Day in Tech History

Day in Tech History


March 19, 1997: First Consumer DVD Player Released in U.S.

March 18, 2019

1997 – Toshiba – a member of the DVD consortium – put out the first consumer DVD player on November 1, 1996 in Japan as the SD-3000. After some initial changes (and having to change the DVD region code for U.S. based DVD players),