In our class for communication technologies we learned more about technologies we use on our daily lives. The topic that stuck to me the most however, was about Digital Television or DTV. It is a topic that talks mostly about television and gives information such as broadcasting, quality, pixels, formats, etc. There are also so many forms of watching DTV, like through cellphones, computers, and televisions. I decided to talk about this topic because I use a lot of television services. I use both OTT (Over the Top) andOTA (Over the Air) television all the time, so I thought it was the best topic I could choose to talk about.
According to the book for our class, OTT “refers toon-demand, non-broadcast, Internet-streamed video content viewed on a digital display”. This means accessing television and video content through the internet using platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or Hulu to say a few. TheOTA refers to normal television, or cable television. As I mentioned before I use these two technologies all the time. OTT for watching TV shows and movies and OTA to watch sports. The first thing I want to write about these technologies is that I use them every day and I don’t stop to think how normal it has become to watch the media that you want. I was very young when television started to evolve, so I have experienced so many changes in the technology. For example, I used to wait for a specific hour to watch my favorite show each day. There was no way of accessing the content online and binge watching it. These technologies have made it easier to consume media. Other than that, through OTA I usually watch sporting events because it’s better to watch live television through that source.
Even if I use these technologies every day, I have no idea of how they work or how they are qualified as. If someone was to talk to me about OTT or OTA before this class, I would just be completely lost. However, to be fair, it seems these terms seem to be used mostly in the U.S. Either way this information is interesting. I have always thought that learning something new each day is necessary, as long as you are truly interested in the topic. Just by having a very short taste of how digital television works, how it is qualified and how it is growing will probably make me study more about the subject. I had never bothered to research about anything regarding DTV, but now just by scratching the surface of all the information available, I realize that it is an interesting topic. That is the way in which it may affect my life going forward.
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