If there is a term or phrase that has appeared in more diverse publications than any other over the last few years, it must be multimedia. The number of definitions for it are as numerous as the number of companies that are working on it. If this is the case, what is multimedia?
In essence, it is the use or presentation of data in two or more forms. The combination of audio and video in the humble television was probably the first multimedia application, but it has been the advent of the PC, with its ability to manipulate data from different sources and offer this directly to the consumer or subscriber, that has sparked the current interest.
As a result, multimedia for many people conjures up the image of a PC with a SoundBlaster ...
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