Advantages:
- Multimedia has the potential to be one of the most powerful forms of communicating idea, searching for information, and experiencing new concepts of any communication media ever developed.
- It helps to share, views ideas and information in more effective and attractive ways.
- It makes teaching learning easier, attractive and effective.
- It helps to make advertisement more attractive.
- It makes the presentation more interesting.
- Things can be presented to cover a wide range of people using projector.
- Movie making, cartoon making etc is easy and fast through multimedia.
- Simulation of air combat, space shuttle flight are the use of multimedia.
- It is possible to get virtual classes at home as a part of distance learning because of multimedia.
- It is also used in Internet to make up the interactive web-page contents.
Disadvantages:
In comparison to the enormous advantages, multimedia has some disadvantages too. Some of them are:
- It is expensive to produce multimedia systems.
- It is expensive to produce multimedia contents.
- It needs well trained manpower to create and use it.
- Multimedia files are too large so, it is time consuming to transfer across the internet and intranet.
- New networking protocols are needed to handle bandwidth requirements of video and sound.
- Copying and altering digital images may unknowingly lead to copyright infringement.
- Productivity may go down with people spending time compiling media presentations rather than presenting data.
