Computer Media and the Internet
...d toward endless. When inserted into a computer, a custom built program located on the CD can include but not limited to video, photos, graphs, charts, data, and animation. This technology is become highly desired in areas such as product marketing, training, how-to, and comparison research. One of the huge differences between CD-ROM and the web is that everything needed to achieve its objective is located on CD. No fast connection necessary. However, along with the fully interactive program, parts of the program can be linked with the web to incorporate content from other locations. The further development of this technology is what is going take the sales and marketing world to the next level. The current developing wave of new interactive media is DVD-ROM not to be confused with classic DVD. Classic DVD is the DVD you buy at a video store; for example: Sam Goody or Best Buy. Basically a classic DVD is used for primarily movies and use with a consumer DVD player. DVD-ROM (herein DVD) performs just as an interactive CD-ROM would. DVD increases quality, content, and data amount, pushing CD-ROM to the curb. DVD is the next step in interactive presentations. As DVD becomes more popular in the business world CD-ROM will fade out and DVD-ROM will replace it. With the technology of DVD the possibilities that CD-ROM encompassed will be multiplies 10 times over. Incorporating video into CD is possible but there are many things to consider. Your file size is limited due to the 650-700 M capacity on CD-ROMs. Opposed to the 4.7G plus capacity of a DVD. Another factor is the compression of the video. The compression of video that you find on a CD has limits to the quality of playback depending on the machine it is played on. With DVD your guaranteed perfect, crystal clear, full screen playback. This will pave the way for interactive video programing, whether it be for marketing, sales, promotion, or entertainment. This will give users the new edge that they have come to desire. What it will do is incorporate all the media that we have used for years into one disc. Full motion video, text, graphics, charts, data, interactivity all organized on a compact, easily deliverable medium. In this next segment I am going to talk briefly about the evolution of video production in the past few decade and how computer media has allowed for this change. In the past editing and producing video was done on a linear scale. It was done with two tape decks and parts of one tape were reorder in and organized manner to the other deck. In the digital age and with computer media. It has been evolved so a person can copy(digitize) there video to a series of hard drives and edit it in a nonlinear fashion. With realtime effects and built in DVD authoring media/software, and editor/producer can build their interactive DVD in realtime as the go through the editing process. Doing what took months to do a few years ago can be done in days or weeks with the help of computer media and software. The internet is a network of networks. It is the concept that millions of computers around the globe are all connected together allowing potential access to machines in any location; whether it be for entertainment, information, business, or shopping. The latest enhancements on web based communications is the development and availability of broadband. The idea of broadband is that it is 30 to 60 times faster than that of a regular dial-up connection. Broadband has brought the potential for enriched multimedia to be virtually limitless. With the introduction of broadband services audio and full moti...