DVD

Digital video disc.

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"Digital Versatile Disk." (Formerly Digital Video Disk.)
Same size as a CD but stores seven times CD capacity
on a single side. DVDs can also be double-sided or dual
layer. Today most DVDs are used to display full-length
commercial motion pictures, plus additional material
such as outtakes, director's notes, movie trailers, etc.
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Officially known as the Digital Video Disc, though
marketers unofficially refer to it as the Digital Versatile
Disc. DVD uses a 5-inch disc with anywhere from 4.5
Gb (single layer, single-sided) to 17 Gb storage
capacity (double-layer, double sided). It uses MPEG2
compression to encode 720:480p resolution, full-
motion video and Dolby Digital to encode 5.1 channels
of discrete audio. The disc can also contain PCM, DTS,
and MPEG audio soundtracks and numerous other
features. ...
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Digital Versatile Disc. An optic disc with the same
physical size as a CD but with significantly greater
storage capacity.
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DVD, introduced in 1996, was originally known as
Digital Video Disc but soon became known as Digital
Versatile Disc. It is the next generation of optical disc
storage technology. which shares the same overall
dimensions of a CD, but have significantly higher
capacities - holding from 4 to 28 times as much data.
Single sided DVDs can store 4.7GB for single layer and
8.5GB for dual-layer disks. Double sided DVDs can
store 9.4GB for single layer and 17GB for dual-layer
disks.
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Digital Versatile Disk. A compact-disc format with much
higher capacity than traditional CD-ROM.
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(Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) A type of
optical disk similar to the CD-ROM but with much
greater storage capacity. A DVD holds a minimum of
4.7GB of data, enough for a full-length movie. DVD
drives are backward-compatible with CD-ROMs, so they
can play old CD-ROMs, CD-I disks, and video CDs.
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(Digital Versatile Disk) is an optical disc storage media
format that is used for playback of movies with high
video and sound quality and for storing data. DVDs are
similar in appearance to compact discs.
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Digital Versatile Disk, formerly Digital Video Disc. An
optical storage medium with improved capacity and
bandwidth compared with the Compact Disc.-FOLDOC.
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Digital Versatile Disc
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A DVD disc looks much like a CD-ROM or audio disc,
but uses higher density storage methods to significantly
increase storage capacity.
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Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc. A sort of
Usuper" CD, with enhanced storage capacity. EBCDIC
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A storage format that uses optical disks similar to CD-
ROMs to store information. A DVD disc is about the
same size as a CD-ROM, although it stores much
greater quantities of information: an entire movie, or
several hours of audio, or 5 gigabytes or more of
computer data. DVD stands for Digital Video Disc or
Digital Versatile Disc.
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Digital Video Disc (officially called Digital Versatile Disc)
is the best way to view a wedding video. This
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[Digital Video Disk] a DVD system delivers a picture
with over twice the definition of standard VHS. The
high-density technology on the DVD disc stores over
two times the number of pixels (720 per horizontal
line) compared to standard VHS (320 per horizontal
line).
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Digital Versatile Disk, a new multi-media format that is
superior to CD-ROM/Audio and videotape. Most DVD
players are compatible with CDs.
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Digital Video Disk. A new format for putting full length
movies on a 5" CD using MPEG-2 compression for
"better than VHS" quality.
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Digital Versatile Disc. The next generation of Compact
Disc (CD).
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Digital Versatile Disc. Second generation optical media,
introduced in the mid 1990s. A DVD contains up to 8.5
GB of data. Is mainly used for standard definition video
and data storage applications that require average
room. Most Blu-ray Disc products will be compatible
with DVDs.
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Abbreviation of digital video disc, storage unit of video
and audio data necessitating a laser for reading and
writing.
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A DVD or digital versatile disc, is the next generation of
optical disc storage technology. It's essentially a
bigger, faster CD that can hold cinema-like video,
better-than-CD audio, and computer data.
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Digital Versatile Disc. (Digital Video Disc at one time.)
High density optical storage discs. DVD discs are used
to distribute movies using MPEG-2 digital video and
either Dolby Digital (AC-3) or MPEG-2 (Philips
MUSICAM) digital audio.
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an electronic data storage medium that uses optical
technology for storing and playing back audio, video,
text, and other information in digital form, but with far
greater capacity than CDs.
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The Digital Versatile Disk is identical in physical size to
the compact disk but capable of storing 4.7 gigabytes
of data - an amount adequate for storing movie-length
video encoded with MPEG-2.
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DVD is a high capacity (4.7GB) CD-size disc for video,
multimedia, games and audio applications. It holds
about 7 times more information than a regular CD
(650MB).
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videodisk: a digital recording (as of a movie) on an
optical disk that can be played on a computer or a
television set
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DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be
used for storing data, including movies with high video
and sound quality. DVDs resemble compact discs: their
physical dimensions are the same12cm or the mini
8cmbut they are encoded in a different format and at
a much higher density. Unlike CDs, all DVDs must
contain a file system. This file system is called UDF,
and is an extension of the ISO 9660 Standard used for
Data-CDs.