Introduction: Topic Overview

• The box on Multimedia shows the various forms of media.
• The right part deals with storage, especially optical storage devices, their evolution and forms.
• The left deals with technologies for linking and electronic publishing.
• The lower left connects to various standards for representation and content coding (with compression).
• In the center is compression, which is a key part of many multimedia standards.
• At the bottom center is networking, which clearly can be expanded and related to all entries.