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There are many future directions for Multimedia, indeed the multimedia
explosion has probably only just began.
There many trends that could be mentioned here, for example:
- developments in multimedia system's hardware
- developments in multimedia system's networking and distributed
environments
- developments in multimedia system's design
- developments in Hypermedia Models which we mentioned in the last
chapter briefly with RMM for example.
- developments multimedia standards, formats and compression
etc.
However, here we concentrate on three emerging technologies/applications
likely to have a major impact in the coming years on multimedia:
- Digital Libraries that need Knowledge-Based Multimedia Systems to
perform content-based retrieval or indexing of multimedia data
- Interactive Television, and
- High Definition TV
Dave Marshall
10/4/2001