(Audio/Video) Refers
to equipment and applications that deal with sound
and sight. The A/V world includes microphones, tape
recorders, audio mixers, still and video cameras, film
projectors, slide projectors, VCRs, CD and DVD players/recorders,
amplifiers and speakers. The term originally meant "audio/visual."
Video is the technology of electronically capturing,
recording,
processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing
a sequence of still images representing
scenes in
motion. Video technology was
first developed for television systems,
but has been further developed in many formats to allow
for consumer video recording. Video can also be viewed
through the Internet as video
clips or streaming
media clips on computer monitors.
Multimedia is media that
utilizes a combination of different content forms.
The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple
content forms) or as an adjective describing a medium
as having multiple content forms. The term is used
in contrast to media which only utilize traditional
forms of printed or hand-produced text and still graphics.
In general, multimedia includes a combination of text,
audio, still
images, animation, video,
and interactivity content
forms.