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1.1.1 The History ofMultimedia
Computerswith multimediafeatures were introduced in the 199OEs.Before that, there was no technologycapable of providinginformativemultimediaat an affordablecost. In its early days, multimediatechnologywas not very well received

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Multimedia technology was considered to be an invention gimmick of the computer industry. Nowadays,the view towards the importance of multimedia is very different. For the past decade, this technology has been studied and explored and now, multimediais one of the main components of convergenttechnology.

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Thefirst personal computer wasmarketed. It hada low processing powerandwas usedmainlyfor accounting and
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Thestorage capacity of the hard-disk was increased. Computers coulddisplaysimplegraphics andwereusedfor statistics andforecasting.
Computers werecapable of displaying colors,moresophisticated graphics, animation andsound.Theywereusedin wordprocessing anddesktoppublishing.

Computers at this stagewerecapable of integrating digitalvideo, audio,animation andtext in a digitalenvironment. As a result,it increases the emphasis on communication andsharingof information throughnetworks suchas the Internet.

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Each multimedia application involves interactivity with end-users.

Users can take part actively in the multimedia applications and not passively as in the conventional components of media. This is because the

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co-Rom (Compact Disk ReadOnly-Memory) isthe basic

hardware of a multimedia computer system.Compact disc technology has successfullyincreasedthe capacityof the computerfor storing and retrieving
CDROM&#39;s main advantage,besidesits speed, is its ability to store

moredata. Usuallya CDROMcan store650 megabytes of dataon its single side. This makes it the main choice for softwaredevelopingcompanies becauseof its ability to transfer a big amountof video, audio, graphicsand
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In November1995,a consortiumof cabletelevisionindustryleadersannounced agreement with key equipmentmanufacturers to specifysome of the technicalways cable networksand data equipmenttalk with one another.3COM,AT&T,COM21,General Instrument, HewlettPackard,Hughes,Hybrid,IBM, Intel, LANCity,MicroUnity, Motorola, Nortel,Panasonic, ScientificAtlanta,Terrayon, Toshiba,and Zenithcurrentlysupply cable modemproducts.Cablemodemsoperateat speeds 100to 1,000times as fast as a telephone modem,receivingdata at up to 10Mbpsand sendingdata at speedsbetween2Mbpsand 10 Mbps.They can providenot only high-bandwidth Internetaccessbut also streamingaudio and videofor televisionviewing.Mostwill connectto computers with 10baseTEthernet
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lnputdevicescollect data and programs that are readable or

understandable by humansand convertthem into forms that can be processedby computers. There are many types of input devices such as keyboard, mouse, touch screen, camera and voice input devices that can be used to developand distributea multimediaproject.

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4) Voicelnput Devices
The voiceinputdeviceconvertshumanspeeches to digitalcode. The most widely used voice input device is the microphone. The microphoneis the hardwareneededto recordsound or voice in a multimedia computer. It is usuallyusedfor onlineconversations or
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projectdependson the natureof the multimedia application that you are developing and the type of computerthat you are using.Amongthemare the CathodeRayTube(CRT)monitorand the portablemonitorcommonly knownas the LiquidCrystalDisplay(LCD)monitor.

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