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Historical examples of new technologies superseding old ones include bronze replacing flint in hand-tools, DVDs replacing videocassettes, and the telephone replacing the telegraph. On a smaller scale, a particular product may become obsolete when a newer version replaces it. Many products in the computer industry become obsolete in this manner.
The DVD specifications created and updated by the DVD Forum are published as so-called DVD Books (e.g. DVD-ROM Book, DVD-Audio Book, DVD-Video Book, DVD-R Book, DVD-RW Book, DVD-RAM Book, DVD-AR (Audio Recording) Book, DVD-VR (Video Recording) Book, etc.). [1] [2] [3] DVD discs are made up of two discs; normally one is blank, and the other ...
Obsolete technology Replacement Still used for Bathing machine: No longer required due to changing social standards of morality Hourglass: Clock: Tasks where a fixed amount of time can be measured with a low-tech solution: Exposure time tracker in saunas (where electronics might be damaged by the heat or ultraviolet light); retro kitchen timers, board games, other short-term timers.
Despicable Me 2 is the best-selling Blu-ray disc on Amazon. Source: Amazon.com Almost since it came into being with the release of Sony's PlayStation 3, Blu-ray video discs have been dogged by doubts.
DVDs become available in Japan in 1995 and the US in 1997, making video cassettes obsolete by the early 2000s. Plasma flat panel televisions become commercially available later in the decade, competing against CRT televisions. Full color flat panel computer monitors are released commercially to the public in the mid-to-late 1990s
Many early discs were poorly manufactured, allowing oxidation to occur between layers: affected areas would become unreadable by hardware. [ 6 ] A false sense of security persists regarding digital documents: because an infinite number of identical copies can be created from original files, many users assume that their documents have a ...
It has become popular practice for discontinued TV shows to be released to DVD one season at a time every few months and active shows to be released on DVD after the end of each season. Prior to the television DVDs, most television shows were only viewable in syndication , on limited "best of" VHS releases of selected episodes or released ...
Video game preservationists, both organizations such as the Video Game History Foundation and hobbyists such as YouTuber The Completionist, [18] seek to preserve video game history that would have otherwise been lost to time, because of a variety of factors, such as degrading storage mediums, digital game stores closing, or the game becoming ...