DVD Leads Race for Movie Discs, for Now, NY Times reports
July 6, 1998
DVD Leads Race for Movie Discs, for Now
By JOEL BRINKLEY
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ASHINGTON -- The companies backing DVD, the CD-size digital disc that contains a feature-length movie, are boasting a lot these days, telling anyone who will listen that their product is selling faster than either compact-disc players or VCRs did at the corresponding points after they were introduced.
Credit: Dan Krauss for The New York Times
Carlos Montecino, left, shows Divx to a Circuit City customer in California.
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By late June, a little more than a year after the introduction of DVDs, manufacturers had sold nearly 600,000 DVD players. By comparison, in March 1985, 16 months after the compact disc was introduced, only 320,000 players had been sold. For VCRs in September 1979, the number was 515,000.
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