7/13/2023 0 Comments A moment to remember dvdBy 2000, shelves stocked with VHS tapes had nearly all been replaced by DVDs just like that.Īnd while the DVD itself may have been a novel piece of software to the public, the actual laser disc technology was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1958, nearly 40 years before the first DVDs were released to the public. With more storage, better picture and audio quality, as well as interactive features – not to mention never having to “be kind and rewind” – it’s easy to see why it took the world by storm. The epitome of what home theater movie viewing could be. It’s what was also economically viable for home movie watching. You could watch it, record over it, rewind and fast-forward it. Throughout the late 70s, all of the 80s and up until the mid 90s, the VHS became what everyone had known, , used and loved. Let’s take a look back at how the DVD came, saw and conquered before fading away in the exact fashion that it took the world by storm.įor years, the VHS had a tight grip on the home theater industry after it beat out Betamax in the home video war, one of the earliest format wars. A piece of software created in 1997 that could store full audio and video on an optical laser disc the size of a CD. Boy bands were taking over, rock music still existed, movie trailers didn’t give away the whole movie – and technology was rapidly changing and people were finally going to be living in the new millennium – the future! Among these budding technological triumphs came the reign of the DVD. With Y2K just around the corner, the world seemed in a frenzy.
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