International Cinema Festival of India

When we think of music we normally associate our mental images with DVD players and the stereo players of different kinds. If you sit down for a while and think of what DVD is all about, you will actually realize that DVDs came about because we needed some storage devise to store and transport data.

Those were the days when our lives were filled with tapes and floppy disks, which today are difficult to find. These were not able to store huge amount of data and besides were easily corruptible. With the improvement of technology and storage media, we got the compact disks. Compact Disks were welcome because they could be used to store huge amount of data and bigger files. Besides they were water proof and the data storage and retrieval was stable.

It makes us laugh now to think of how we all used hundreds of floppy disks and cassettes at home as well as in offices to store small amount of data and keep reusing them though not reliable. As our need for storage of data began to increase, there was no other option but to look at alternate storage mechanisms with higher capacity and stability too.

There was actually no other option for the techies but to find an immediate solution to the data storage problem and come up with some stable and doable new format addressing all the weaknesses as well as the requirements. The problem was being addressed differently by different groups until such time that everybody began to collaborate and the new DVD format was born as a solution to the data storage problem and a feasible and stable alternative.

There was unprecedented demand which forced producers to immediately increase production and rush stocks to the market. In a short time the stocks were available at all retail shelves and people could easily buy and take home packs of CDs.

The markets which received the supplies of CDs first in the mid 90s were the Japanese markets and it took almost a year for the stocks to reach American consumers followed by European markets too. Today all over the world you can find them easily.

The accreditation of having invented DVD player for portable use went rightly to a Japanese company. You can say that this was the trigger for a revolution in mobile entertainment and storage industry.

Who benefited the most you think from this development? Of course, who else but the families that spent their vacations driving down across the country. Instead of loads and stacks of floppy disks they had to lug around, now they could carry their children’s favorite movies and cartoons in few DVDs.

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