We can understand the multimedia technology as a digital integration of
texts, graphics, audio, animation, still images and motion video in a way that
provides a high level of personal interaction and control to individual users.
The evolution of multimedia is a convergence of the mentioned media types to
a unique system. Before the term of multimedia became popular in the early
90’s, the field of lively presentation and communication had been dedicated
to a limited number of professionals. The first high-quality programmes ran
on specialised, expensive machineries such as laser disc players. From 1994,
multimedia materials have been distributed on CD-ROMs, available to anyone
with a compatible personal computer. But, while distribution was becoming
easier, producing of programmes still remained expensive and time-consuming.
At the same time, the debut of the World Wide Web was there. Now, shortly
ten years thereafter, anyone with access to the Web has the power to share his
or her ideas with millions of others.
The today’s digital technology is offering many advantages and is promising
a lot of amazing services for the near future in the area of fixed and mobile
personal terminals. The digital transmission and reception technology guarantees
a better picture and sound quality even in bad transmission conditions.
The digital technology will be providing us with exciting new features, such as
shopping through mobile screens, requesting teleconferencing services, remote
learning, watching movies of our choice, participating in interactive TV shows,
and many other exclusive services.