Word: dvd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with CD-ROM disks, DVD disks will first take the form of read-only devices (DVD-ROM). However, manufacturers are already working on a rewritable version of the disk (DVD-RAM) that will allow you to store and erase data from the disk just as with current floppy and hard disks. As a result, CDs would become a more attractive data backup option and there would be consolidation of multi-disk packages, such as electronic encyclopedias and phone directories...
...increased data storage capacity itself does not account for most of the industry's excitement over DVD...
...DVD utilizes a new video compression method called MPEG-2. In addition, DVD uses AC-3 audio coding--the same coding used by Dolby Sound--to offer significant enhancements in audio, such as the inclusion of different language tracks on one disk...
Learning from the Betamax vs. VHS wars in the video market, DVD manufacturers have agreed to a single set of specifications. Also, many Hollywood fears of pirating have been addressed with the announcement of a uniform copyright protection standard...
...more pressing question for manufacturers is whether the technology will take a more firm hold in DVD players that would replace CD-Audio players and VCRs, or DVD-ROM drives for computers that are backward compatible with current CD-ROM disks...