Book excerpt: Learn powerful methods for integrating text, imagery, animation, sound, and video to convey information. This definitive handbook features contributions on multimedia from experts at IBM, Apple, Kodak, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, DEC, and other leading corp. You'll find discussions of multimedia specifications . . . writable CDs . . . virtual reality . . . authoring multimedia . . . and producing multimedia videos. Also covers networking multimedia applications, designing a multimedia system, multimedia standards, managing multimedia info, multimedia on cable, the virtual classroom, legal issues in multimedia, how to produce your own CD-ROM, and much more!