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DIGITAL VERSATILE DISC

Specialty Definition: DIGITAL VERSATILE DISC

Domain	Definition
Computing	Digital Versatile Disc (DVD, formerly "Digital Video Disc") An optical storage medium with improved capacity and bandwidth compared with the Compact Disc. DVD, like CD, was initally marketed for entertainment and later for computer users. [When was it first available?] A DVD can hold a full-length film with up to 133 minutes of high quality video, in MPEG-2 format, and audio. The first DVD drives for computers were read-only drives ("DVD-ROM"). These provide over seven times the storage capacity of CD-ROM (4.7 GBytes). DVD-ROM drives read existing CD-ROMs and music CDs and are compatible with installed sound and video boards. Additionally, the DVD-ROM drive can read DVD films using an advanced (MPEG-2) video board, required to decode the high resolution video format. The first drives, using a single-layer disc of 4.7GB, were expected to be available during the second half of 1996 from Toshiba, Philips, Sony, Hitachi and others. In 1997, dual-layer discs were expected to increase the disc capacity to 8.5 GB. Double-sided, dual-layer discs will eventually increase the capacity to 17 GB. Write-once DVD-R ("recordable") drives record a 3.9GB DVD-R disc that can be read on a DVD-ROM drive. The first DVD-R drive was expected by mid 1997. By the end of 1997, the rewritable DVD-RAM (by false analogy with random access memory) drive was expected to become available. DVD-RAM drives read and write to a 2.6 GB DVD-RAM disc, read and write-once to a 3.9GB DVD-R disc, and read a 4.7 GB or 8.5 GB DVD-ROM. Also, it was expected that a DVD-RAM disc would be readable on both the DVD-R and DVD-ROM drives. Background (http://www.tacmar.com/dvd_background.htm). RCA home (http://www.imagematrix.com/DVD/home.html). (http://www.zdnet.com/products/special/current/dvd.html). (http://www.zdnet.com/products/special/current/dvdsum.html). [Did this happen as predicted? Current state?] (1999-07-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Crosswords: DIGITAL VERSATILE DISC

Specialty definitions using "DIGITAL VERSATILE DISC": Digital Video Disc, DVD, DVDR, DVD-R, DVDROM, DVD-ROM. (references)

Non-Fiction Usage: DIGITAL VERSATILE DISC

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	France	Innovative digital products and technologies such as the Internet, DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) and GPS (Global Positioning System) will continue to represent valuable market opportunities. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DIGITAL VERSATILE DISC

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
digital versatile disc	12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: DIGITAL VERSATILE DISC

Language		Translations for "DIGITAL VERSATILE DISC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		digital video-disk (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM), digital versatile disc (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM). (various references)

Dutch		dvd-schijf (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM), dvd-ROM (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM), dvd (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM). (various references)

Finnish		DVD-levyke (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM). (various references)

German		DVD (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM), digitale Videodisc (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM). (various references)

Greek		DVD-ROM (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM), ψηφιακός βιντεοδίσκος (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM), ψηφιακός ευέλικτος δίσκος (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM). (various references)

Pig Latin		igitalday ersatilevay iscday

Spanish		DVD-ROM (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM), disco vídeo digital (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM). (various references)

Swedish		DVD (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM), digitalt optiskt lagringsmedia (digital versatile disk, digital video disc, digital video disk, DVD-ROM). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern

5. Bibliography

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