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multimedia
Last modified: Monday, May 17, 2004 

The use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way. Long touted as the future revolution in computing, multimedia applications were, until the mid-90s, uncommon due to the expensive hardware required. With increases in performance and decreases in price, however, multimedia is now commonplace. Nearly all PCs are capable of displaying video, though the resolution available depends on the power of the computer's video adapter and CPU.

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IMA's multimedia home page 
Home page of the Interactive Multimedia Association (IMA). Visitors can acess the IMA news journal, press releases, glossary of multimedia terms, and CD-MATCH, a program designed to help consumers match their multimedia personal computers (MPCs) with CD-ROM titles.

Online Guide for Multimedia Courseware Developers 
Contains an electronic version of "New Frontiers of Learning (Guidelines for Multimedia Courseware Developers in Higher Education)". An extensive collection of information pertaining to the creation of computer-based training on multimedia platforms.

Bop Entertainment home page
This company home page highlights software which links the television to the Internet. There are links to their products and services, company information, technology information, and a download link for their demo viewer.

FlickerFree Multimedia Products home page
This home page offers information on the FlickerFree company, multimedia products, software, support, and a link to a free personal AVI editor, a video editing product for Windows.

Integrated Media Systems Center Home Page
Home page for the University of California's National Science Center Engineering Research Center. There are links to education, integrated multimedia research projects and industrial collaborations.

Internet Video Services home page
Internet Video Services specializes in the compression, digitization, storage and distribution of video and audio for the Internet. There are links to product information, a video catalog, and MPEG and QuickTime discussions and resources.

Multimedia Authoring Web
Collection of links to authoring languages, listservs, multimedia centers, commercial producers, and resources organized by specific media types.

Multimedia Solutions home page
This company provides interactive video training, video digitization services (MPEG 1 and AVI formats), and kiosk development. Their page offers links to company, products and services information.

The Heidsite TipFinder
Provides general information on the Apple Macintosh, including tips, news, downloadable software, product information, and numerous links to Macintosh related sites.

Yahoo!'s Hypermedia Page
Yahoo!'s directory of hypermedia.

Yahoo!'s multimedia page
Yahoo!'s directory of multimedia.

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