Employment is more difficult to determine. All of the industries listed previously employ a combined total of about 580,000 people. However, these industries vary as to multimedia activity. Manufacturing of prepackaged software, home satellite antennas, and computers, including peripherals, have an especially large California representation and are highly influenced by the multimedia industry. Major Users of California Products Everyone with a CD-ROM computer game or access to the Internet is enjoying the benefits of multimedia.
Movie producers use multimedia capabilities to create computer-generated special effects.
Doctors in remote areas of the nation use multimedia to send interactive video via satellite and microwave transmission to medical specialists in urban areas. Multimedia allows real time images of news events to be beamed into the home from countries around the world. California multimedia companies have been the creators of some of the most popular computer games ever. Selected Major Companies California is home to numerous producers of multimedia industry components, from video games to satellites as the following listing illustrates. Company Multimedia Product Location Hewlett-Packard Co. computers Palo Alto Satellite Technology Mgmt.