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Multimedia means that computer information can be represented through audio, video, and animation in addition to traditional media (i.e., text, graphics/drawings, images).
A Multimedia Application is an application which uses a collection of multiple media sources e.g. text, graphics, images, sound/audio, animation and/or video.
Hypertext is a text which contains links to other texts.
Hypermedia is not constrained to be text-based. It can include other media, e.g., graphics, images, and especially continuous media sound and video.
Hypermedia Applications
- The World Wide Web (WWW) is a clear example of a hypermedia application.
- PowerPoint
- Adobe Acrobat (or other PDF software)
- Adobe Flash and many others.
Multimedia Applications include
- World Wide Web
- Multimedia Authoring, e.g. Adobe/Macromedia Director
- Hypermedia course-ware
- Video-on-demand
- Interactive TV
- Computer Games
- Virtual reality
- Digital video editing and production systems
- Multimedia Database systems etc.