Chp 1: Introduction to Multimedia

1. Applications of Multimedia

1.1. Business

1.1.1. Presetations

1.1.2. Training

1.1.3. Marketing

1.1.4. Advertising

1.1.5. Product Demos

1.1.6. Catalogs

1.1.7. Instant Messaging

1.1.8. Networked Communicaion

1.2. Schools

1.3. E-learning

1.4. Home

1.5. Public Places

1.6. Virtual Reality (VR)

2. Delivering Multimedia

2.1. Compact disc read-only (CD-ROM)

2.2. Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)

2.3. Flash Drives

2.4. The Broadband Internet

2.5. Compact disc Rewritable (CD-RW)

2.6. Blue-ray Disc

3. Multimedia

3.1. Multi - More than 1

3.2. Media - Medium of communication

4. Combination of text, art(images), sound, animation and video.

5. Linear VS Nonlinear

5.1. Linear -Projects that are not interactive

5.2. Nonlinear - Projects wher users re iven navigational control

6. Hypertext VS Hypermedia

6.1. Hypertext - text contains link to other text

6.2. Hypermedia - not constrained to be text-based

7. Delivered to the user by electronic or digitally.

8. Type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally