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Paperback: 698 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2nd Edition edition (6 Feb 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0470858907
ISBN-13: 978-0470858905
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 19.6 x 3.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 152,706 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"This is a core text for undergraduate and masters courses in multimedia." (Digital Arts, October 2007)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good, lots of detail - well written and attractive., 4 Oct 2000

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This review is from: Digital Multimedia (Paperback)

You might suppose that a book which covers such a wide subject would have to be rather cursory on any particular topic. Well, it could be like that, but it isn't like that. Each chapter (vector graphics, colour, hypertext, animation etc.) is written very carefully, with a wealth of detail.

The format is clear and attractive, with asides and technical passages set in a smaller font which makes it easily digestible, even when describing intricacies - "the following description of character code standards is necessarily somewhat dry", we are warned - actually I liked this bit a lot.

The illustrations are excellent, not only when showing techniques for image manipulation and 3D graphics, but also to help clarify other topics like audio compression, colour management, font selection, synchronised multimedia etc. There's also a lot of good advice on aspects of presentation and style, but delivered gently, with a touch of humour. The book itself shows that the authors know what they are talking about.

When necessary, attention is drawn to the constraints that might limit what can be achieved with current hardware, and to the complexities of the numerous sound and video formats. The section on video standards and compression techniques is very informative here.

I was surprised by how much this book could tell me even in areas that I thought I already knew well. It will be valuable as a course text and also as a reference work.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Only place to find SMIL, 25 Aug 2000

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This review is from: Digital Multimedia (Paperback)

The only published book in which SMIL information has been written (or of those I could find). This is a great book for a wide variety of digital multimedia subjects from typography, graphic design, SMIL, html, xml and sound. Written like a college text book, it has broad reach and appears very good for multimedia proffessionals who need info on new technologies but don't speak full-on geek techie (aka those who dont like to learn from white papers or W3C specification lists). And it does exactly what it says it does on the tin...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, 13 Nov 2009

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This book has really helped me with my studies so far and i have only had it a couple of weeks. It is really detailed, maybe a bit too detailed but i am at uni so this amount of detail is needed i suppose. I recommend this book to anyone doing a practical media related subject.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and up-to-date
Digital multimedia (third edition) is clear and well-written with excellent illustrations.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Study companion
This book was aquired has a study companion for Internet and Multimedia .
Havent gone through it yet but seems interesting and abranging the various Multimedia questions.

Published 17 days ago by LN62

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