DVD
- Date
- 1995 · confidence high
- Place
- Sony, Philips, Toshiba and Panasonic consortium, Tokyo, Japan
- Credited to
- DVD Forum consortium (Toshiba, Sony, Philips, Time Warner)
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Optical disc the same size as the CD, holding up to 4.7 GB per layer, able to contain a film in MPEG-2 digital video. It replaced VHS within a decade.
What it led to
- Digital home video and collector's editions
- Netflix as a mail-order rental service and its move into streaming
- Anti-copy protection systems and the digital-rights debate
Built on
- Videotape recorder (Ampex) and VHS1956-1976
- Compact disc1982
- JPEG and MPEG compression standards1992
- MPEG-2 compression
- red laser diode
Made possible
- Video streaming (YouTube, Netflix)2005
- Blu-ray Disc2006
- PlayStation 2 consoles