Six years after the initial launch, close to one thousand models of DVD players were available from over a hundred consumer electronics manufacturers.įujitsu released the first DVD-ROM-equipped computer on November 6 in Great Britain. In 2003 players became available for under $50. By the end of 2000, players were available for under $100 at discount retailers. Prices for the first players in 1997 started at $600 and could top out at prices over $1000. Players slowly trickled into other regions around the world. The first players appeared in Japan on November 1, 1996, followed by the United States on March 31, 1997, with distribution limited to only seven major cities for the first six months.
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Delivery was initially held up for "political" reasons of copy protection demanded by movie studios, but was later delayed by lack of movie titles. Some manufacturers originally announced that DVD players would be available as early as the middle of 1996. The first DVD player was created by Sony Corporation in Japan in collaboration with Pacific Digital Company from the United States in 1997. DVD players are connected to a television to watch the DVD content, which could be a movie, a recorded TV show, or other content. Some DVD players will also play audio CDs. A Philips DVD player with built-in four-directional control buttonsĪ DVD player is a device that plays DVDs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards.