Thread: What does DVD stand for?
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Old 8th-April-2006, 01:48 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Re: Blackpool 2006 Dvd
Wikipedia is wrong this time. DVD was a technology produced by Pioneer and other companies at the beginning of the 1990s.... to quote Pioneer ...

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Pioneer Corporation is a global leader in electronics and audio/video products for the home, car, commerce and industry, particularly in the two core multimedia technologies - Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) and plasma display panels (PDP)
Wikipedia also only lists the "versatile" definition as a link to the DVD article under its optical disc section which belies the wording of the actual DVD article.

And as someone who was interested in the technology at the time it was first released I know there was initially no such "video" definition and I have still yet to see one on any hardware or on any actual discs.

The clincher is the DVD Forum - the official DVD site - which wikipedia says "never reached a consensus on the matter", it has THIS on its fact page here.

Quote:
What does DVD mean?

The keyword is "versatile." Digital Versatile discs provide superb video, audio and data storage and access -- all on one disc
hmm
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