Introduction to Multimedia
Multimedia has become a popular technology in the ever changing world of computers. Since last few years, it seems to be much sought after and talked about, not only in the world of Information Technology, but also in various functional 'fields like advertisement, corporate sector, cinema, fashion design and education, to name a few.
Fig - FingerPrint Multimedia
More and more research work on this new technology of sound, animation, video and text, is making it better and better with, every passing day. It is one of the most realistic way of working even for people having no knowledge of computers. It targets people from almost all ages of life from a toddler to an aged one. In fact it does not have any lower or upper limit for its target audience.
Multimedia technology along with powerful communication technology make a very powerful interactive communication environment useful for collaborative working. Through this technology a home office is now equipped with a computer, having speech and touch screen input, camera for video conferencing, or may be environment of virtual reality. An office worker no longer have to travel in aeroplanes or cars to reach to his office. He will be attending meetings, getting relevant information and performing all other duties from his home.
Multimedia - The Concept
With the fast growing technology the computational speed and data communication media are enhancing rapidly. Thus, it is not surprising that many multimedia-related applications are emerging.
But, what is Multimedia? How is it related to computer and communication speed?
The term multimedia is often associated with the information superhighway, or with interactive TV that can produce videos (information on demand) or with hypermedia. In fact, there is a lot of confusion about the definition of multimedia. However, multimedia can be considered as text, graphics, images, video and audio in computer.
One of the key features of multimedia is Interactivity. It may convey enriched interactive information to its users. Some people visualize multimedia as a combination of computer and TV, whereas, another definition considers it as a new generation of computer application where newer hardware and software architectures are needed.
In practical sense multimedia is the combination of a computer itself and a computer software productboth. The fact remains that it has the best potential to be one of the most powerful form of communicating ideas, searching for information and experiencing new concept of common media ever developed.
The basic advantage of multimedia over the conventional form of media which uses sound, graphics and text for example TV audio etc. is the interactive feature of multimedia. For example, a .multimedia version of television is the Interactive Digital Television which is being getting famous now-a-days.
Some of the sub-technologies which hike through multimedia are video servers, multimedia groupware, network resource management, and hypermedia courseware etc.
The greatest applications of multimedia is IDTV, Recent Mobile phones, Multimedia Audio systems, Finger print Multimedia , Laptops and most of the video devices etc.
This gives just a definition about multimedia. Let us discuss the other details about multimedia in future.
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