Multimedia has emerged as a great evolutionary change in entertainment and technology. There are many components to be evaluated on basis of which we can measure correspondence effect of changing multimedia & technology.
There are various forms of multimedia by which we can entertain in a variety of ways. These forms are text, voice, video, images, animation, special effects and much more. Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content forms.
In short, multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms. Multimedia is usually recorded and played, displayed or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance.
The term rich media is synonymous for interactive multimedia. Hypermedia can be considered one particular multimedia application. Multimedia presentations may be viewed in person on stage, projected, transmitted, or played locally with a media player.
A broadcast may be a live or recorded multimedia presentation. Broadcasts and recordings can be either analog or digital electronic media technology. Digital online multimedia may be downloaded or streamed. Streaming multimedia may be live or on-demand.
Multimedia is often published by broadcasting it onto internet or spreading over news to reach to desired people. Many television channels are now trying to increase their TRP by giving impact more on multimedia contents like advertisements, songs competition, video songs and animated clips, films.
Enhanced levels of interactivity are made possible by combining multiple forms of media content. Online multimedia is increasingly becoming object-oriented and data-driven, enabling applications with collaborative end-user innovation and personalization on multiple forms of content over time.
Emerging technology involving illusions of taste and smell may also enhance the multimedia experience. In this kind of multimedia, user will experience and feel all those emotions, taste and smell. This is why its important that word multimedia is used exclusively to describe multiple forms of media and content.
Multimedia leaves its impact on many other fields. Multimedia finds its application in various areas including, but not limited to, advertisements, art, education, entertainment, engineering, medicine, mathematics, business, scientific research and spatial temporal applications. Some examples are as follows:
Creative industries: Creative industries use multimedia for a variety of purposes ranging from fine arts, to entertainment, to commercial art, to journalism and software provided for any of the industries listed below. An individual multimedia designer may cover the spectrum throughout their career.
