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Multimedia News Systems Infrastructure

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Encyclopedia of Multimedia
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The leading presentation platform in multimedia news presentation is news networks providing television services and Internet content distribution.

The demand for networked consumer systems and devices is large and growing rapidly. At home, in a car, at work or at play, Internet users want transparent internetworking and permanent connection to services, providing them entertainment, information, and communication. News professionals like journalists or opinion leaders in leading roles of companies and organizations request news as essential part of their business life. Digital media as a commonly available data type for news applications brings challenges for computing infrastructure and solution architectures [1]. While many corporate uses of digital media can be handled with current infrastructure, multimedia news systems require more than simple capacity improvements for multimedia contents. The news community is researching for solutions like high level semantic...

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  1. C. Dorai and M. Kienzle, “Challenges of Business Media,” IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 11, No. 4, October–December 2004, pp. 18–21.

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  2. D. Simitopoulos, N. Zissis, P. Georgiadids, V. Emmanouilidis, and M. Strintzis, “Encryption and Watermarking for the Secure Distribution of Copyrighted MPEG Video on DVD,” Multimedia Systems, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 2003, pp. 217–227.

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(2008). Multimedia News Systems Infrastructure. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_143

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