Multimedia Devices

Introducing Multimedia
Multimedia - multisensory stimulators, or things that stimulate our senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, or taste
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Information Kiosks
Automated presentation systems used to provide information to the public or employee training
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Audio: MP3
MP3 format
Reduces file size of sound files
Eliminates those frequencies that the human ear cannot hear
Record, store and play on computer
Downloadable
Stored on portable players
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Audio: Digital Voice Recorders
Digital Voice Recorders
Record voice and sounds to playback later
Built-in microphone
Stored on memory chip
Consider amount of storage and price
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Visual: E-Books
E-book is a book that has been digitized and distributed by means of a digital storage medium
E-book reader may be built only for reading e-books or a PDA
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Visual: Digital Cameras
Digital camera is a camera that uses digital technology to store and display images instead of recording them on film
Shot is stored in camera
Lens, shutter, viewfinder
CCD
Megapixel
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Visual: Digital Cameras
Images are stored using flash memory technologies
CompactFlash
SmartMedia
Photos can be downloaded to PC for safe-keeping.
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Visual: Digital Cameras
Photo-editing programs allow you to enhance, edit, crop or resize photos
Photo printers use flash memory cards to let you print directly to the printer
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Visual: Digital Camcorders
Digital video saves full-motion images in digital format
Connect a digital video camera to computer through a USB port
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Television and Computer Appliances
MSN® TV is an Internet service that can be accessed through an inexpensive set-top appliance
Television becomes display
Wireless keyboard or remote control unit
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Television and Computer Appliances
Portable Televisions and Jukeboxes
Carry multimedia wherever you go
Dual-band wireless connection
High-speed Ethernet port to receive and transmit data
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Television and Computer Appliances
Digital video recorders (DVR)
Similar to a VCR
Uses a hard disk
TiVo
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Television and Computer Appliances
Computer Gaming Devices
Playstation
Xbox
Console
Similar to computer
Load and play games
Can be handheld
Game Boy
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