What does the future hold for DVD?
Where did it come from? To better understand what it is, we need to examine our second question, where did it come from. DVD is an acronym for Digital Video Disc, which has morphed into Digital Versatile Disc. The reason this transformation took place will hopefully become clearer as we get into the details of the technology. DVD is a spin-off of the Compact Disc technology we have come to know and love today. As digital technology has been growing and expanding very rapidly, people started putting more and more different types of media-information into digital format. For example the move from storing just text based information to storing sounds and images. However, these other types of media took lots of storage space and the current magnetic tape types of media storage were no longer adequate. Hence, the Compact Disc (CD) came along to answer the challenge. A CD is a non-magnetic polished metal disc, with a protective plastic coating that is used to store digital information, and i
