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Multimedia in PC is becoming a business tool as well as educational tool. For many applications, clicking on the OK button will bring up an animated screen of a teacher explaining features of that program rather than simple text screen Multimedia is consisting of a Sound Blaster, a board that allows your PC to emit various kinds of sound. Nowadays you can buy sound card that can produce superior quality of sound. Animation requires good sound equipments.
CD ROM DRIVE : Physically, most CD ROM drives look pretty much alike. The front panel has power indicator, CD busy signal, an eject Yobutton, a manual eject button and a volume controller.
Sound Card :
Sound card is required to be installed on the motherboard only if you need audio interface in your PC.This is useful only if you are keen about using multimedia. These sound cards are available in various versions. Just make sure that the card you have selected matches your motherboard 3 D sound card gives a special sound effects if your are keen on playing latest games otherwise 32 bit PCI card is suitable.
Multimedia Keyboard :
Multimedia Keyboards, which are more suitable for multimedia applications, are available in market. These possess some extra keys, which are programmable such as controlling volume etc.
hello,
i am maxime en this site is from maxime.
what is the differance between passive and interactive multimedia.
Radio would be monomedia (audio only). Passive multimedia would be something like a Pink Floyd Laser Light Show at the planetarium, where you have sound and lasers, but the viewer is a passive receptor of the content. Interactive multimedia requires the viewer to be an active participant in the display of the content. Arguably there could be other states of multimedia. Passive/agressive multimedia, for example, where the viewer can only choose from few predetermined paths (as with the early interactive CD-ROM titles) or active multimedia, where one actually participates in the creation of the multimedia.
How would multimedia be used to develop special effects in movies?
The following was added by 24.45.15.41 with terrible formatting, while obliterating the "Exploding Plastic Inevitable" reference along with the entire bottom of the page (interwiki links, etc.)
I reverted the edits, but I thought some of it might actually be valid, any opinions on this material? - Rainwarrior 18:57, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
The term "multimedia" was coined by Bob Goldstein (later 'Bobb Goldsteinn') to promote the July 4,1966 opening of his "LightWorks at L'Oursin" (a Southhampton, L.I. niteclub that was later known as Conscience Point). Initially, only three published articles about Bob and his work actually used the term:
NEWSDAY, Monday, August 8, 1966. Modesty Blaise Previews in a Juke Box By Joseph Gelmis
“… The most avant garde of all spy films, “Modesty Blaise” is sure to arouse passionate love or hate. Having the preview at the “LightWorks” was inspired because, in its violence, escapism and breathless assaults on all senses at once, the film held up the mirror to this most quintessentially modern of 'multimedia' clubs and the young crowd that frequents it.”
VARIETY, New York, August 10, 1966. Goldstein’s ‘LightWorks’ at Southampton Preem By Richard Albarino (writing as ‘Doro’)
“Brainchild of songscribe-comic Bob ('Washington Square') Goldstein, the 'Lightworks' is the latest multi-media music-cum-visuals to debut as discotheque fare. Though making its first public bow this summer, the 'total theatre' electronic assault is actually one of the progenitors of the format and idea-source for super-Scopitone fruggeries currently blossoming across the U.S.”
WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY, Thursday, August 25, 1966. A FIRST IN FASHION – Fashion LightWorks (Unsigned)
“Southampton tonight will see a new way to put on a fashion show at L’Oursin’s. Ken Scott of Milan’s winter collection will be shown in a multi-media of LIGHTWORKS combining live models with film, slides and sound. … A NEW WAY TO SEE FASHION.”
The term fell into disuse, but then resurfaced two years later in the fall of 1968, describing the mix of media used in a particular political campaign. 'Multimedia' starts to appear in discussions about the first political campaigns being run by the late David Sawyer, now considered the father of 'Political Consulting' (which is just a fancy word for a person with a gift for applying the principals of advertising to the campaigns of office-seekers).
David Sawyer was the trophy husband of Iris Sawyer who was one of Goldstein’s three 'Producers' at L'Oursin: Iris Sawyer, Alan Patricof and Elinor Silverman, the Cat Show Publicist.
