DVDn.
/ˌdiːvɪˈdiː/, U.S. /ˌdiˌviˈdi/ 1. Digital versatile (sometimes video) disc; an optical disc format providing roughly four times the storage capacity of compact disc, as well as a higher data transfer rate, typically used for storing large amounts of data, video games, and broadcast-quality video material.This improved storage capacity, which is sufficient to allow the storage of significant amounts of broadcast-quality digital video on a single disc, partly results from the light used to read the disc having a narrower wavelength than is used for the compact disc format, enabling DVDs to make use of shorter pits than those on CDs.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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1993 Television Digest 30 Aug. 15/2 Pioneer's DVD system being developed incorporates advanced signal processing, precision writing to CD-size discs and data compression.
1996 Byte Oct. 139/1 DVD is the next-generation optical disk standard that will bring gigabytes to your desktop.
2001 Billboard 20 Oct. 76/2 DVD has reinvigorated consumers' enthusiasm for renting movies.
2013 W. Whittington in C. Vernallis et al. Oxf. Handbk. Sound & Image iv. 71 Consumer formats like DVD and Blu-ray are giving way to video-on-demand..and streaming.
2. An optical disc using this format. Also as a mass noun: such discs as a recording or storage medium; frequently in on DVD.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > optical disc
optical disc1957
DVD1994
1994 Variety 11 July 34 In May of this year, Sony and Philips announced the joint development of a quad density digital video disk—or DVD.
1998 Which? June 32/1 You can use DVDs to store large amounts of computer information.
2015 S. Guerrier & M. Kukula Sci. Secrets Doctor Who iii. 76 Every time you watch an episode of Doctor Who on DVD you're demonstrating that the weird behaviour of the quantum realm is real.
3. The contents of a DVD; a film or other video recording stored on a DVD.
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1998 VCR Recording of 18 Inch Minidish Programming in rec.video.satellite.dbs (Usenet newsgroup) 23 Jan. When I first watched a DVD..I could easily see the compression artifacts, especially on things like Twister.
2006 SuperBike June 9/1 This DVD proves that the lack of corners in America seriously damages the mental health of the country's motorcyclists.
2014 Daily Mirror 15 Jan. 23/1 Michaella McCollum spends her time in a Peruvian jail dancing, watching DVDs and learning how to cook.
Phrases
straight (also direct) to DVD: designating a film distributed on DVD without prior release in cinemas; of or relating to such a film. Often attributive. Cf. straight (also direct) to video at video adj. and n. Phrases 1. Sometimes with depreciative connotations.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types
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anthology1955
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XXX1969
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slice-and-dice1982
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Mad Max1986
stoner1987
bonkbusting1993
straight to DVD1997
1997 Billboard 28 June 91/3 The title is believed to be the first announced direct-to-DVD movie and is due in 1999.
2003 N.Y. Mag. 1 Dec. 38/3 Murder Inc. struck a deal..to distribute the soundtrack for the straight-to-DVD film Crime Partners.
2006 Time Out N. Y. 2 Nov. 131/3 Pulled from direct-to-DVD purgatory by Sony, Shottas..takes an arcless meander through the lives of a pair of Kingston criminals.
2016 T. K. Miller Mars in Movies v. 205 Because of the straight-to-DVD nature of this film, no professional critic that I could find deigned to acknowledge its existence.
Compounds
C1. attributive.
a. With the sense ‘in, relating to, or designating the digital versatile disc format’, as DVD disc, DVD format, DVD media, etc.
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1993 Television Digest 30 Aug. 15/2 Pioneer's DVD system being developed incorporates advanced signal processing, precision writing to CD-size discs and data compression.
1995 Billboard 7 Jan. 5/3 The new DVD discs will store about 3.7 gigabytes of data, or more than five times as much as conventional CDs.
1999 PC Mag. 4 May 209/3 DVD technology stores up to four layers of information on a single disk.
2002 Daily Tel. 17 Dec. 33/6 New..drives, video players and recorders..play all flavours of pre-recorded and recordable DVD media.
