Multimedia is more than one concurrent presentation medium (for example, on CD-ROM or a Web site). Although still images are a different medium than text, multimedia is typically used to mean the combination of text, sound, and/or motion video. Some people might say that the addition of animated images (for example: animated GIFon the Web) produces multimedia, but it has typically meant one of the following:

• Text and sound
• Text, sound, and still or animated graphic images
• Text, sound, and video images
• Video and sound
• Multiple display areas, images, or presentations presented concurrently
• In live situations, the use of a speaker or actors and “props” together with sound, images, and motion video