1969. The term works so well for David's first clients that it becomes an industry staple as more failed ad guys star repping monied office-seekers. Then 'advertising' itself embraces it.
This remains the case until computers take over the world and pros start referring to its menu of possibilities as 'Multimedia.’
New Year's 1996. The most prestigious language organization in Germany decrees thus, according to the Variety of January 1-7, 1996:
“SPRECHEN ZIE 'MULTIMEDIA'?
“An influential German-language association that annually selects what it deems to be the ‘word of the year’ announced its eagerly awaited pick for 1995 on Dec. 20 – ‘multimedia.’ Choosing a word borrowed from English, the Gesellschaft fur deutsche Sprachgebrauch (Society of German language usage) in Wiesbaden said that the word ‘die Multimedia’ was picked over runner-up ‘das Eurogeld’ (Euromoney) because ‘Multimedia’ had entered virtually all aspects of German life in the past year. ‘It has become a central word in the wonderful new media world,’ the institute said.”
In 1966 the term 'Lightworks' was used to promote Andy Warhol's Exploding. Plastic. Inevitable., a performance that combined live rock music, cinema, experimental lighting and performance art. Following a 'cease-and-desist letter from Goldstein's attorneys, the Warhol camp dropped the use of the word.
This section:
By the late 1970's the term Multi-media was used to describe slide presentations that were delivered in time to a sound track. There were several semi-permanent exhibits that presented these multi-projector slide shows with sound.
In the early 1980's interactive videodisc applications were more in vogue. These qualify as interactive multimedia because images, text, and sound were employed. Also during this period simple video games became popular. These interactive graphic works did not include digitized audio; rather they used a more simple audio methodology that relied on synthesized "beeps" "boops" and other effects.
In the mid 1980's various computer slide show and presentation systems appeared on the market. They relied on simple two, four or sixteen color graphics, and text. Some did support rudimenatry synthesized sound as user feedback. They also utilized the menu driven user interaction, or on occasion a mouse cursor user interface. The Amiga computer was developed with the hardware to support a more modern multimedia experience but appropriate software was not created along with it, and the technology went underutilized. It was during this time that a two-man company, V_Graph Inc developed a DOS based system that used full color digitized images, text, interactivity, and (by converting a phone voice mail circuit board) digitized audio. All the information was stored on the hard drive, but the system would also bring in media elements and scripts from networks or CD-ROMs. By the next year they had speech recognition, videodisc control and other features. It was during a trade show to demonstrate that version when Compton personnel saw their technology. A short time later Compton filed their famous multimedia patent (#5,241,671). That patent was ultimately overturned because of HyperCard, yet the V_Graph system predated HyperCard by some time. V_Graph eventually donated their system to the Smithsonian.
Ultimately DOS systems were superceded by Windows based systems. After Microsoft entered the market with PowerPoint competing systems lost market share. Various Mac based systems survived. Macromind became Macromedia and ultimately Adobe providing Flash over the web.