2014 Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, Va.) 1 Feb. d6/6 What type of optical disc is superseding the DVD format?..Blu-ray disc.
b. With the sense ‘of, relating to, or designating a film or other video recording commercially released on DVD’, as DVD boxset, DVD release, DVD rental, etc.
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1995 Business Wire (Nexis) 10 May The movie industry..envisioned a market..in which DVD movies would become as common as audio CDs.
1998 Orange County (Calif.) Register 30 Jan. (Show section) 24/3 Fearless Hyena/Dragon Fist/Snake & Crane: Arts of Shaolin..$49.99 for DVD box set.
2001 FHM Feb. 173/2 The big film studios have insisted that the world be divided into six regions for DVD sales.
2005 Hotdog Dec. 22/3 With the time between theatrical and DVD release rapidly shrinking, some are looking to avoid the cinema altogether.
2006 Cineaste Summer 71/1 A series of archival interviews that round out the DVD extras.
2015 Investor's Business Daily (Electronic text) 30 Oct. The DVD rental business is declining as more consumers shift to..streaming services like Netflix.
C2. attributive and objective, designating devices and pieces of software used for reading, recording, or copying DVDs.
DVD burner n.
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1997 Re: VHS to DVD in alt.video.dvd (Usenet newsgroup) 16 Dec. The companies should by now have managed to develop DVD-burners for the home-market.
2015 A. Rathbone Windows 10 for Dummies i. v. 109 Most DVD burners sold in the past few years can write to any type of blank CD or DVD.
DVD drive n.
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1994 Guardian 22 Dec. (OnLine section) 18/2 Forthcoming DVD drives should also be able to read conventional CD-ROM discs.
2004 Maximum PC July 57/1 Could I install four DVD drives and burn four different DVDs at once?
2014 N. Leonard Shredder viii. 249 The..laptop..was one of those sleek ultraslim numbers in brushed aluminum with no moving parts, not even a DVD drive.
DVD machine n.
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1994 Television Digest 26 Sept. 9 New DVD discs won't play on old CD players, but old CDs will play on new DVD machines.
2012 C. Hiaasen Chomp xxii. 228 She placed a disk in the DVD machine and played the uncut footage.
DVD player n.
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1994 Television DIgest 12 Sept. 12/1 Hawkins said mass-market pricing of HDCD or DVD players is at least 8–10 years away.
1999 Computerworld 13 Dec. 60 Programmers..were working to create a DVD player for Linux.
2014 S. Tucker Playground Mafia 364 I..shove the disc into the DVD player and throw myself on to the couch.
DVD reader n.
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1995 Re: Looking down Road in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Oct. Don't blow money on CD-ROM as DVD readers will be out in late 96 and they will take over the market very quickly.
2006 K. Rankin Linux Multimedia Hacks iii. 207 The PC used to create the movie must have a DVD reader, a CD burner, and at least 2 GB of free space.
DVD recorder n.
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1995 Audio Week 13 Mar. 2 [A paper will be presented by] Mitsubishi on development of MPEG-2 decoder for magneto-optical-based DVD recorders.
2014 M. Sloan Equalizer 179 There was a TV set..and..stacks of DVDs beside the set and the DVD recorder.
DVD ripper n.
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1998 DVD Ripper in alt.video.dvd (Usenet newsgroup) 3 Aug. Who's gonna write the first DVD ripper?
2013 B. D. Herman Fight over Digital Rights v. 73 For many, circumvention devices such as DVD rippers are effectively unavailable until they appear in mainstream retail stores.
DVD writer n.
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1995 Re: Tyrian: CD vs Floppy in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet newsgroup) 28 Nov. The DVD Writers are supposed to start around $1,500.
2010 Financial Times 1 Dec. 8/1 (advt.) The..laptop..has a built-in DVD writer which is an unexpected and welcome bonus.
C3.
DVD-audio n. now rare an audio recording format for recording audio (rather than video) on DVDs.
