Alta Multimedia is Hong Kong's leading distributor & licensee of education, reference and entertainment computer software. Our customers include local and international schools, retail operations, online gamers, cybercafes and hardware companies. From our selection of leading brands, Alta promotes software products that educate & entertain across all ages and areas of interest, from young children to inquisitive adults.
Our education titles focus on building important learning skills while offering state-of-the-art graphics, animation, video, music and sound. They cover a wide range of subjects suitable for users from toddlers to university-bound students to simply those who are interested in learning.
Alta's many award-winning computer software lines are designed to enhance learning, increase personal productivity, and enrich the knowledge of people of all ages and walks of life.
The company is the licensee and distributor of selected product lines for several top Asian, US & European software publishers. They are:
- Activision®
- Activision O2
- Dreamworks
- LucasArts
- BBC Motion Gallery
- EasyFun Entertainment
- Giant Interactive
- GSP
- Dorling Kindersley Software
- The Times
- Koei
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms Series
- Great Voyage Online
- Shin Sangoku Musou Series
- Lager Interactive
- Fairyland
- Zheng Tu
- King of Kings 3
- X-Legend Entertainment
In early 2003, Alta entered the massively-multiplayer-online-game business by releasing the game Fairyland, and it quickly became one of the leading online favorites locally. In subsequent years, the company continued to release other high-quality online products such as Great Voyage Online, King of Kings 2, Giant Interactive's ZT Online, and EasyFun Entertainment's Holy Beast Online.
On the education front, Alta has successfully secured the Hong Kong license of Short Programmes from BBC Motion Gallery. Carefully selected from thousands of hours of unrivalled archive, this initial series is a treasure trove of information and imagery. Here you will discover high-quality programmes from the BBC on a wide selection of subjects, such as Nature, History, Cultures, Environmental Knowledge, World Affairs, Technology, & Natural Science. Each episode comes with a choice of English or Chinese subtitles; as well as narration in English, Cantonese or Putonghua.
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