DVD turns 30

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JackHandy said:

curl-6 said:

I mean 30 years and counting isn't that short-lived; it may have only gotten 10 years before Blu Ray arrived, but DVD continued long after that, it's still going today 20 years after its "replacement".

VHS came out in the late 70's and lasted until the early 00's as the dominant format. DVDs lasted from the early 00's to... the middle 00s? Late 00's? By 2006, Blu-Ray was here. By 2007, Netflix's streaming service had arrived. A few short years after that, it had surpassed both DVD and Blu-Ray as the de-facto way to consume movies.

It really is kind of ridiculous when you think about how short a run DVD had. It deserved better.

DVD didn't stop in 2006 when Blu Ray came out or in 2007 when Netflix arrived though; it's still being manufactured and sold today, 30 years after its introduction, which I believe is as long as VHS lasted (1976-2006 IIRC)