6 Oct 1927 new York premiere of the first sound film. They became musical picture the jazz Singer. It was the first ever feature-length film to use sound synchronous replicas. This event has become the symbol of the decline of the era of silent films and the beginning of the commercial superiority of the sound films at the box office. The audio in the film was recorded in Vitafon. This is the first mass system of sound film, when the soundtrack is written on a gramophone record, and during playback the player synchronized with the film projector.
For gramplastinki used a very low speed of 33.3 rpm, and the standard frequency of shooting video increased from 16 frames in silent movies up to 24 frames per second. First verbal remark in the film “wait, Wait, you ain’t heard nothing yet” was a historic, symbolizing the beginning of the sound era.
The poster of the film the jazz Singer
6 October 1998, Microsoft released its first phone. It was the wireless model Microsoft Cordless Phone System, which is also called the PC Phone System MP-900. The MCPS system consisted of three main components: a wireless handset, base station and charging station. As modern phones, model MP-900 was able to call and receive phone calls regardless of the PC. However, the base station can be connected to computer via serial port for added functionality, including identification of the subscriber and even the integration of voice messages. In addition, Microsoft released a special application Call Manager is compatible with Windows 95 and 98 that allowed you to make and receive calls, listen to or delete voice messages, work with contacts and call history. The program automatically recorded the date, time and duration of calls. Were MCPS and functions of speech recognition and speech synthesis, but, of course, very primitive. Thus, the system understood the phrase “Call John Smith” and got the contact number if this was in the database. And the function of caller ID, called the name of an existing contact for an incoming call.
Microsoft Cordless Phone System
6 Oct 2010 the Skype app came out for Android. Now few will remember, but on Android Skype the most popular VoIP application was the program Fring. Skype was previously only available for Windows, Symbian, iOS, and Linux. The work program is supported on Android 2.1 Eclair and above. In the US, users were allowed to call over Wi-Fi only connection, in other countries, supported the work via GPRS, EDGE or 3G. At launch experts Skype tested the program on smartphones HTC and Motorola, but for some reason the app did not work on the Samsung smartphones that has upset the owners of these vehicles. In addition, in the first version of Skype for Android was missing already appeared in the Windows program video calls.
Skype and Android