How DVD's changed television

Marisa López-Rivera

A glance at the current issue of Television & New Media: How DVD's changed television

The advent of the DVD has made it possible for television to follow a business model similar to that adopted by the film industry in the face of competition from home videos, writes Derek Kompare, an assistant professor of cinema and television at Southern Methodist University.

The model was developed in response to the introduction of VHS technology, in the 1970s. Although