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Whether you are clinging to your old VHS video recorder for grim death, or you embrace any form of new technology with...dare I say it, gay abandon, you will have heard about the DVD. This humble disk looks identical to a CD, but has revolutionised the way we watch films in a way that only Blockbuster could dream of. So what does it do that CDs don't already, and why should we consider throwing away our VHS tapes when you can't even record on them?
Back in 1990, several leading technology companies such as Panasonic, Sony and Toshiba were looking for a data standard that could be used on multiple forms of player and carry a variety of different contents. The result was the Digital Video Disk, or DVD, which quickly had its name changed to Digital Versatile Disk when they realised the technology's potential for multiple usage.
Compared to both the VHS tape and a CD-ROM the amount of information you can squeeze onto a DVD is impressively large. Combine with that the high quality of audio and visual features that the DVD is capable and you can see what they are becoming as popular as CDs and VHS tapes. Most DVDs include the film of your choice, and are packed with extra additional footage, 'the making of' documentaries, commentary from the Directors and numerous other special features.
The high quality graphics and sound available with DVD technology, lends itself to the home film industry, but the appearance of games on DVD is shortly to follow. At first, this might mean the film and the game of the motion picture appearing on the same DVD, but eventually the technology will wholly embrace the games phenomenon. Experts expect to see a DVD technology converging with Internet to produce a player that includes DVD audio, video and a web browser within the one package. Already the clever people at Macintosh have produced an iMac that has a DVD Recorder built-in, so you can capture home movies, edit them and burn them onto writeable DVDs.
As DVD becomes part of the mainstream, VHS will sadly become obsolete, and the industry expects DVD technology to expand to develop DVD-ROMs that will store sophisticated games and multi-media encyclopaedias. As well as other aspects of DVD Audio and Video that will offer a cost-effective solution to carrying content for a variety of different media. Already we can watch higher quality film footage in our homes than ever before, and those advances look likely to continue.
DVD technology, as with most new mass market product ideas will take off, and leave its predecessor eating dust. Maybe this was inevitable but I know I will be holding on to my VHS star wars originals for a VERY long time!
Matt
Back in 1990, several leading technology companies such as Panasonic, Sony and Toshiba were looking for a data standard that could be used on multiple forms of player and carry a variety of different contents. The result was the Digital Video Disk, or DVD, which quickly had its name changed to Digital Versatile Disk when they realised the technology's potential for multiple usage.
Compared to both the VHS tape and a CD-ROM the amount of information you can squeeze onto a DVD is impressively large. Combine with that the high quality of audio and visual features that the DVD is capable and you can see what they are becoming as popular as CDs and VHS tapes. Most DVDs include the film of your choice, and are packed with extra additional footage, 'the making of' documentaries, commentary from the Directors and numerous other special features.
The high quality graphics and sound available with DVD technology, lends itself to the home film industry, but the appearance of games on DVD is shortly to follow. At first, this might mean the film and the game of the motion picture appearing on the same DVD, but eventually the technology will wholly embrace the games phenomenon. Experts expect to see a DVD technology converging with Internet to produce a player that includes DVD audio, video and a web browser within the one package. Already the clever people at Macintosh have produced an iMac that has a DVD Recorder built-in, so you can capture home movies, edit them and burn them onto writeable DVDs.
As DVD becomes part of the mainstream, VHS will sadly become obsolete, and the industry expects DVD technology to expand to develop DVD-ROMs that will store sophisticated games and multi-media encyclopaedias. As well as other aspects of DVD Audio and Video that will offer a cost-effective solution to carrying content for a variety of different media. Already we can watch higher quality film footage in our homes than ever before, and those advances look likely to continue.
DVD technology, as with most new mass market product ideas will take off, and leave its predecessor eating dust. Maybe this was inevitable but I know I will be holding on to my VHS star wars originals for a VERY long time!
Matt
Whether you are clinging to your old VHS video recorder for grim death, or you embrace any form of new technology with...dare I say it, gay abandon, you will have heard about the DVD. This humble disk looks identical to a CD, but has revolutionised the way we watch films in a way that only Blockbuster could dream of. So what does it do that CDs don't already, and why should we consider throwing away our VHS tapes when you can't even record on them?
Back in 1990, several leading technology companies such as Panasonic, Sony and Toshiba were looking for a data standard that could be used on multiple forms of player and carry a variety of different contents. The result was the Digital Video Disk, or DVD, which quickly had its name changed to Digital Versatile Disk when they realised the technology's potential for multiple usage.
Compared to both the VHS tape and a CD-ROM the amount of information you can squeeze onto a DVD is impressively large. Combine with that the high quality of audio and visual features that the DVD is capable and you can see what they are becoming as popular as CDs and VHS tapes. Most DVDs include the film of your choice, and are packed with extra additional footage, 'the making of' documentaries, commentary from the Directors and numerous other special features.
The high quality graphics and sound available with DVD technology, lends itself to the home film industry, but the appearance of games on DVD is shortly to follow. At first, this might mean the film and the game of the motion picture appearing on the same DVD, but eventually the technology will wholly embrace the games phenomenon. Experts expect to see a DVD technology converging with Internet to produce a player that includes DVD audio, video and a web browser within the one package. Already the clever people at Macintosh have produced an iMac that has a DVD Recorder built-in, so you can capture home movies, edit them and burn them onto writeable DVDs.
As DVD becomes part of the mainstream, VHS will sadly become obsolete, and the industry expects DVD technology to expand to develop DVD-ROMs that will store sophisticated games and multi-media encyclopaedias. As well as other aspects of DVD Audio and Video that will offer a cost-effective solution to carrying content for a variety of different media. Already we can watch higher quality film footage in our homes than ever before, and those advances look likely to continue.
DVD technology, as with most new mass market product ideas will take off, and leave its predecessor eating dust. Maybe this was inevitable but I know I will be holding on to my VHS star wars originals for a VERY long time!
Matt
Back in 1990, several leading technology companies such as Panasonic, Sony and Toshiba were looking for a data standard that could be used on multiple forms of player and carry a variety of different contents. The result was the Digital Video Disk, or DVD, which quickly had its name changed to Digital Versatile Disk when they realised the technology's potential for multiple usage.
Compared to both the VHS tape and a CD-ROM the amount of information you can squeeze onto a DVD is impressively large. Combine with that the high quality of audio and visual features that the DVD is capable and you can see what they are becoming as popular as CDs and VHS tapes. Most DVDs include the film of your choice, and are packed with extra additional footage, 'the making of' documentaries, commentary from the Directors and numerous other special features.
The high quality graphics and sound available with DVD technology, lends itself to the home film industry, but the appearance of games on DVD is shortly to follow. At first, this might mean the film and the game of the motion picture appearing on the same DVD, but eventually the technology will wholly embrace the games phenomenon. Experts expect to see a DVD technology converging with Internet to produce a player that includes DVD audio, video and a web browser within the one package. Already the clever people at Macintosh have produced an iMac that has a DVD Recorder built-in, so you can capture home movies, edit them and burn them onto writeable DVDs.
As DVD becomes part of the mainstream, VHS will sadly become obsolete, and the industry expects DVD technology to expand to develop DVD-ROMs that will store sophisticated games and multi-media encyclopaedias. As well as other aspects of DVD Audio and Video that will offer a cost-effective solution to carrying content for a variety of different media. Already we can watch higher quality film footage in our homes than ever before, and those advances look likely to continue.
DVD technology, as with most new mass market product ideas will take off, and leave its predecessor eating dust. Maybe this was inevitable but I know I will be holding on to my VHS star wars originals for a VERY long time!
Matt