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From: nick@abblund.se
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Multimedia, Hypermedia, Hypertext?
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.152809.10158@abblund.se>
Date: 12 Feb 91 15:28:09 GMT
References: <1991Feb04.124036.340@abblund.se> <3004@sodium.ATT.COM>
Organization: ABB Corporate Research, Lund, Sweden
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In article <3004@sodium.ATT.COM> esg@sodium.ATT.COM (Edward Gokhman) writes:

>Individual medias, therefore, together
>constitute a multimedia - "many medias". "Mixed medias" constitute
>a hypermedia. For example, one of the concerns of hypermedia is
>time synchronization. 

I would say that time synchronization can be a concern of multimedia, too.
For example, a rock concert with synchronized fireworks, or a slide
show with synchronized music, are both multimedia but not hypermedia.


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