Compared with other optical media, one of the most distinctive things about DVDs is the variety of packaging that has been used with them. Many different designs have protected many a disc (or more, in the case of boxed sets and such) throughout the nearly two decades since the format’s debut. That was because it wasn’t always clear what would be the best way to present them, with a wide proliferation of styles Kamagra jelly existing especially in the early years. Article Number Nine is a short retrospective of such efforts now seldom seen, if at all.

Some of the first DVDs were sold in the jewel cases commonly used with CDs, but this approach was soon abandoned so as to avoid any possible consumer confusion and quickly relegated to use only by budget titles from bottom-tiered companies. Because Video CDs or VCDs had had a fairly substantial market share in Asia, DVDs were still packaged in jewel cases there for a little while longer. In the United States, however, larger slipcases were used, where the disc was held in a tray cialis dosages that slid out through a slot-like opening at the bottom.

Warner Brothers and MGM were exceptions that insisted on cardboard snap cases at the very start. But the most successful DVD case of all is the almost universally adopted keep case, resembling a book like the snap case but made out of tougher plastic materials. Over eighteen thousand DVD movies are available in keep cases. Eventually, even video games delivered on DVD adopted the keep case – even though it was video games that had first used keep cases (more on this below). The keep case became so popular that the company Amaray became a genericized trademark denoting all keep cases.

Cover art is displayed on a paper sleeve that’s protected behind Cialis Jelly a transparent jacket integrated into the case. Of particular usefulness was the keep case’s ability to store paper inserts or even booklets of considerable thickness via plastic clips on the inside cover. A small “hub” fitting in the center hole secures the discs. Special designs allowed for multiple-disc sets, like those used for TV shows. Specific designs used for video games offered an extra protrusion for holding memory cards. Indeed, keep cases were first used to hold video games, back in the time of cartridge-based consoles. Such keep cases have now become collectibles because most video games then were sold in cardboard boxes. These days keep cases are standard packaging for practically all disc-based video games.

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