Is The DVD Dead?

A DVD, also known as a 'Digital Video Disc' is a disc that is used as storage format. It enables consumers to insert the disc into a computer, or a DVD player where they can then play the disc and watch what's on it. With this disc you can, play, pause, stop, rewind and fast forward to your chosen part on the disc.
Before you start watching what you want to see on it, there may be short video clips advertising other films that have a similar theme or genre to the film that you're about to watch, until you get to the main menu of your DVD.

DVD's are very useful as you have a main menu. On the main menu, there's subtitles incase you want to read the words, different chapters index's which makes it easier for you to go to a particular scene of the film and you can change it to a different language.

Over the past few years, DVD's have become a format that is not used very often making the DVD a dead format these days. This is because there are many other devices where people can watch films on, such as:

• Mobile Phones
• Ipads
• Tablets
• Kindles

We also have the Internet where we can go onto websites to watch any film that you like. These websites are:

• YouTube
• Netflix
• LoveFilm

DVD's and on demand websites are similar as they both have copyright issues so that the owner who created the project first gets loyalty for their work.

As well as being able to watch films on these websites, if you've missed one of your TV shows, you can catch up on them on the following websites:

• BBC iPlayer
• ITV Player
• Sky On Demand

Many people used to go out and buy DVD's in shops, but as we have all of these different types of platforms and new technology everyday, that no one really has time to go out and buy the films when they can just download the film online or on their mobile device. Also, after you've had a DVD for a certain amount of time, it ends up getting scratched and you're not able to watch certain parts of the film as it either freezes or doesn't play which gets annoying.

Therefore, the answer to the question is that the DVD could be seen as dead because some people do not use it anymore. However, there are some people out there who still buy DVD's  as they like to have the actual format disc and they find that the signal won't be messed up while they're watching the DVD.

Overall, I think that the DVD is dead because new technology's being created and developed everyday and sooner or later, DVD's will not exist anymore as we'll be watching films on new devices.