Toshiba DVD player

Title
Toshiba DVD player
Year/Period
1990s
Region
Japan
Dimension
Object size: 8.0 x 43.0 x 29.5 cm,
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2022-00818
Credit Line
Gift of Ng Beng Kie

This is a Toshiba DVD player (SD-K320) produced in the 1990s in Japan. It was able to play DVDs, VCDs and CDs. The DVD was a digital optical disc data storage format released in 1996 that offered high storage capacity for the time. As a medium for home video distribution, it allowed users to watch videos in higher quality, enhancing home entertainment. In Singapore, DVD players were first sold in 1997, becoming more affordable and common by the 2000s.