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Digital media
- DVDIn January 1995, two rival optical disc proposals stood on the brink of a commercial stalemate. The Multimedia Compact Disc carried the backing of Philips…
- VHSIn 1971, JVC engineers Yuma Shiraishi and Shizuo Takano assembled a team to build a video tape recorder for home use. They created an internal diagram called…
- Streaming mediaThe word streaming first appeared in the 1970s to describe tape drives made by Data Electronics Inc. These machines needed to ramp up slowly and run…
- Downloadable contentIn 1994, the Atari 2600's GameLine service allowed users to download full games using a telephone line. This early experiment did not provide downloadable…
- Video gameOn the 25th of January 1947, Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a patent for a cathode-ray tube amusement device.
- Digital video recorderIn 1985, Hitachi demonstrated a prototype digital video tape recorder that used digital recording video tape as storage media to record digital HD video…
- Information AgeIn 1947, a team at Bell Labs in New Jersey created the first working transistor. John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain built this germanium-based…