Labels:text | furniture | desk | chair OCR: DIGITAL ERA SPARKS OFF SPECIAL REPORT INDUSTRY WARS By TIM BAJARIN T he concept of multimedia has been a loose cannon over the past few years. It has been described many ways, but what it bolls down to is that various media types, such as video, au- dio and print, become digitised, allowing them to be used in a computer and encouraging a richer form of interactivity and visualisation. By adding CD-ROMs, sound cards and digital video conversion alog to digital integration are Horizons boards to a PC, consumer electronics, cable and Techno logy's one can explore broadcast TV, publishing and Power! Video workstations use digital a whole new wo- education. rid of visually dri- Right now these industries True Motion ven information. are dominant in their areas of software to bring The major in- specialisation. But when their high-quality dustries that are products-whether a movie, video to the music CD, videophone, maga- desktop moving from an-