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A: Daimon, Nagawa, Nagano, Japan

DVDs are Introduced

9/1996 to 3/1997

In September 1996 DVD specification 1.0 (Digital Video Disc) was finalized. The capacity of the original single-sided, single layer DVD-1 was 1.46 gigabytes. The first DVD players and discs were available in November 1996 in Japan, and in March 1997 in the United States.

The first movie commercially released on DVD was Twister.

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