Home video
Videos
Home video is recorded media sold or rented for home viewing. The term originates from the VHS and Betamax era, when the predominant medium was videotapes, but has carried over to optical disc formats
Some home video users have a collection of prerecorded media, such as movies, on DVDs. DVDs are only one of a number of ways of viewing home video.
Movie boxes on display at a video rental store
By the 2000s, home video purchasers moved away from videotapes, increasingly preferring DVDs. Pictured is a cart of used videotape movies on sale at a used-goods market in 2004.
Early UHD Blu-ray release at Best Buy: A UHD Blu-ray disc player was also released.
Blu-ray
Videos
Blu-ray is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in the early-mid 2000s and released worldwide on June 20, 2006, capable of sto
Reverse (data) side of a Blu-ray. Unlike CD and DVD, the reflection has a blue hue. Branded colors include silver, gold, and grey.
Kees Schouhamer Immink received a personal Emmy award for his pioneering contributions to the DVD and the Blu-ray Disc.
Blu-ray case (often blue-tinted)