Improving Technology for Movie Watching at Home

Watching movies at home has been transformed by Blu-ray players and discs, it is the only way to view a movie. If you still watch DVD then you may be in the middle ages of technology and it is time to upgrade. Once you move to Blu-ray you will wonder what took you so long to make the step up.

The reason the BD is better is because of the technology. The amount of data that can be crammed onto a BD disc is just amazing. It can literally hold more than five times as much information on each disc. That means that you could get the entire Star Wars saga on just one disc if you wanted to. Think about it this way, back when you had a VCR, you thought that it was a pretty good piece of technology. You could watch movies at home, which was an awesome development. Before that, you would have to wait for a movie to come on regular television to see it.

When cable came on the scene and more consumers chose to have it put into their homes, the movie wait became even shorter, and the movie wasn't edited by time and content by the networks. The next technology fight was between BetaMax and VHS as they tried to dominate the market, that gave another consumer choice. Buying one of these machines could be an expensive output but it gave you the option of when to watch your favorite movies.

Of course, tapes were so expensive; most people only had one or two and would usually rent something or borrow it from a friend. The tapes would be watched so many times that they would start to wear out. And if you happened to leave it in the car a little longer than you should have on a summer day, you could ruin it so easily. Finally, the VHS won out over Beta and the first video format war was over.

Now people got fifteen years of uninterrupted format security. Sure, a couple of people came in and tried to make a splash with LaserDisc, but no other format made much of a difference and VHS stayed at the top until DVD came along and took its place.