The problem with CD Video was that they were still recorded in analog, so storage space was an issue. VCD, which sort of sounds like something you would learn about in sex education in middle school, was the first disc format that encoded video digitally.
Exactly smack dab in the middle of the glorious 90s, DVDs burst onto the scene. Blockbusters were king, I watched Power Rangers basically every day, and loud patterns were the white t-shirts of the day. The more you know. The first widely distributed movie was released on the DVD format to coincide with the 69th Academy Awards. The immature middle school boy inside of me is chuckling at that coincidence.
Sony released its first ever handheld DVD camcorders. The device could write DVDs at the same time as recording, removing the need for tapes completely. Continue Reading. Different Types Of Tapes. In fact, they were actually confrontational about the wallet-emptying maneuvering; one popular discussion board, AVSForum. Although Warner Bros. That kind of straight comparison was enough to force a decision.
In early , Warner Bros. Harry Potter had called it. In a rare moment of corporate humility, so did Toshiba. Sony, meanwhile, tried to shake off reports that they had paid Warner Bros. The allegation, first reported by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Don Lindich, was never confirmed by either studio. In the two major home video battles of the past 40 years, Sony holds a respectable record.
They might soon have a chance to improve upon it: The latest in video cornea massages, high dynamic range HDR , is beginning to draw lines in the sand, with Sony backing technology dubbed HDR10 and other manufacturers opting for Dolby Vision.
Beyond bragging rights, the stakes for being wrong in these situations are high. One year later, after nearly five years of the soap opera of DVD, there is still no peaceful end in sight. Those reports fairly beg for some perspective.
Pointing out that those earlier technologies entered the public consciousness more slowly, under different circumstances, with minimal support from content owners and manufacturers--in fact, in an entirely different world than the one which DVD is predicted to take by storm--would only spoil the fun.
And the , figure is quite impressive, until it is compared to what some considered realistic estimates for first-year sales of DVD players. In , InfoTech's low-ball forecast of 1. Any good market researcher will tell you that there is no way to anticipate forecast-breaking events and their impact, but from hindsight, it's easy to see the factors that troubled DVD's first year in the market.
And the launch of DVD video players and discs last spring was untainted by any inkling of a competing format that would be announced just in time to spoil DVD video's first Christmas. At the same time, nothing seemed to stand in the way last spring of plenty of DVD-ROM PCs and upgrade kits, with accompanying software to tempt the most jaded of multimedia joystick jockeys, in time for long winter evenings before the CRT.
By the end of July, the initially promising sales of hardware had tapered off, presumably in anticipation of the national rollout of Warner Home Video slated for Aug. A flurry of news stories out of Tokyo in mid-August, however, initiated speculation about the stability of the DVD Forum, prompting dire warnings of format wars and conflicting agendas that spelled doom for the future of DVD.
The news was that Sony www. The only truly surprising element of the news was that it was reported three months after the fact, but the damage was done because the story was picked up by dozens of mainstream publications. Excitement over the Sony "announcement" was only beginning to die down when an even bigger and certainly more pleasantly anticipated bombshell broke.
On Sept. Disney's participation had been considered the make-or-break factor for the success of DVD video in the consumer market, and the addition of its support was widely heralded as evidence that the format was well-launched.
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