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Video and DVD Industries
Paul Mcdonald
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Description for Video and DVD Industries
Paperback. Considers DVD from an industrial perspective. This work outlines industry battles over incompatible formats, from the Betamax/VHS war to competing laserdisc systems and to the introduction of HDDVD and Blu-ray high-definition systems. It also looks at the formation of international markets in the globalization of video media. Series: International Screen Industries. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KNDH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
When the videocassette recorder was launched on the consumer market in the mid-1970s, it transformed home entertainment. Bringing together complementary but also competing interests from the consumer electronics industry and the film, television and other copyright industries, video created a new sector of media business. Two decades later, DVD reinvented video media for the digital age. DVD provided consumers with an innovative form of entertainment technology and almost instantaneously became the catalyst for a huge boom in the video market. Although the VCR and DVD created major markets for video hardware and software, the video business has been continually shaped ... Read more
When the videocassette recorder was launched on the consumer market in the mid-1970s, it transformed home entertainment. Bringing together complementary but also competing interests from the consumer electronics industry and the film, television and other copyright industries, video created a new sector of media business. Two decades later, DVD reinvented video media for the digital age. DVD provided consumers with an innovative form of entertainment technology and almost instantaneously became the catalyst for a huge boom in the video market. Although the VCR and DVD created major markets for video hardware and software, the video business has been continually shaped ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
International Screen Industries
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844571680
SKU
V9781844571680
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About Paul Mcdonald
PAUL MCDONALD is Reader in Film Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures, Roehampton University
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