Primarily because of the inherint trouble it would take to distinguish between the digital attributes/others-patents associated with quantization in mpeg1-2 when video was being put on early PCs and then to DVDs it itiology/early uses - it's all based on h.26 right up to AVC to WMV-VC-1. It was all considered digital and when/who first put it on a handheld is ambigious imo ergo our attempts at an 'encription' patent.

However, the Flashback was a voice recorder and we'll do fine with just audio imvho, irrregardless.

I got to thinking about why they used the word 'Multimedia' per the cross licencing with LG, if you take the 90's version of the term; you see it includes a 'combination' of content and an 'interactive' aspect, and as a whole it describes 'multiple forms'. So maybe they got BIG plans.

''History of the term

In 1965 the term Multi-media was used to describe the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, a performance that combined live rock music, cinema, experimental lighting and performance art.[citation needed]

In the intervening forty years the word has taken on different meanings. In the late 1970s the term was used to describe presentations consisting of multi-projector slide shows timed to an audio track.[citation needed] In the 1990s it took on its current meaning. In common usage the term multimedia refers to an electronically delivered combination of media including video, still images, audio, text in such a way that can be accessed interactively.[1] Much of the content on the web today falls within this definition as understood by millions.

Some computers which were marketed in the 1990s were called "multimedia" computers because they incorporated a CD-ROM drive, which allowed for the delivery of several hundred megabytes of video, picture, and audio data.

[edit] Word usage and context

Since media is the plural of medium, the term "multimedia" is a pleonasm if "multi" is used to describe multiple occurrences of only one form of media such as a collection of audio CDs. This is why it's important that the word "multimedia" is used exclusively to describe multiple forms of media and content.''

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