DVD movie sales double.THE number of films sold on DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. doubled to more than 37 million last year. Almost 2.4 million DVD players were also bought in the past year, 550,000 in the run-up to Christmas. A record 122 million videos were sold in Britain in the past 12 months, according to the British Video Association, 30% of which were on digital versatile disc digital versatile disc or digital video disc (DVD), a small plastic disc used for the storage of digital data. The successor media to the compact disc (CD), a DVD can have as much as 26 times the storage capacity of a CD. (DVD) format. However, the number of VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. movies sold dropped slightly from 87.3 million to 84.7 million in a year. Lavinia Carey, director general of the BVA BVA British Veterinary Association (London, UK) BVA Blinded Veterans Association BVA Board of Veterans' Appeals BVA Bond Van Adverteerders (Dutch Association of Advertisers) BVA British Video Association , said: "A reduction in price of DVD players to as low as pounds 100 has helped make DVD video the favourite present for Christmas." |
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