The History of Home Video Entertainment

History of home video entertainment begins with the Video Home System, VHS, a recording and playing standard medium developed by Japan Victor Company (JVC), first launched in 1976. There is also competitive product to this, Betamax, which was produced by Sony. VHS initially offered a longer playing time than the Betamax system, and had the advantage of a far less complex tape transport mechanism. This two products use magnetic tape as a medium. The VHS cassette made from plastic clamshell.

The Laserdisc (LD) is the first commercial use of optical disc storage medium. The standard home video laserdisc is 30 cm, in diameter and made up of two single-sided aluminum discs layered in plastic and bonded with glue. After that, this optical disc storage has been reduced by size from 30 cm to 12 cm Video CD format. Video CD, VCD, also known as View CD, is a standard digital format for storing video on a Compact Disc. The latest development of optical disc storage medium is DVD (also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc, which is a popular optical disc storage media format. Its main uses are video and data storage. Most DVDs are of the same dimensions as Video CD, but DVD can store more than six times as much data, with better quality. By 2006, most major film studios stopped releasing new movie titles in VHS format, opting for DVD only releases. Many retailers have stopped selling pre-recorded movies on VHS.

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Truman Show: when you live Directly inside TV

The Truman Show is set in an artificial world, called Seahaven, where an entire town is dedicated to a continually running in TV show. All of the participants are actors, except for Truman Burbank (Jim Carey). Truman was chosen out of five babies to be a TV star, whereupon film producer Christof ordered built a gigantic studio. Truman did not realize that he lives in a constructed reality set for tv show outside.

Truman is a man whose life is a fake. The place he lives in is a gigantic studio with hidden cameras everywhere, and all his friends and people around him, are actors who play their roles in the most popular direct TV series in the world: The Truman Show. Truman thinks that he is an ordinary man, married with an ordinary life and has no idea about how he is exploited. Until one day, he finds out everything.

To prevent Truman from trying to go outside studio, the producer made an incident which make Truman phobia to water. The producer created a plot that Truman’s father was dead in a staged boating incident . This incident makes Truman afraid of water for 30 years. Because Seahaven is an island, this fear removes Truman's every chance of escape. Truman begins to realize the unrealistic routine of his world and tries to escape Seahaven. He finally reaches the edge of the constructed reality and exits via a door in the wall, cheered on by audience of millions as he embarks on an unscripted and hopeful future. This is the longest tv show in the history, held for more than 30 years.

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Serendipity: when love meet in trade show exhibit

The story begins from the time when Jonathan meets Sara. Both of them tried their best to buy the same pair of gloves as Christmas gift to their beloved at one of trade show exhibit in Bloomingdale's department store, and later became curious to one another. Most of this film takes place seven years later, and consists lots of repeated "almost coincidences" where the two characters fall in love, but not quite meet each other. Both of them believe in superstitious.

There is even a time when Jonathan act like a detective to find out Sara’s phone number. Jonathan went to one of those trade show exhibits again seven years later, in order to find out this by checking the data from billing receipt, but, the merchant there ask him to buy lots of their product first. The situation became uncontrollable as they can’t find the data, which has been stored in the storage room for seven years. Actually, Sara has already put her number in one book that she sold it later to one of the old bookstore. The title of the book is one of John can memorize, so he tried his best to find that book, but later he found the book as a gift from his fiancee on the night before his wedding. This is another 'sign' that Sara is still in love with him.

Both Sara and Jonathan at that particular moment where circling around the city and missed their meeting by chances, it is like fate toyed them around. Until finally both given up, Sara went to the ice skating ring where the two of them finish their night off. Again, fate let them meet there. In the end, and later celebrate their anniversary in that trade show exhibit in Bloomingdale.

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