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1995 Video Week 11 Dec. 2 Oosterveld said it's likely basic digital video system will be known as ‘DVD’, with future extensions appropriately to be called ‘DVD-ROM’ or ‘DVD-Audio’.
2004 W. Howell DVD Authoring with Adobe Encore DVD i. 11 DVD-Audio offers much higher fidelity provided by higher sample rates and bit depths.
DVD-R n. DVD-recordable, a recordable DVD disc which can be recorded on only once; (also) this format of DVD; cf. CD-R n. at CD n.1 Compounds 2.
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1995 Television Digest 28 Aug. 12/2 Taiyo Yuden, major maker of write-once CDs, said it's developing DVD-R based on MMCD format.
1996 Sci. Amer. July 28/2 Within a few years, recordable DVD-RAM (random-access memory) and DVD-R (recordable) discs and players should reach the marketplace.
2003 Wired Jan. 51/1 (advt.) A recent test..indicates that DVD-R discs are more likely to play back on other DVD players than any other format of recordable disc tested.
2016 Japan News (Nexis) 10 July 5 It can be saved on a DVD-R, USB or even through a cloud-based online service.
DVD-RAM n. [ < DVD n. + RAM n.6] a recordable DVD disc which can be re-recorded on many times, designed especially for general data storage; (also) this format of DVD.
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1995 Re-writeable DVD has been Developed in alt.video.dvd (Usenet newsgroup) 31 Oct. TDK has developed a re-writable DVD. The actual product is intended to be used for DVD-RAM, but technically I see no reason for not also using this for video applications.
1996 Sci. Amer. July 28/2 Within a few years, recordable DVD-RAM (random-access memory) and DVD-R (recordable) discs and players should reach the marketplace.
1999 BBC Music Mag. Apr. 59 There is already an eraseable version of DVD, called DVD-RAM, intended mainly for use with computers.
2012 Sunday Mail (S. Austral.) (Nexis) 26 Feb. 14 DVD-RAM was initially created for storing computer data, making them ideal for backing up your hard drive.
DVD-ROM n. [ < DVD n. + ROM (in CD-ROM n. at CD n.1 Compounds 2)] a DVD disc on which data can be stored and which is designed to be used as read-only memory; (also) this format of DVD.Like CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs are frequently used to store interactive multimedia content.
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1995 Re: Digital Video Disc (DVD) in alt.video.laserdisc (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Aug. Where is this unique market that you think there is for DVD-ROM?
2000 Times 17 Nov. 16/3 (advt.) AMD Athlon Processor 850MHz. 64Mb SDRAM, 20Gb Hard Disk, DVD-ROM and CD-ReWriter.
2016 Philippine Star (Nexis) 27 Mar. A set of 10 DVD-Roms which represent her lifetime's work.
DVD-RW n. DVD-rewritable, a recordable DVD disc that can be recorded on repeatedly and which is also erasable; (also) this format of DVD; cf. CD-RW n. at CD n.1 Compounds 2.
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1996 Re: Final Word on N64 in rec.games.video.nintendo (Usenet newsgroup) 29 Dec. Imagine..a 30X DVD-RW drive with storage of 17GB.
2002 Digital Photogr. made Easy No. 12. 18/3 Three different formats, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and DVD+RW, have sprung up.
2015 Times of India (Nexis) 25 Dec. On the right side of the panel users get one USB 2.0 port and the DVD-RW drive.
DVD-video n. a commercial video format for recording video on DVDs.DVD-video was developed by the DVD Forum, a consortium of hardware, software, and media companies, and first made available under license in 1996.
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1996 CD-ROM Professional July 55/1 With much-heralded new formats like DVD Video and DVD-ROM stirring up expectations and dreams of mass-market penetration for new and existing formats throughout the industry, it seems [etc.].
2001 Smarthouse Feb. 45/1 This means that consumers can create their own DVD and play the bare disc back on both existing and DVD-Video and DVD-ROM equipment.
2006 A. Michael Animating with Flash 8 viii. 204 An interesting aspect of DVD-Video is the ability to have the 24 frames per second..film encoded at 24 frames a second.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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