Before There Were DVDs: The Film Industry

The first home video system, including a camera, monitor, 100-pound video recorder and special cabinet, was offered in the 1963 Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog -- for $30,000!

It was a little earlier than that -- JVC first introduced color VHS to the world in 1976.

Even in 2007, under certain lab conditions, scientists were able to demonstrate UHDTV ("U" for "Ultra") at 33 megapixels and 60 frames per second.

Actually, 12 million American workers are currently employed in the copyright industry.

A single film print -- the physical copy of the movie that gets sent to the theater in a metal lockbox -- can cost up to $2,000.

The IMAX 3-D "Polar Express" was released in November of 2004 to only 66 IMAX locations, and it made 25 percent of the total gross and earned about 14 times as much per screen as the 2D version.

Currently, the average cost to convert a standard film to 3D is about $30 million.

Futuresource Consulting reports that 32 percent of U.S. respondents made at least one illegal copy of a DVD over these six months -- that's a 10 percent increase from two years before.

Almost 80 percent of people asked said they'd be more likely to purchase a real copy of a DVD if they were unable to burn it, and 60 percent claimed they actually did purchase the real title.

In fact, the numbers are slightly more staggering: 375,000 jobs are lost each year to piracy, costing U.S. workers $16 billion in earnings.