The+DVD

DVD means Digital versatile Disc it's an optical disc storage invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs have more capacity than CDs Disc compact while they have the same dimensions. DVDs are used in DVD-video consumer digital video format and in DVD-audio digital audio format,as well as for authoring AVCHD discs. DVDs containing other types of information may be refered to as DVD data discs. So now I'm going to talk a litlle about the history, The DVD video format was first first introduced by Toshiba in Japan in November 1996, in the United States in 1997(test marketed), in Europe in October 1998 and in Astralia in February 1999. DVD was adopted by movie and home entertaiment distributors to replace the ubiquitous VHS tape as the primary means of distributing films to consumers in the home entertainment marketplace.