| The very first DVD players and discs were available | | | | Multimedia Compact Disc, which backed by two |
| in November of 1996 in Japan. In the early March of | | | | electronics majors in the market- Philips and Sony. |
| 1997 it penetrated into the United States. By 1998 | | | | The other one was the Super Density Disc, which |
| DVD players were available in Europe and in 2003, | | | | was supported by other electronic majors in the |
| DVD sales and rental records were more than that | | | | market - Toshiba, Time-Warner, Matsushita Electric, |
| of VHS. However, to operate a DVD player, you | | | | Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Thomson, and JVC. |
| need to have a DVD ROM. | | | | However, it was IBM's president, Lou Gerstner, who |
| DVDs are the popular optical disc storage devices | | | | acted as the matchmaker, which led an effort to |
| that are formatted. The main function of a DVD is | | | | unite the two camps behind a single standard, |
| for video and data storage. Mostly DVDs are the | | | | anticipating a repeat of the costly format war |
| same dimension as compact discs, but store more | | | | between VHS and Betamax in the 1980s. |
| than six times the data than any compact disc. | | | | Once this step was initiated Philips and Sony |
| The DVD ROM is a further classification the DVD. | | | | abandoned their Multimedia Compact Disc format and |
| The main function of the DVD ROM is to store data, | | | | agreed to adapt the Toshiba's Super Density disc |
| which can only be stored and not written. The | | | | format with two modifications that were both |
| DVD-R can be written once and then functions as a | | | | related to the servo tracking technology. The first |
| DVD-ROM. | | | | one was the adoption of a pit geometry that allows |
| The DVD was originally initialized for Digital Video Disc. | | | | push-pull tracking, a proprietary of Philips and Sony |
| However, others objected to that and suggested | | | | technology. The second adaptation was the Philips' |
| that DVD should stand for - Digital Versatile Disc. The | | | | EFMplus technology. The advantage of this |
| reason behind this argument was that this name | | | | technology is the flexibility against disc damage such |
| explains the DVDs extensive use even for non-video | | | | as scratches and fingerprints. The summation of the |
| applications. Toshiba, one of the major electronics | | | | Multimedia Compact disc format and Super Density |
| good manufacturers, to date still holds on to the | | | | Disc gave rise to the DVD specification version 1.0 in |
| interpretation of Digital Versatile Disc. This subject to | | | | the year 1995 and was released in September of |
| date has not yet been concluded.. Thus, today the | | | | 1996. |
| official name of the format is simply DVD, the letters | | | | With the release of the DVD in the market, it slowly |
| of which officially do not denote anything. | | | | spread to various parts of the world. By the year |
| The journey of the DVD began back in the early | | | | 1999, DVDs were available worldwide and broke |
| 1990s. It began with two high-density optical storage | | | | various sales records. |
| standards being developed. The first one was the | | | | |