Word: multimedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system for playing CDs on Apple and IBM-compatible personal computers. Even Nintendo has announced plans to attach a compact-disc drive to the latest version of its video-game machine. "After years of public relations hype," says David Bunnell, publisher of a start-up magazine called NewMedia, "multimedia finally is for real...
...hoopla and claims of inevitability, interactive multimedia is still far from a sure thing. None of the devices that have arrived in U.S. stores so far can be called a hit. And the multiplicity of gadgets is sure to be confusing to consumers. Every new technology has its growing pains; the early years of the computer -- and even the automobile -- were littered with setbacks, false starts and skepticism. For multimedia, the road ahead may be even bumpier...
Today there are hundreds of multimedia videodiscs and CDs for sale or in development. Most are fairly straightforward elaborations of products already available as books or on traditional computer disks. But some of them take advantage of the power of the new media to achieve extraordinary results. Among the best are a series of videodiscs from ABC News InterActive that allow users to explore subjects like the AIDS epidemic or the life of Martin Luther King Jr. by roaming though film and video clips culled from ABC's extensive library of news footage. In some cases, these clips are supplemented...
...good interactive multimedia can be fiendishly expensive to produce. Development costs for a typical title start at a quarter-million dollars. IBM this week will unveil the most ambitious -- and expensive -- multimedia project ever attempted: an elaborate exploration of Columbus' world created by former Hollywood filmmaker Robert Abel that took more than a year and some $5 million to produce. Packed with 180 hours worth of slickly polished text, art, music and video sequences (among them an interview with one of the explorer's living descendants), the program, which will sell for about $3,000, takes pains to represent...
...Multimedia programs like this are likely to be enthusiastically received in America's schools, which for all their complaints about financial problems seem to have plenty of cash to spend on new educational technologies. The state of Florida has contracted with ABC News and National Geographic to develop multimedia programs on subjects ranging from the environment to the cold war. This fall more than 500,000 Texas schoolchildren began using a videodisc series, Optical Data Corp.'s Windows on Science, in lieu of a standard textbook, as their first formal introduction to science. William Clark, president of Optical Data, argues...