"It is hard, hard, hard, to make a good multimedia title," he said.

For next year's edition, the punch line will probably include multimedia titles.

Many publishers contend, however, that they are producing multimedia titles.

But producing a single multimedia title can easily cost more than $500,000, making each venture a great gamble.

A: He started a new company to do some multimedia titles and he has made some good friends in the entertainment business.

Consumers were likely to turn to their conventional sources of software for multimedia titles.

Despite some annoying omissions, it is one of those rare multimedia titles that would not work as well in any other form.

Applications in Multimedia are for example to verify the integrity of an on-line multimedia title.

Consumer knowledge, or the lack of it, has been a problem in the relatively few video stores that do carry multimedia titles.

"There are a lot of people out there trying to develop new multimedia titles."