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This text synthesizes market-research data on the multimedia market, detailing advances in technology and their impact on various industries, including telecommunications, film and broadcasting. The effects on areas of intellectual property, virtual reality and marketing are also discussed.

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CHOICE Review

Multimedia is the buzzword of the 90s, and this book provides a view through that "gateway to the next millennium." With topics including multimedia technologies, market and application opportunities, interactive entertainment, digital communications, interactive television, virtual reality, and the information highway, the editors have compiled articles from respected experts in the technology and entertainment fields to provide clues as to where multimedia is headed. Although there are no new revelations about the multimedia future uncovered here, it does provide a solid collection of information to assist both developers and end users in making educated decisions on where to commit resources in the next few years. Information in this form will be helpful to instructional technologists, instructional developers, media producers, and graduate students in technology-based programs of study. Although books dealing with technology, particularly cutting-edge technology, become quickly dated, this book might eventually provide a good historical overview of technology trends in the 1990s. General; upper-division undergraduate; graduate; professional. J. M. King; University of Georgia