The music companies were there as well. One company I didn't expect to see was Roland. One of the pioneers and leaders in music synthesizers, keyboards and sequencers, Roland wants to be involved in video, DVD, and web music in a big way. Music production is a topic well beyond the scope of this article but suffice to say that music makes the program. It won't save a bad program, but bad music can ruin a good one.
Studies show that DVD is the fastest growing entertainment technology in the history of the world.
It has grown faster than CD technology in the 80's. A DVD disc holds many times the information of a CD rom. A DVD can hold two entire versions of a movie such as a wide screen and letter boxed version, several dialog tracks, and text for subtitles, chapter headings, etc. DVD authoring is still rather expensive. An authoring software where you assemble your program with various chapters, new titles, games, transitions, etc.