Is DVD Dead? UNIT 58 DVD MENU DESIGN and Authoring

CDs were invented by Sony and Phillips in 1980 and from CD's, later on in 1998, Dvds were invented. in the US and Europe and also sold publicly around that time as well. They then became popular around 2001 but still people rented video cassettes around then. Later on in 2003 to 2006 Blu ray discs started to come into publicity and were released with the Play stations 3 consoles on the 11th of November in 2006. DVDs still exist till this present day but there are signs that indicate to DVDs loosing its popularity and disappearing.

DVDs are the thin circle CD disc's used in DVD players and game consoles mostly these days to watch films. DVD The word DVD originally meant digital versatile disc. People have always use DVD discs to store data which is why we are able to watch films and shows on them.

When you put a DVD into a DVD player you always have options to chose from whether its to watch the film or check out the special features of the film that may also be on the disc. You can also skip scenes and go straight to where you left off with the scene selection option and also you often have the ability to turn on subtitles.

DVDs can be found almost anywhere these days whether its in shops or online. Media stores like HMV are filled with both Blu ray DVD discs and normal DVD discs. DVDs are also sold in convenient stores such as ASDA, Tesco, Morrison and sometimes even corner shops.

Although DVDs are still currently quiet popular, Online movies and entertainment in general is always evolving and slowly dominating. The new generations of students and young adults are more familiar with the new evolving technologies such as the internet and pocket portable devices which can hold way more data than an common DVD can hold allowing them to be able to stream and watch things anywhere. Also with the DVD portable devices, you have to have a disc drive and a screen in proportion to the device and disc drive which would probably take up a lot of space in order for you to be able to watch something. It is simply easier to stream watch things on to things like android phones and tablets as well as consoles at home these days which is why DVDs are loosing their popularity and businesses and stores like HMV are loosing money.

I personally think that DVDs in the next 15 years will be the equivalent to video cassettes and that the next main form of data storing will be on memory chips. an example of what it could possibly be like would be Nintendo 64 game cartridges or game boy cartridges depending on the size of the device. The reason why I think that will be the result is because of things like USB's and SD cards. The interesting things they both have in common is that they are both very portable, currant students and younger generations are used to memory card storage for data and have the potential to store lots of data.