Future of media

Task 1

In the future I believe that the way in people will consume media and media products will be entirely different to way in which it consumed in this moment in time. Even though media consumption is rapidly evolving and growing at a fast rate I still think that there is more that could be done to make media consumption more developed and evolved.  Over the past 50 years media has grown and evolved at its fastest and in my opinion I think we are now at the peak of media consumption technology, however I do believe that there’s a lot more that can be done to move forward in media technology and make it even bigger that it already is.

What’s next for media technology? 

 I believe that the next step in media consumption is virtual reality, I say this because of the success with gaming virtual reality helmets that are in the works things such as the oculus rift which in my opinion is just a first draft for vital reality some games companies have even started making a whole body virtual reality suite that makes you be able to feel things and give the illusion of actually feeling pain and your surroundings. There are a number of different companies trying to move into the virtual reality age. This movement will help audiences embrace and fully enjoy their games to the maximum and truly believe in the next 5 – 10 years virtual reality will be fully up and working and this will benefit the gaming media greatly. Companies such as Sony have made plans for the PlayStation 4 for include virtual reality sometime in the near future. 

Task 2

With the increase of music being download via the internet and electronically the sales of CDs in my opinion would drop as people are more likely to download or stream from there phone, tablets and laptops instead on buying an actual CD this is down to convince and the fact that its easier and instant.

Overall the internet is probably the main way that artist’s institutions make their money. The ways of getting music these days through the internet makes people less likely to go the shop and buy CD this also gives the audiences freedom to get music instantly without traveling or even leaving the house on the other hand this makes us more lazy in the long run.

With the increase of  music being purchased digitally CD sales have dropped and continue to decrease however I think that there is still the select audience that still enjoy that new CD feel and take pleasure from going out and actually buying it. For this reason alone I don’t think that CD sale will grind to a Holt and I believe that people will still continue to buy them even though they could download them and stream them via the internet.