Meanwhile, with the advent and popularity of the MP3, sales of CDs began dropping in the 2000s.

While they are primarily used for sound recording, tape machines were also important for data storage before the advent of floppy disks and CDs, and are still used today, although primarily to provide an offline backup to hard disk drives.

Starting in 2007, the company ran month long advent calendar promotions which provided free CDs and discounts throughout the holiday season.

In addition to the Yamaha DX7, the advent of inexpensive digital chips and microcomputers opened the door to real-time generation of computer music.

This troublesome device was superseded by thermionic diodes by the 1920s, but after high purity semiconductor materials became available, the crystal detector returned to dominant use with the advent of inexpensive fixed-germanium diodes in the 1950s.

The advent of powerful and inexpensive electronic and computer technologies has allowed the development of fully automated experiments studying possible interactions between mind and matter.

With the advent of digital distribution of inexpensive games on current game consoles, it is now becoming possible for independent developers to make direct deals with console manufacturers to get wide distribution for their games.

It was the usual method for a while in the late 19th century before the advent of inexpensive autoclaves.

While celestial navigation is becoming increasingly redundant with the advent of inexpensive and highly accurate satellite navigation receivers ( GPS ), it was used extensively in aviation until the 1960s, and marine navigation until quite recently.

Similarly, head per track disks were used, mostly for paging, and supplanted fixed-head drums in this application by the 1970s, but both technologies were ultimately eclipsed by the advent of inexpensive semiconductor memory.

This last barrier to DVD domination was broken in the late 2000s, with the advent of inexpensive DVD recorders and digital video recorders ( DVR ).

Before the advent of inexpensive stainless steel tanks, it was not customary to blend all the wine together and bottle it at once, a process called assemblage.

Until the advent of inexpensive audio tape recorders, the sharing of copyrighted recordings was very difficult and expensive.

With the advent of inexpensive digital cameras, many people now take candid photographs from commercial aircraft and increasingly from general aviation aircraft on private pleasure flights.

However, they began to fall out of use with the advent of the wide use of sans serif machine-set body text in the 1950s and the development of inexpensive phototypesetting machines in the 1970s, which did not require journeyman knowledge or training to operate.

Chowning's FM algorithms and the advent of fast, inexpensive, digital chips made real-time possible, and equally important, made it affordable .”

Full plate armour was expensive to produce and remained therefore restricted to the upper strata of society ; lavishly decorated suits of armour remained the fashion with 18th-century nobles and generals long after they had ceased to be militarily useful on the battlefield due to the advent of inexpensive muskets.

Breakbeat as a genre did not appear in any commercial sense until well after the advent of inexpensive digital sampling equipment.

Before the advent of inexpensive dot-matrix displays, sixteen and fourteen-segment displays were some of the few options available for producing alphanumeric characters on calculators and other embedded systems.

Issues of paternity can be disputed among the potential heirs in intestate estates, especially with the advent of inexpensive DNA profiling techniques.

To meet increasing worldwide demand for drum kits following the advent of rock and roll music, in 1961 Pearl built a factory in Chiba, Japan to produce inexpensive drum kits that bore the brand names of more than thirty distributors such as Maxwin, CB-700, Stewart, Werco, Ideal, Crest, Revelle, Revere, Lyra, Majestic, Whitehall, Apollo, Toreador, Roxy, and Coronet.

With the advent of inexpensive digital music media, fast-forwarding has most likely lost its past meaning related to the speed of a tape deck motor ( or record turntable, or another device allowing fast-forwarding ) and now may, especially as cassette tapes and other analogue media are used less and less by younger generations, only apply to the operation of moving ahead in a recording's time frame — accomplished today by simple clicking, dragging a slide image, or even via speech-recognition software.

With the advent of inexpensive machining done overseas and the overall poor perception of the security of die cast locks, they no longer dominate today ’ s padlock market.

Like many in the early 1980s, Sullivan recognized an unlimited potential in the advent of the new inexpensive handheld video cameras then coming on the market.

" Overall, the tease campaign featured looks into the future, where technology could create a utopian existence, in part brought on by the advent of inexpensive and easy to use wireless PCS phone service.

Since the advent of digital video and computerized video processing, optical disc media and digital video recorders can now perform the same role as videotape.

The advent of high-quality color videotape recorders and portable video cameras coincided with the DIY ethos of the New Wave era, enabling many pop acts to produce promotional videos quickly and cheaply, in comparison to the relatively high costs of using film.

These were very common up until about 2000, but are now fairly rare: the demise of the ISA slot added a little to the cost ; the great improvement in IDE technology ( particularly in the case of CD-ROM drives and CD recorders ) removed one major use, and the advent of USB made the expense of a SCSI interface unnecessary for most scanners.

Because of this, and combined with the advent of VHS video recorders, Polavision had a short history.

Unfortunately, the first broadcasts of these programs also predated the advent of affordable domestic videocassette recorders in Australia ( which did not come into widespread household use until the late 1970s ) so it fairly unlikely that any domestically recorded off-air copies exist.

These airchecks became more common with the advent of commercial cassette recorders.

They were mostly purchased by actors and directors to use as records and examples of their work before the advent of videocassette recorders.

This newer form of storytelling emerged with the advent of accessible media production techniques, hardware and software, including but not limited to digital cameras, digital voice recorders, iMovie, Windows Movie Maker and Final Cut Express.

While exceptionally loyal to its original consumer base, Kaypro was slow to adapt to the changing computer market and the advent of IBM PC compatible technology.

With the evolution of consumer digital camera resolution ( megapixels ), the advent of the USB interface and the rise of high-capacity storage media, Mavicas started to offer other alternatives for recording images: the floppy-disk ( FD ) Mavicas began to be Memory Stick compatible ( initially through a Memory Stick Floppy Disk adapter, but ultimately through a dedicated Memory Stick slot ), and a new CD Mavica series — which used 8 cm CD-R / CD-RW media — was released in 2000.

Before the advent of DVD and Blu-ray, the Video CD ( abbreviated as VCD, and also known as View CD, Compact Disc digital video ) became the first format for distributing films on standard 120 mm optical discs.

The practice was prevalent during the 1960s and 1970s, although it is now less common since associated storage costs have decreased, and especially since the advent of domestic audiovisual playback technology ( e. g. videocassette and DVD ), with broadcasters and production houses realizing both the economic and cultural value of keeping archived material for both rebroadcast and potential profits through release on home video.

However, with the advent of widespread high-speed Internet access, desktop video editing, DVD and Blu-ray Disc ripping, and TV capturing, the original process has largely been abandoned in favor of digital fansubbing ( digisubbing ) and electronic distribution of the resulting digisubs.

This started changing with the advent of movie releases on DVD.

As with all removable storage media, the advent of cheap CD / DVD drives and flash memory has made them largely redundant.

The advent of DVD players, with the use of their precise pause and slow-motion functions, has made it far easier to spot breaks in character in motion pictures.

On the release of AERO, Jarre commented that he had always envisioned his music in surround ; with the advent of the DVD, he could finally release his music the way he wanted.

Since 3-D was ineffective in home viewing until the advent of 3D televisions in the late 2000s, the alternative title Jaws III is used for television broadcasts, VHS and DVD.

After the advent of DVD, the term-at least in America-also gained the meaning of " a brief documentary film covering one or more aspects of the film creation process ".

Before the advent of the modern SAN and much cheaper hard disks, large-volume storage on DVD was more price-efficient than magnetic media.