Seems to be more about hypermedia technology more than multimedia. The delivery platform of multimedia technology isn't as relevant as the content or the application. There are thousands of technologies associated with multimedia. But unless it's the very first technology to combine multiple forms of media regardless of platform, I don't think it's relevant. Too much is centered around V_Graph Inc's contribution, which is nowhere near as influential as the pioneers mentioned in this exhibit. It appears to be a self-promotion of V_Graph Inc. I'm considering deleting or at least stripping all the technobabble out of it. But I wanted to get some feedback first. Oicumayberight 01:52, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
-- As the contributor of the "Irrelevant History" section I respectfully disagree that the delivery platform plays an unimportant role. That is unless you want to contend that any admixture of two media is enough to qualify, like singing while dancing. The term "multimedia" has become a term that refers mostly to computer media. One simply has to look at the illustrations on the Multimedia page to see that those very elements were combined into the first multimedia computer whereas they were not combined in the referenced laser show. There is some confusion here, and I suppose it could be solved with a subsection on computer multimedia. The above author noted that my contribution sounded like a "self-promotion" of V_Graph. I suppose it would be more accurate to say that it is an autobiographical expression of my own experiences in the early days. While we were influential we were not 500 lb gorillas. We led the way, only to be run over by a convoy of large companies who learned more from us than we from them. As far as the item being "unverifiable" this is not strictly true, but a little research would be required such as a call to the Smithsonian. It is fair to point out that the referenced artmuseum.net link skipped 1986, which was the year of our work. With all due respect to Mr. Canter - we had a shipping product with full multimedia capabilities at the time he was peddling his software libraries that made slide shows. The key difference was his choice of platform, Apple. We chose DOS PC’s and while the market was theoretically larger the people in that camp were less interested. - Robtmorris - Jan 18, 2007
Now Oicumayberight has decided to remove references for an article that needs some. (One to a published series of books, another to the patent office, and a third to the Smithsonian.) Then he deleted my contributions based on false claims. One can only wonder why. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobtMorris ( talk • contribs)
I think the article at Multimedia is really promising. It's already at least Good status. It's an important topic. It's something many people could contribute to getting to Featured status. It's already got a lot of really appropriate and free images, that are well-placed. Who wants to pitch in and make Multimedia a Featured Article? 68.53.230.143 ( talk) 21:27, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to add this link as contains a useful, extensive research work on the Multimedia theme, but requires the approval of the wikipedia community first: http://alfonsoycia.blogspot.com/2007/08/metodologa-de-desarrollo-de.html
<<This project treats the development of multimedia applications from the production process point of view. First, the construction of multimedia software using structured methodologies is studied. Afterwards, the contents development and assembly more widely used techniques and tools are detailed from a media-oriented approach. Finally a budget for the costs of serial production of multimedia is shown. Two completely functional applications are presented as a result. The first of them is a theme show in which visual experience and ease-ofuse take the main role. The second is an audiovisual and textual information query system designed for running on a public terminal equipped with a tactile screen.>>
The code goes something like this:
I've done a bit of cleanup to the top of this talk page, mostly removing nonsense and irrelevant offsite links. Dialectric ( talk) 19:20, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
multimedia is the most boring thing ever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.242.141.25 ( talk) 14:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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![]() | This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Multimedia in PC is becoming a business tool as well as educational tool. For many applications, clicking on the OK button will bring up an animated screen of a teacher explaining features of that program rather than simple text screen Multimedia is consisting of a Sound Blaster, a board that allows your PC to emit various kinds of sound. Nowadays you can buy sound card that can produce superior quality of sound. Animation requires good sound equipments.
CD ROM DRIVE : Physically, most CD ROM drives look pretty much alike. The front panel has power indicator, CD busy signal, an eject Yobutton, a manual eject button and a volume controller.
Sound Card :
Sound card is required to be installed on the motherboard only if you need audio interface in your PC.This is useful only if you are keen about using multimedia. These sound cards are available in various versions. Just make sure that the card you have selected matches your motherboard 3 D sound card gives a special sound effects if your are keen on playing latest games otherwise 32 bit PCI card is suitable.
Multimedia Keyboard :
Multimedia Keyboards, which are more suitable for multimedia applications, are available in market. These possess some extra keys, which are programmable such as controlling volume etc.
hello,
i am maxime en this site is from maxime.
what is the differance between passive and interactive multimedia.
Radio would be monomedia (audio only). Passive multimedia would be something like a Pink Floyd Laser Light Show at the planetarium, where you have sound and lasers, but the viewer is a passive receptor of the content. Interactive multimedia requires the viewer to be an active participant in the display of the content. Arguably there could be other states of multimedia. Passive/agressive multimedia, for example, where the viewer can only choose from few predetermined paths (as with the early interactive CD-ROM titles) or active multimedia, where one actually participates in the creation of the multimedia.
How would multimedia be used to develop special effects in movies?
The following was added by 24.45.15.41 with terrible formatting, while obliterating the "Exploding Plastic Inevitable" reference along with the entire bottom of the page (interwiki links, etc.)
