Apa yang terlintas di benak kita saat mendengar istilah “multimedia”? Bagi sebagian orang, yang terbayang mungkin seperangkat komputer lengkap dengan CD-ROM, sound card dan speaker yang dapat memainkan VCD, musik MP3, dan (tentu saja!) games dengan tampilan grafis yang aduhai dan suara yang menggelegar.
Tapi apa sih sebenarnya definisi dari multimedia itu? Definisi dari multimedia sendiri sebenarnya agak simpang siur. Salah satu yang menarik untuk disimak adalah dari Newton’s Telecom Dictionary, 15th edition, dalam bahasa aslinya:
Multi-media is the combination of multiple forms of media in the communication of information. Multimedia enables people to communicate using integrated media: audio, video, text, graphics, fax, and telephony. The benefit is more powerful communication. The combination of several media often provides richer, more effective communication of information or ideas than a single media such as traditional text-based communication can accomplish. Multi-media communication formats vary, but they usually include voice communications (vocoding, speech recognition, speaker verification and text-to-speech), audio processing (music synthesis, CD-ROMs), data communications, image processing and telecommunications using LANs, MANs, and WANs in ISDN and POTS networks. Multimedia technology will ultimately take the disparate technologies of the computer, the telephone, the fax machine, the CD player, and the video camera and combine them into one powerful communication center. Technologies that were once analog-video, audio, telephony-are now digital. The power of multimedia is the integration of these digital technologies. To many people, “multimedia” (as defined above) is a disparate collection of technologies in search of a purpose.And it’s true: most of the merger of media (as above) is taking place in business communications in the moving around of compound documents. Meantime, multimedia has moved into training and in the home for education and entertainment.”
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