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Multimedia Meets the Internet: Present and Future

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Recently maturing technologies for digital multimedia and the Internet exhibit a powerful synergy with the potential to provide a whole range of new applications and tools. Not only do multimedia and Internet technologies offer enhancements to one another, but their combination suggests entirely new communication paradigms. This paper reviews the state of the art in Internet multimedia from the perspectives of the developer, the network administrator, the content provider and the user, and then investigates some of the up-and-coming application areas: participatory publishing, enriched multimedia databases, integration of the WWW with broadcast media, and universal messaging systems. Remaining challenges, such as missing authoring features, multimedia information management, network latency, and browsing issues, are then discussed.

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    Michael Wynblatt, Dan Benson & Arding Hsu

  2. Siemens Public Communications Networks, Internet Solutions, Boca Raton, Florida

    Felix Bretshneider, Larry Schessel & Graham Howard

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Wynblatt, M., Benson, D., Hsu, A. et al. Multimedia Meets the Internet: Present and Future. Multimedia Tools and Applications 5, 7–32 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009633926140

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