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An Introduction to Digital Multimedia
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An Introduction to Digital Multimedia

by T.M. Savage, K.E. Vogel
October 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
335 pages
13h 31m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
Content preview from An Introduction to Digital Multimedia
1 THE MULTIMEDIA REVOLUTION .............................................................1
1.1 MULTIMEDIA DEFINED 2
1.2 ORIGINS OF MULTIMEDIA 4
1.3 SECOND-GENERATION INNOVATORS 9
1.4 LEGACY OF THE MULTIMEDIA PIONEERS 15
1.5 MULTIMEDIA TODAY 15
2 DIGITAL DATA ........................................................................................19
2.1 SYMBOLS, DATA, AND INFORMATION 20
2.2 DIGITAL DATA: BITS, BYTES, AND CODES 21
2.3 DIGITAL FILES 23
2.4 DIGITIZATION 25
2.5 DIGITAL ENCODING OF MEDIA 28
2.6 FILE COMPRESSION 29
2.7 ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION 31
2.8 ADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL INFORMATION 32
2.9 DIGITAL CHALLENGES ...
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