What is multimedia?
What is multimedia
Multimedia is any combination of text, art, sound, animation, and video delivered to you by computer or other electronic or digitally manipulated means. It is richly presented sensation.
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Multimedia is a woven combination of digitally manipulated text, photographs, graphic art, sound, animation, and video elements. When you provide a structure of linked elements through which the user can navigate, interactive multimedia becomes hypermedia. When you allow an end user—also known as the viewer of a multimedia project—to control what and when the elements are delivered, it is called interactive multimedia.
The combination of multimedia technology and Internet is currently attracting a considerable amount of attention from developers and potential users alike. Many new products are being announced and marketed and the information on the Web consists of “multimedia” items.
The Internet carries a large variety of exciting multimedia applications.
Internet should evolve in order to better accommodate multimedia traffic with its rigid timing constraints.