Multimedia: What isn't it?

According to Dictionary.com, multimedia is the "combined use of several media".

To me, multimedia means the website can deliver the 'news message' in text, audio, photos, video, or graphical displays (charts, maps, tables, etc.).

What doesn't work? ... Anything you have to wait for

I find that video is the one media that does not work so well for me....and for a couple reasons:

1. the connection is often not fast enough to support clear, large image video- we are a society that is getting more used to instant gratification, i.e. I don't want to wait
   
2. there is often a problem with the connection and my PC, i.e. I get a soft or hardware-type error, I don't have the software for avi, quicktime, pdf, whatever. For that matter, audio is a close relative of video; the video usually has audio and audio by itself is not usually sufficient for me. Websites are visually enabling, so audio by itself leave a sort of vacuum.
3. I also find that Pop-up ads OR length advertising is monotonous /boring.
   

There's one item that I'm not sure if it's media or not....interactive surveys. They're very helpful. They give the results of what others think, etc. after you vote or select. It's very interactive. The survey is sort of news, so maybe it's media.

Multimedia sends a message that would be difficult, if not impossible, to deliver by text alone, or by one medium alone.

That is all for now..