Offering visual quality superior to VHS tapes, the first DVD-Video players became available at the end of 1996. A single-sided, single-layer DVD-Video disc holds approximately 133 minutes of full ...

Grearson noted that the video and audio compression ... to design dual-format players will be challenged by the design of the different physical disks. HD DVD is close to the current DVD disk ...

(1) Software that plays DVD discs. See media player. (2) A stand-alone unit that plays DVDs. DVD players and "DVD drives" are both input devices; however, the "player" is a DVD source for a TV or ...