Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!sdcc6!beowulf!velasco From: velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: test Message-ID: Date: 15 Jan 91 04:06:31 GMT References: <1991Jan14.162055.16075@d.cs.okstate.edu> <1991Jan14.220439.9184@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Lines: 40 Nntp-Posting-Host: beowulf.ucsd.edu 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. -- ________________________________________________ <>___, / / | ... and he called out and said, "Gabriel, give | /___/ __ / _ __ ' _ / | this man an understanding of the vision." | /\__/\(_/\/__)\/ (_/_(/_/|_ |_______________________________________Dan_8:16_|