DVD

Digital video disc.www.bu.edu/webcentral/learning/av/glossary.html

"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.www.wgcu.org/watch/hdtv_glossaryofterms.html

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. ...www.hometheatermag.com/glossary/

Digital Versatile Disc. An optic disc with the same physical size as a CD but with significantly greater storage capacity.www.axis.com.cn/corporate/corp/glossary_general.htm

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.www.idvd.ca/dvd-definitions-glossary.htm

Digital Versatile Disk. A compact-disc format with much higher capacity than traditional CD-ROM.www.micro2000uk.co.uk/hardware_glossary.htm

(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.www.ukorbit.com/computer-glossary.htm

(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.encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/DVD

Digital Versatile Disk, formerly Digital Video Disc. An optical storage medium with improved capacity and bandwidth compared with the Compact Disc.-FOLDOC.education.qld.gov.au/curriculum/learning/literate-futures/glossary.html

Digital Versatile Discwww.veritysystems.com/glossary.htm

A DVD disc looks much like a CD-ROM or audio disc, but uses higher density storage methods to significantly increase storage capacity.www.geniusdv.com/final_cut_pro_courseware/finalcutpro_glossary.php

Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc. A sort of Usuper" CD, with enhanced storage capacity. EBCDICtechref.massmind.org/techref/glossary.htm

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.www.obsidianfields.com/glossary.html

Digital Video Disc (officially called Digital Versatile Disc) is the best way to view a wedding video. This4evergroup.org.concentric.com/misc%20page%20files/Wedding_Video_Terms

[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).www.library.arizona.edu/users/brewerm/sil/tech/vgloss.html

Digital Versatile Disk, a new multi-media format that is superior to CD-ROM/Audio and videotape. Most DVD players are compatible with CDs.www.esls.lib.wi.us/glossary.html

Digital Video Disk. A new format for putting full length movies on a 5" CD using MPEG-2 compression for "better than VHS" quality.www.psps.com/pages_frames/tech_talk/film_and_video_terms.htm

Digital Versatile Disc. The next generation of Compact Disc (CD).www.daisy.org/publications/guidelines/sg-daisy3/glossary.htm

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.www.blu-raydisc.com/Section-13634/Index.html

Abbreviation of digital video disc, storage unit of video and audio data necessitating a laser for reading and writing.www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Glossary.htm

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.www.tufts.edu/orgs/edmedia/gloss.shtml

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.www.jmcgowan.com/avigloss.html

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.www.worldwidelearn.com/elearning-essentials/elearning-glossary.htm

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.etvcookbook.org/glossary/

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).www.gocyberlink.com/english/cs/support/new_site/glossary.jsp

videodisk: a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

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 same—12cm or the mini 8cm—but 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.