Multimedia is the convergence of computers with video, film, sound, graphics, and text. Multimedia has the potential to be one of the most powerful forms for communicating ideas, searching for information, and experiencing new concepts of any communication media ever developed. 4. Being Digital. Traditionally, digital means the use of numbers and the term comes from digit, or finger, as in discrete units. Today, digital is synonymous with computer.
Computers use a binary system of notation for remembering numbers.
That is, computers can only count from zero to one instead of zero to ten. The computer tracks the thousands of pieces of information by assigning a binary code to each character we type, or dot of color we create on the computer graphics screen. The code collects a series of 0's and 1's in an eight digit series called a Byte. Technically, the zeros indicate that there is a very low or no electronic charge at a given spot in the computer memory, and ones indicate that there is an electronic charge present. The bits are stored as charged or uncharged memory cells in the computer or as microscopic magnets on disk and tape.