Multimedia on the Internet: emerging technology

Abstract

From a consumer's perspective, the future digital highway and interactive multimedia services on the Internet is both exciting and daunting. Certainly, the possibilities and potentials of this technology are staggering, but the downside of new services is the need for new equipment, training on new hardware and software, and rapid obsolescence. Acceptance of the digital highway and interactive multimedia, from a user-consumer perspective, must be based on three things: 1) seamless interoperability, 2) ease of use, and 3) widespread access.