I reverted the edits, but I thought some of it might actually be valid, any opinions on this material? - Rainwarrior 18:57, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
The term "multimedia" was coined by Bob Goldstein (later 'Bobb Goldsteinn') to promote the July 4,1966 opening of his "LightWorks at L'Oursin" (a Southhampton, L.I. niteclub that was later known as Conscience Point). Initially, only three published articles about Bob and his work actually used the term:
NEWSDAY, Monday, August 8, 1966. Modesty Blaise Previews in a Juke Box By Joseph Gelmis
“… The most avant garde of all spy films, “Modesty Blaise” is sure to arouse passionate love or hate. Having the preview at the “LightWorks” was inspired because, in its violence, escapism and breathless assaults on all senses at once, the film held up the mirror to this most quintessentially modern of 'multimedia' clubs and the young crowd that frequents it.”
VARIETY, New York, August 10, 1966. Goldstein’s ‘LightWorks’ at Southampton Preem By Richard Albarino (writing as ‘Doro’)
“Brainchild of songscribe-comic Bob ('Washington Square') Goldstein, the 'Lightworks' is the latest multi-media music-cum-visuals to debut as discotheque fare. Though making its first public bow this summer, the 'total theatre' electronic assault is actually one of the progenitors of the format and idea-source for super-Scopitone fruggeries currently blossoming across the U.S.”
WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY, Thursday, August 25, 1966. A FIRST IN FASHION – Fashion LightWorks (Unsigned)
“Southampton tonight will see a new way to put on a fashion show at L’Oursin’s. Ken Scott of Milan’s winter collection will be shown in a multi-media of LIGHTWORKS combining live models with film, slides and sound. … A NEW WAY TO SEE FASHION.”
The term fell into disuse, but then resurfaced two years later in the fall of 1968, describing the mix of media used in a particular political campaign. 'Multimedia' starts to appear in discussions about the first political campaigns being run by the late David Sawyer, now considered the father of 'Political Consulting' (which is just a fancy word for a person with a gift for applying the principals of advertising to the campaigns of office-seekers).
David Sawyer was the trophy husband of Iris Sawyer who was one of Goldstein’s three 'Producers' at L'Oursin: Iris Sawyer, Alan Patricof and Elinor Silverman, the Cat Show Publicist.
1969. The term works so well for David's first clients that it becomes an industry staple as more failed ad guys star repping monied office-seekers. Then 'advertising' itself embraces it.
This remains the case until computers take over the world and pros start referring to its menu of possibilities as 'Multimedia.’
New Year's 1996. The most prestigious language organization in Germany decrees thus, according to the Variety of January 1-7, 1996:
“SPRECHEN ZIE 'MULTIMEDIA'?
“An influential German-language association that annually selects what it deems to be the ‘word of the year’ announced its eagerly awaited pick for 1995 on Dec. 20 – ‘multimedia.’ Choosing a word borrowed from English, the Gesellschaft fur deutsche Sprachgebrauch (Society of German language usage) in Wiesbaden said that the word ‘die Multimedia’ was picked over runner-up ‘das Eurogeld’ (Euromoney) because ‘Multimedia’ had entered virtually all aspects of German life in the past year. ‘It has become a central word in the wonderful new media world,’ the institute said.”
In 1966 the term 'Lightworks' was used to promote Andy Warhol's Exploding. Plastic. Inevitable., a performance that combined live rock music, cinema, experimental lighting and performance art. Following a 'cease-and-desist letter from Goldstein's attorneys, the Warhol camp dropped the use of the word.
This section:
By the late 1970's the term Multi-media was used to describe slide presentations that were delivered in time to a sound track. There were several semi-permanent exhibits that presented these multi-projector slide shows with sound.
In the early 1980's interactive videodisc applications were more in vogue. These qualify as interactive multimedia because images, text, and sound were employed. Also during this period simple video games became popular. These interactive graphic works did not include digitized audio; rather they used a more simple audio methodology that relied on synthesized "beeps" "boops" and other effects.
