps.

High definition

 Modern-day HDTV as we know it was started in Japan by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation in 1970.  The JBC in 1980 came up with the concept of which included, among other things, the definition of wide screen format and 1100-line scanning structure which was the basis of HD. After 35 years of development, high definition television is finally available in the consumer marketplace. a 1080p HDTV offers about six times the Quality of a rahular 480p SDTV signal. HDTV also features a wider (16:9) aspect ratio format which is closer to what the human eye sees.  The future of HD is in jerpoady though as the new higher resolution 4K HDTVs will soon take over.  

digital Recorders

As I mentioned earlier the first digital cameras were developed in the late 80's and were used only on very high budget productions and at the time was a revolutionary technology as it cut out so much of the then considered costly and inefficient process of shooting on film. There are disadvantages of shooting digitially for reasons such a you can't achieve the true "film look" that film obviously can and unlike when shooting in film everything has to be backed up after each shot. But the advantages outweigh the disadvantages such as you don't have to wait for the film to be developed and more majorly there is no cost of the film your shooting on. Films such as the hobbit, the hunger games and sky fall are examples of fils shot on digital recording equipment. 

Pay Per View

The term "pay-per-view" did not come into general use until the late 1980s companies like the american TV stations  HBO and Showtime stated using a pay per view system to make a small amount of extra cash on there wrestling programs with prices ranging from £3.99 to £49.99. Now though this has spread to this UK and channels such as sky box office provide a pay per view service on all big boxing matches. The future if this service is looking good as you can now buy daily subscriptions to sky sports which is the most popular pay per view service in the UK.