| 释义 |
home video
Also home-video.
[home n.1 B. 1.]
I. attrib.
1. Of or pertaining to video and video equipment for use in the home.
1968[see video n. 6]. 1977Washington Post 20 Feb. k6 The home-video idea..is making one of its periodic bids for attention. 1979Ibid. 11 Feb. l5/2 To imagine how large the home-video market may become, think of the record industry. 1980Christian Science Monitor (Midwestern ed.) 4 Dec. 19/1 The road out of the red will be long, bumpy, and paved with home-video sales. 1982N.Y. Times 30 Mar. c12 Hollywood is worried these days about..the unknown impact of new home-video technologies.
II. absol. or as n.
2. a. The production or use of video recordings intended to be watched at home.
1977Economist 14 May 117/3 Home video looks like being the next major consumer electronics market. 1983N.Y. Times 27 June 1 Only six years ago, the business that Hollywood calls ‘home video’..did not exist. 1985Music Week 2 Feb. 40/4 CBS will be giving its all to convincing record retailers to take on home video.
b. A video recorder or video recording marketed for home use; also, a home-made video recording (cf. home movie).
1983Listener 21 Apr. 29/2 The ladies who feature with her on her home-video were such that ‘a man would be lucky to get out of them alive’ (hysterical laughter). 1984N.Y. Times 5 July c14 ‘Blacks laugh at different things’ when they see home videos of his show. |