Much. The Amiga traditionally offers everything you need to combine computer graphics, animations, and film sequences with synchronous sound, plus the ability to control external devices like laserdisc players, all of this under interactive control of the user. This is what multimedia really means. The above mentioned IFF standard has contributed its share to the easiness of this integration of different data types. On the Amiga platform, this has been everyday business since day one, and has continually matured since 1985. Today one can choose today from a broad palette of professional software in this field. Multimedia was already in use on the Amiga in 1985, it simply was not yet called "Multimedia" in those days.
The built-in video compatibility is the hardware base. As these capabilities existed ever since the very first days of the Amiga in 1985, a broad palette of software evolved covering all aspects of video applications. An equally rich offering of hardware add-ons were developed, from cheap devices for the video amateur up to professional equipment for TV studios. Thus many TV stations today use Amigas to deliver most, or all, of the graphics for the show. When speaking of "graphics" here, not only still images are meant: Especially animations, graphics in motion, is one of the strengths of the Amiga. There is a wide range of animation software packages available, but, besides graphics, the Amiga also has its strengths in sound. Its 4-channel 8-bit DMA sound offers good quality for all entertainment or semi-professional applications.
Yes, and it's done already on a big scale. Virtual Reality uses multimedia methods plus additional sensors and display devices. Thanks to its fast multitasking OS, the Amiga is especially suited to process these masses of data. Several commercial Virtual Reality game arcades are built on Amiga technology.
Besides the models CDTV and CD³², that already come with CD-ROM drives factory-installed, all Amigas can be equipped with them. Normally you just add a SCSI host adaptor to your Amiga (the A3000 already comes with one) and connect a SCSI CD-ROM drive. Driver software for Kodak PhotoCD's is also available on the market. Beginning with OS release 3.1, the Amiga comes ready with CD support. Some companies are already planning to offer interfaces to connect the Amiga CD³² as a peripheral device to other Amigas or even totally different computers.
To create Multimedia applications, be it passive presentations or interactive informational or educational systems, there are authoring systems like AmigaVision Professional, Scala, CanDo, and several more. Scala Infochannel even allows you to maintain a remote-controlled, nationwide net of information kiosks, which you can keep up-to-date via modem. Or with AmigaVision, you can control a Laserdisc player and overlay its output with that of the Amiga (per genlock) to combine their features even more attractively.