2007-03-08 19:25:05 · 10 answers · asked by dicvoverz 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Digital Video Disc
2007-03-08 19:27:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The most authoritave source is the DVD Forum (formerly known as the DVD Consortium), the organization that defined the DVD standards in 1995.
According to their FAQ, it means "Digital versatile disc."
Some will claim that the DVD Forum officially changed the name of the format to simply "DVD" and that it is no longer officially an acronym. This claim is attributed to a single person and is completely unsubstantiated. And, in fact, the name "digital versatile disc" is still part of the DVD standard.
(Note: "digital video disc" is clearly the wrong answer, as DVD are used for far more than video.)
2007-03-08 19:44:12 · answer #2 · answered by greymatter 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of the following have been proposed as the words behind the letters DVD.
Delayed, very delayed (referring to the many late releases of DVD formats)
Diversified, very diversified (referring to the proliferation of recordable formats and other spinoffs)
Digital venereal disease (referring to piracy and copying of DVDs)
Dead, very dead (from naysayers who predicted DVD would never take off)
Digital video disc (the original meaning proposed by some of DVD's creators)
Digital versatile disc (a meaning later proposed by some of DVD's creators)
Nothing
And the official answer is? "Nothing." The original acronym came from "digital video disc." Some members of the DVD Forum (see 6.1) tried to express that DVD goes far beyond video by retrofitting the painfully contorted phrase "digital versatile disc," but this has never been officially accepted by the DVD Forum as a whole. The DVD Forum decreed in 1999 that DVD, as an international standard, is simply three letters. After all, how many people ask what VHS stands for? (Guess what, no one agrees on that one either.)
2007-03-08 19:37:10 · answer #3 · answered by al t 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Digital Versatile Disk is the generic term
DVD-Video or DVD-5/DVD-10 are film releases
2007-03-08 19:30:02 · answer #4 · answered by wigginsray 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Digital Video Disc
2007-03-08 19:28:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Digital Video Disc
2007-03-08 19:28:10 · answer #6 · answered by Gumby Speed Racer 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Digital Video Disk, or Digital Versatile Disk
2007-03-08 19:54:49 · answer #7 · answered by reenalalit 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Digital Vedeo Disk
There are so many data compressing technologies available.
But Digital Vedeo is one method of compressed data.
2007-03-08 19:33:48 · answer #8 · answered by Imthath 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It mean round flat thing put files and movies on!
2007-03-08 19:30:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
digital video or versatile disc
DVDA - Double Vagina Double Anal
2007-03-08 19:28:38 · answer #10 · answered by ♫♂ РҰЯӨζξ ♂♫ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