
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 ...