Gallery: From reel-to-reel to Blu-ray

Here's a record player and reel-to-reel tape recorder that uses TDK tape. A retro table lamp also makes an appearance.

Photo credits: Tim Ferguson/silicon.com

This is one of the earliest home video recorders from the 1970s. It was made by JVC and uses TDK tapes.

A TDK VHS videocassette--first launched in 1978--also adds to the theme.

An Atari 2600 games console also makes an appearance in the 1980s section of the TDK trailer. The console contains a copy of the classic Space Invaders game.

An early Motorola flip phone joins a Gameboy on an inflatable chair - another classic 1990s design.

Compiling a mix tape remained one of the most popular past times during the era, especially with the popularization of the Sony Walkman--an example of which is also pictured--which meant, for the first time, you could take your music wherever you went.

The 2000s saw the rewritable DVD become another popular way of sharing films and music. TDK introduced its first recordable DVD (pictured) in 1998--complete with a 3.95GB capacity.

TDK manufactured MiniDiscs as well as digital tapes for mini video cameras like the Hitachi model pictured on the right.

Bringing us bang up to date, TDK also showed off its Blu-ray technology in this small cinema area in the Life on Record trailer.

This demo in the cinema area compares the picture quality of a standard DVD (on the left of the white line) with Blu-ray technology.