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yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes:

>MultiMedia is the "latest" buzzword used by the "Major" computer companys.

>The Definition eems to be a "program" that incorporates 
>all forms of information. (Text,Graphs,pictures,sounds,ect..)
>and allows a "person" to get to the information easially.
>Seems to me Multimedia is "writing computer programs for Idiots"
>ie. If it's not understandable WITHOUT thought it's too complex!.

You are definitely missing the whole picture.  Multimedia is a
paradigm.  In computers and communications, media can be differentiated
by their performance, storage, and service requirements among other
things.  A multimedia system is one that can adequately handle multiple
streams of data with differing performance requirements.  This is not a
trivial task.  Often the performance requirements of one medium are in
direct opposition to the performance requirements of another medium.
There are also problems of inter-media synchronization and all of the
problems associated with real-time systems.  Most multimedia systems
are real-time since they usually incorporate audio and video. 

One obvious use for a multimedia system would be an audio-video
conference call between executives in a very large corporation.  I
would not call this a program for idiots.  Would you recommend that
they use a multiperson version of talk or a conference call.

One goal of multimedia research is to replace the TV, telephone,
newspaper, magazine, computer, security system, lighting control, etc.
with a single multimedia terminal that can do all of the information
processing jobs.

Solutions to multimedia problems will also be instrumental in bringing
virtual reality systems to fruition.


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