[Snickering Hound]

First Sony DVD player was $1100.

[RayChuang88]

What the DVD format did was to make it a LOT more convenient to watch movies, with picture quality right at the limit of CRT TV's of the day. The arrival of 480p progressive scan DVD players in 2001 (along with players that played the discs that supported the widescreen 480p progressive scan format) hastened the demise of many movie theaters.