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continious media

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Definition:

Continuos media is content that is not split into one or more discrete pages. It is different from paged media because it can scroll forever without page breaks, page numbers or other aspects of printed media.

Examples:

Continuous media includes the following media types:

  • braille
  • handheld *
  • screen
  • speech
  • tty
  • tv *

The media types handheld and tv are both continuous and paged media.

Web pages are the most commonly seen example of continuous media.

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