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The DVD-Video format was introduced first on November 1, 1996, in Japan; to the United States on March 26, 1997 (test marketed); and mid-to-late 1998 in Europe and Australia. While the DVD was highly successful in the pre-recorded retail market, it failed to displace VHS for in home recording of video content (e.g. broadcast or cable television).
- JVC (Victor Company of Japan)
While the VHS format has basically ceased to exist outside of relics that still haunt closets around the country, it was still one of the most pervasive video formats in all of history. Tracing its history, you’ll find it way more interesting than a simple cassette invention that appeared out of nowhere then disappeared almost as quickly.
- Super 8 Film. When Kodak launched the Super 8 film camera in 1965, it was the Baby Boomer equivalent of the iPhone, reports Remy Melina at LiveScience. Unlike previous home movie cameras which had to be threaded into the camera by hand, Super 8 users could just pop in a cartridge, shoot 3 minutes of the warm, grainy film and turn them into a developer.
- Floppy Disks. For the vast majority of people, floppy disks, whether they are the big eight-inch, more manageable five-inch, or once ubiquitous 3.5-inch versions are gone and dead, uselessly sitting in a decaying media storage box somewhere in the basement.
- Vinyl. According to Hugh McIntyre at Forbes, vinyl records have been a lone bright spot in the record industry over the last decade. As CD sales have tanked and digital downloads have stagnated, vinyl sales keep going up, increasing by 30 percent in 2015, to about 12 million albums.
- Printed Books. While some envision a future where even libraries do away with most of their printed books, readers loyal to physical texts aren’t having it.
Video Media Timeline | Museum of Obsolete Media. A brief history of video recording and playback, from the 1950s onward, including details of all the video media in the Museum in chronological order of introduction. See also the galleries of video tape and video discs. 1950s.
Jun 3, 2022 · Disappearing from store shelves in the early years of this century, there’s a good chance that younger readers don’t recall using or watching one at all; with VHS players appearing like some...
The VHS tape dominated the home movie market for twenty years. Families all over the world gathered around their televisions to watch their favorite films and home videos on the format. It wasn’t until 1997 when the DVD first came out that the VHS format began to experience a small decrease in popularity.
Jun 28, 2023 · Jun 28, 2023. Decoding an Era: The History of VHS Tapes. Throughout the final decades of the 20th century, households across the globe were virtually incomplete without the Video Home System (VHS). In those days, the act of watching a movie was as simple as sliding a VHS tape into a Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) and hitting the play button.