In the mid 1980's various computer slide show and presentation systems appeared on the market. They relied on simple two, four or sixteen color graphics, and text. Some did support rudimenatry synthesized sound as user feedback. They also utilized the menu driven user interaction, or on occasion a mouse cursor user interface. The Amiga computer was developed with the hardware to support a more modern multimedia experience but appropriate software was not created along with it, and the technology went underutilized. It was during this time that a two-man company, V_Graph Inc developed a DOS based system that used full color digitized images, text, interactivity, and (by converting a phone voice mail circuit board) digitized audio. All the information was stored on the hard drive, but the system would also bring in media elements and scripts from networks or CD-ROMs. By the next year they had speech recognition, videodisc control and other features. It was during a trade show to demonstrate that version when Compton personnel saw their technology. A short time later Compton filed their famous multimedia patent (#5,241,671). That patent was ultimately overturned because of HyperCard, yet the V_Graph system predated HyperCard by some time. V_Graph eventually donated their system to the Smithsonian.
Ultimately DOS systems were superceded by Windows based systems. After Microsoft entered the market with PowerPoint competing systems lost market share. Various Mac based systems survived. Macromind became Macromedia and ultimately Adobe providing Flash over the web.
Seems to be more about hypermedia technology more than multimedia. The delivery platform of multimedia technology isn't as relevant as the content or the application. There are thousands of technologies associated with multimedia. But unless it's the very first technology to combine multiple forms of media regardless of platform, I don't think it's relevant. Too much is centered around V_Graph Inc's contribution, which is nowhere near as influential as the pioneers mentioned in this exhibit. It appears to be a self-promotion of V_Graph Inc. I'm considering deleting or at least stripping all the technobabble out of it. But I wanted to get some feedback first. Oicumayberight 01:52, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
-- As the contributor of the "Irrelevant History" section I respectfully disagree that the delivery platform plays an unimportant role. That is unless you want to contend that any admixture of two media is enough to qualify, like singing while dancing. The term "multimedia" has become a term that refers mostly to computer media. One simply has to look at the illustrations on the Multimedia page to see that those very elements were combined into the first multimedia computer whereas they were not combined in the referenced laser show. There is some confusion here, and I suppose it could be solved with a subsection on computer multimedia. The above author noted that my contribution sounded like a "self-promotion" of V_Graph. I suppose it would be more accurate to say that it is an autobiographical expression of my own experiences in the early days. While we were influential we were not 500 lb gorillas. We led the way, only to be run over by a convoy of large companies who learned more from us than we from them. As far as the item being "unverifiable" this is not strictly true, but a little research would be required such as a call to the Smithsonian. It is fair to point out that the referenced artmuseum.net link skipped 1986, which was the year of our work. With all due respect to Mr. Canter - we had a shipping product with full multimedia capabilities at the time he was peddling his software libraries that made slide shows. The key difference was his choice of platform, Apple. We chose DOS PC’s and while the market was theoretically larger the people in that camp were less interested. - Robtmorris - Jan 18, 2007
Now Oicumayberight has decided to remove references for an article that needs some. (One to a published series of books, another to the patent office, and a third to the Smithsonian.) Then he deleted my contributions based on false claims. One can only wonder why. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobtMorris ( talk • contribs)
I think the article at Multimedia is really promising. It's already at least Good status. It's an important topic. It's something many people could contribute to getting to Featured status. It's already got a lot of really appropriate and free images, that are well-placed. Who wants to pitch in and make Multimedia a Featured Article? 68.53.230.143 ( talk) 21:27, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to add this link as contains a useful, extensive research work on the Multimedia theme, but requires the approval of the wikipedia community first: http://alfonsoycia.blogspot.com/2007/08/metodologa-de-desarrollo-de.html
<<This project treats the development of multimedia applications from the production process point of view. First, the construction of multimedia software using structured methodologies is studied. Afterwards, the contents development and assembly more widely used techniques and tools are detailed from a media-oriented approach. Finally a budget for the costs of serial production of multimedia is shown. Two completely functional applications are presented as a result. The first of them is a theme show in which visual experience and ease-ofuse take the main role. The second is an audiovisual and textual information query system designed for running on a public terminal equipped with a tactile screen.>>
The code goes something like this:
I've done a bit of cleanup to the top of this talk page, mostly removing nonsense and irrelevant offsite links. Dialectric ( talk) 19:20, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
multimedia is the most boring thing ever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.242.141.25 ( talk) 14:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
![]() | This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |