Multimedia

Multimedia is media that uses a variety of information content and information proccessing. The main aspects that are incorporated with multimedia are:

• text


• audio
  
• graphics


• animation


• video


• interactivity (hyperlinks)
  

Multimedia is categorized into two different types, linear and non-linear. Linear is where for example a presentation follows intself in a line and has a fixed pathway. Whereas, non-linear is where the prsentation has no real pathway and some of the slides are conected through hyperlinks, therefore it includes interactivity.

Multimedia presentations can be live or recorded. A recorded presentation may allow interactivity via a navigation system. A live multimedia presentation may allow interactivity via interaction with the presenter or performer.

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.

Multimedia can only be used properly with a broadband connection.
Despite nothing physiclly changes via wire connections. Boradband has a different function which has more space to stream more information through at one time, whereas dial up connection has a smaller band for information to pass through because only small chunks of information can come through at once.