Reel Two: Digital Discs Await Acceptance as Post-VCR Tools

摘要

Digital formats are cropping up with increasing regularity in professional broadcast systems ― and consumer demand is beginning to focus on digital recording as well. In response, manufacturers are offering a proliferation of hard drives, disc drives and hybrid drives that can record digital broadcasts. Consumers caught an initial glimpse of the potential of digital video recording when manufacturers first released DVD players. Further whetting user interest in digital technology was the introduction of the Digital VHS (D-VHS) VCR, which is interchangeable with standard VHS formats, but can record digital signals and offers up to 49 hours of recording in the long-play mode.