Who was father of DVD?

John Logie Baird has been called the father of television as it is easy to see that he produced the very first working television system in the world. He did his development work in his own building with his own resources and with his own hands.

The development of CDs and later, DVDs were both commercial developments by a group of companies. The DVD was the result of years' of negotiation between manufacturers, Hollywood production companies and development companies.

Perhaps the closest we can come to finding a father for the DVD is to put forward either Sony or Philips as candidates, being the original companies who began the development of the DVD. It will be hard to select one or the other so we should probably settle for both having shared parenting of the disc format.