History of Video Technology
1996 -Sony introduced into its range of Handycam camcorders a model that can film for long periods and features a built-in 4-inch LCD monitor (left) as well as a supercompact model equipped with a 3-inch LCD monitor.
1997 -Sony's MaviCap transforms camcorder into digital camera
The MaviCap is designed for a single task -- to capture any image from a
camcorder (or any video source with an analog output) and save it to a
standard floppy disk as a 640 x 480 JPEG file.
Sony releases DVD to the States. The DVD, "Digital Video Disk",
provides high-quality pictures and sound on a disk that can play for an
hour or two in its standard guise and for half the day in a long-playing version.
Using lasers and plastic disks instead of video tapes gives a big advantage to DVDs.
1998 -Dolby Laboratories license its Dolby Digital audio encoding technology
to consumer product manufacturers. It records stereo Dolby Digital audio on DVD-RAM,
DVD-RW, and multimedia PC products.
Canon Optura is first hybrid DVcamcorder and digital still camera.
It captures both digital video and digital still photos for use.
