Video and DVD Industries

by Paul McDonald

When the videocassette recorder was launched on the consumer market in the mid-1970s, it transformed home entertainment. Bringing together complementary but also competing interests from the consumer electronics industry and the film, television and other copyright industries, video created a new sector of media business. Two decades later, DVD reinvented video media for the digital age. DVD provided consumers with an innovative form of entertainment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844571688
• ISBN13: 9781844571680
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"