Home media formats
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Order by the year each format or device launched for consumers. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Home media formats
Order by the year each format or device launched for consumers. You place all 32 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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Cards
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release years and dates
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How to play the home media timeline game
Every card is a way people played music or movies at home or on the go: records, tapes, discs, players, set-top boxes and early download services. The maker is listed under each name, and you sort them by the year they launched for consumers. One card is laid down first with its year on show. Drop each new card into the gap where you think it belongs. Right, and the year flips up; wrong, and the card still moves to its real place, costing you one of three lives.
Format wars are the heart of this deck, with rival tapes and discs arriving close together and one winner left standing. Sony shows up again and again, so the maker line will not settle every question. Remember that a format often reached homes years before it felt common, and that some machines you think of as an era's icon came along late in that era.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 32 cards you might be dealt, with 4 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Wax phonograph cylinder Edison
- Gramophone disc record Emile Berliner
- LP record Columbia Records
- 45 rpm single RCA Victor
- Compact Cassette Philips
- 8-track tape Lear Jet
- Super 8 film Kodak
- VHS JVC
- LaserDisc MCA DiscoVision
- Walkman Sony
- CED videodisc RCA SelectaVision
- Compact disc Sony and Philips
- Discman Sony
- Digital Audio Tape Sony
- Video CD Sony, Philips, JVC and Matsushita
- DVD Toshiba and partners
- Rio MP3 player Diamond Multimedia
- Netflix DVD rental Netflix
- TiVo TiVo Inc.
- Napster Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker
- iPod Apple
- iTunes Music Store Apple
- HD DVD Toshiba
- Blu-ray Sony
- Zune Microsoft
- Apple TV box Apple
- Roku player Roku
- Chromecast Google
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