Computers Technos: Mediaworld and 25 years of flyers

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Mediaworld and 25 years of flyers – BBC

strangest forms such as Chic top left with “Two lines of text and 128 Mb.” The central part of the leaflet provides a duel between the brightest in the world of streaming music, the one between Creative, manufacturer of sound cards and represented here by Zen, and Apple with its iPod. Needless to say who won the day

Here we are Europeans in 2004, memorable for the victory of Greece on the landlord, Portugal. As usual in the football events are the televisions to dominate and here are two nostalgic elements. First there is the word “flat”, dish, to stand out from the convexity of cathode ray tubes, then there is the 16: 9 format that was trying to make his way through the prevailing but dying 4: 3

The 2005 video game was quite eventful. Microsoft pointed to its Xbox 360, as indicated by the caption, it was not just a gaming machine. There are indeed “the pictures, videos and so much more,” without forgetting “the broadband Internet connection to play and fantastic world of Xbox Live.” The competitor pointed to the Playstation 2 game without controller with the Eye Toy camera while Consolina Nintendo DS went on the net thanks to the USB stick

In 2006, we were ready for the World Cup but also for high definition. The TV all the time wore a label forgotten ‘HD ready’ to emphasize that met the standards to display the high-definition signal. Of commercially Full HD there is no sign, but we did not care: in that year saw Italy triumph at the World Cup in Germany against France and nobody paid any attention to the definition. It was enough to see the goals

Hard times for computer science in 2007. In fact, Microsoft was looking for a new path graphics with Windows Vista, one of the most criticized operating systems ever. Among the nostalgic elements we also read of “DVD RW Dual Layer burners’ onboard laptops without forgetting one of the most famous of all time CPU, the Intel Pentium

The year 2008 has increased from only eight years old but already seems prehistoric. A surprise, in leaflets, is the constant presence of “mobile phones”, a sector still dominated by Nokia, but in which always faces more forcefully Samsung. In the lower-end devices instead here we are no longer, the PDA, the grandparents of the smartphone. They had a large screen, camera, touchscreen and programs that would later be called simply app

Who does not remember netbooks, those mini computer that they dream full mobility that we will have truly achieved with the tablet? We are in 2009 and the flyer gives us this HP with Atom CPU, famous processor designed just for its low fuel consumption which still exists but the operating system betrays the age of the device. It is Windows XP, one of the best ever

A curious object check the flyers in 2010. It is defined ebook reader but also has the capacitive stylus. Besides reading books then also the mp3 player. Since the smartphone still struggling for their place in the sun, the liquid music had not found a home, and so the devices to play it were the most disparate

Forgotten experience instead of Vista, Microsoft in 2010 returns to the assault of the PC with Windows 7

We are approaching us coming to 2012 when the leaflets begin to talk about curved TV. Samsung clearly is to lord it thanks to its huge 65-inch panels also feature the 3D technology that you thought would revolutionize the industry and instead turned out to be a flash in the pan.

The 2013 greets the arrival of the first Surface, Microsoft’s tablet with the keyboard cover with trying to spread the idea of Windows mobile, a rival iPad able to bring the same PC experience in a small device, lightweight and powerful. We see from the display interface to check the tiles familiar today while the on-board operating system is Windows RT

Apple in 2014 surprised the market with the iPad Mini, small or large tablet smartphone with “a beautiful 7.9-inch LED backlit display.” As evidenced by the following pages, mobile devices have become the dominance of all other technology products. TV and appliances still have a dedicated space but photographic machines and computers are swallowed up by these small objects that take their place

The iPhone 6 greets us from 2015, the year in which the first commercial OLED TV we also signed LG

And we close this trip with the February flyer that reminds us of the 25th anniversary of the company that April 14 will open its 110th store (in THE CENTER Arese). A quarter of a century during which the world has changed and the technology even more. A world where we have gone from CRT all’Oled, dall’Amiga 600 a Mac Book Pro, from the phone to the smartphone.

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