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Media

The term media can have various meanings. It is defined in defined in Wikipedia2 as:
Media (the plural of medium) is a truncation of the term media of communication, referring to those organized means of dissemination of fact, opinion, entertainment, and other information[...]

In the case of this article, the best suitable meaning is certainly inspired by the definition above but is more closely related to multimedia. Indeed, this paper and the main articles it is based on (i.e. [19,3,17]) focus on the manipulation and creation of multimedia supports. As a consequence when referring to ``media'' in the remaining parts of this paper, one should understand it as ``means for supporting digitalized informative or entertaining contents''.



Dominique Guinard 2006-04-01