MULTIMEDIA DESIGN: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

MULTIMEDIA DESIGN: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

WHAT IS MULTIMEDIA ?

Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animation, videos and interactive content. Multimedia is contrast with media that use only rudimentary computer displays such as text only or traditional forms of printed or hand-produced materials.

Multimedia can be recorded and played, displayed, dynamics, interacted with or accessed by information content processing devices, but also can part of live performance. Multimedia devices are electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia is distinguished from mixed media in fine art by including audio, for example, it has broader scope. The term "rich media" is synonymous for interactive multimedia.

Multimedia presentation may be viewed by a person on stage, projected, transmitted, or played locally with media player. A broadcast may be a lived or recorded multimedia presentation. Broadcasts and recording can be either analog or digital electronic media technology.

Multimedia games and simulations may be used in physical environment with special effects, with multiple users in multiple users in an online networks, or locally with an offline computer, game system or simulator.