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Computers nowadays has become a very famous tools that should everyone have. The government also urge us to have ‘one p.c. per home’. In year 2020 we will see multimedia will become fully use as at Multimedia Super Corridor (Dr. Norsaidatul Akmar Mazelan – MSC & MDC Maktab Kerjasama Malaysia).

As that goes, multimedia has become standard method of conveying information. Multimedia combines different types of media elements such as text, graphics, sound, animation and video into one cohesive applications to convey informations. We can mix and match any these media elements depending on the type of message we would like to pass on to your target audience.

Basically, with multimedia, we are only limited by our imagination. In the heart of multimedia is interactivity. A regular telephone can be used to transmit information via either voice (audio) or fax data. The telephone is not considered multimedia device because it only uses one type of media at a time, audio or text. A television in one hand is considered a multimedia device. It can transmit text, sound, video, graphics and animations data simultaneously but it is a linear multimedia device, meaning the viewer has no control over the sequence of the presentation.

However, with a P.C. you can have interactive multimedia. With interactivity, we, the user have control over what media elements are to be delivered and when it is to delivered. (see Figure 1). For example, a presenter may want to use animations, sound and text at different parts of his presentation to present ideas and information to his audience or a manager may want to illustrate some word-processed documents and spreadsheets together with sound, video and graphics animations.

Interactive multimedia is important especially when it is applied in education. Research has proven that students increase their retention rate up to 40 per cent when multimedia methodology of teachings is used compared to traditional teaching methods. We tend to remember more if we actively participate in the learning process. To make our P.C become multimedia PC, we have to have a few hardware components.