Video and DVD industries / Paul McDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald, Paul, 1963-

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm)

Class of 1939 Fund.

Series:

International screen industries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video recordings industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : British Film Institute, 2007.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

When the videocassette recorder was launched on the consumer market in the mid-1970s, it transformed home entertainment. Two decades later, DVD reinvented video media for the digital age. "Video and DVD Industries "is the first study to consider DVD from an industrial perspective. The book outlines industry battles over incompatible formats, from the Betamax/VHS war to competing laserdisc systems and to the introduction of HDDVD and Blu-ray high-definition systems. Chapters also look at the formation of international markets in the globalization of video media, the contradictory responses of the Hollywood studios to video and DVD, and the legal and technological measures taken to control industrialized video piracy.

Contents:

Introduction: The video business

Bringing entertainment home: the consumer electronics industry and the VCR

Disc to digital: from videodisc to DVD

Porous media: global diffusion of video and DVD

Hollywood Home Entertainment: controlling and profiting from video software

Videocopia: shaping the US market in the digital age

Illicit business: the global economy of industrialised video piracy

Conclusion: Video futures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-232) and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1939 Fund.

ISBN:

9781838711641

1838711643

Publisher Number:

99990133599

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.