Multimedia y formatos gráficos

Multimedia
Multimedia is a term that was coined by the advertising industry to mean buying ads on TV, radio, outdoor and print media. It was originally picked up by the PC industry to mean acomputer that could display text in 16 colors and had a sound card. The term was a joke when you compared the PC to the Apple Macintosh which was truly a multimedia machine that could show color movies withsound and lifelike still images.
When Windows reached about version 3, and Intel was making the 386, the SoundBlaster equipped PC was beginning to approach the Mac in sound capabilities it but stillhad a long way to go as far as video. The Pentium processor, VGA graphics and Windows 95 nearly closed the gap with the Mac and today's with fast Pentiums, new high definition monitors and blazingfast video cards the PC has caught up with the Mac and outperforms television.
There are a number of terrific software packages that allow you to create multimedia presentations on your computer.Perhaps the best and most widely known is Microsoft's PowerPoint. With PowerPoint a user can mix text with pictures, sound and movies to produce a multimedia slideshow that's great for boardroompresentations or a computer kiosk but difficult to distribute.
Eventually, in the not too distant future, the digital movie imbedded in web pages will become the presentation delivery system of choicerelegating PowerPoint to the dustbins of software. If you have ever browsed a DVD movie disk on your computer you've seen that future. The basic elements of multimedia on a computer are:
* Text
* Stillimages
* Sound
* Movies
* Animations
* Special Effects
Text, still images and the video portion of movies are functions of your monitor, your video card and the software driver thattells Windows how your video card works. Your monitor is essentially a grid of closely spaced little luminous points called pixels which can be turned on and off like tiny light bulbs. For the sake...