what does the multimedia actually mean?
( 71 ), multimedia means two or more media.if the publisher of this book wanted to join the current hype about multimedia,he could advertise the book as using multimedia technology. after all,it contains two media: text and graphics(the figures).Nevertheless, when most people refer to multimedia,they generally mean the ( 72 ) of two or more continuous media,that is,media have to be played during some well-defined timed times interval,usually with the users ( 73 ).in practice,the two media are nonnally audio and video, that is,sound plus moving pictures.
in the multimedia environment, we have ( 74 ) and text at the same time,we can also add the photograph,animation,good-quality sound,and full motion video.all of the technologies make computers more interesting and much( 75 )to use.for example,a multimedia program can play a segment ofmovie: a cat was playing a reel ofthread, with "mewing.. ." the tableau can a be immediately captured and pasted to a text at the side of a paragraph of words.
