For DVD we have terms and definitions in 13 topics. The topics are Anime, Camcorder, DTV, DVD Authoring, DVD and CD, Home Theater, Import Cars, Music Industry, Photography, SEO Acronyms, Storage Media, Technical Acronyms and Technology.

DVD (Anime)

Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc (the industry can't seem to make up it's mind). A CD sized disc, with enough space to store a full length movie in a digital format (about 133 minutes of MPEG-2 encoded video, if you're interested, and more can be stuffed into a dual-layer disc). More and more Anime is being released on DVDs (and this is a good thing), and it can now be considered to be the dominant format for US-released anime, surpassing VHS in popularity. Note that DVDs provide for multiple audio tracks and subtitles that can be turned off, meaning that most US anime DVDs include both the subtitled and dubbed version.

DVD (Camcorder)

Abbreviation of digital video disc, storage unit of video and audio data necessitating a laser for reading and writing.

DVD (DTV)

"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.

DVD (DVD Authoring)

Originally an acronym for Digital Versatile Disc (or Digital Video Disc). A family of optical disc formats used both for prerecorded content, especially movies, and as recordable media for consumer devices and computers (that is, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM). A family of data format standards for video, audio, and data storage (that is, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio) for consumer electronics products and computers. DVD discs are the same diameter as CD discs (120mm. or 12 cm, in diameter), and most formats hold 4.7GB (actually billion bytes) of data on a side. A smaller size mini-DVD disc is also used, especially in camcorders.

DVD (DVD and CD)

An acronym that officially stands for nothing, but is often expanded as Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc. The audio/video/data storage system based on 12- and 8-cm optical discs.

DVD (Home Theater)

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. An audio-only version, DVD-A uses MLP to encode six channels of 24-bit/96-kHz audio.

DVD (Import Cars)

An acronym for Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disk; a new type of CD-ROM that holds a minimum of 4.7 GB, enough for a full-length movie.

DVD (Music Industry)

Digital Versatile Disc. An optical storage disc that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. Similar to a CD, only for audio and visual components.

DVD (Photography)

" Digital Video Disk " An optical storage medium that can store up to 4.7 Gigabytes ( single layer ), 8.5 GB (double layer ), 9.4 GB (double sided, single layer ), or 17 GB (double sided, double layer ). Transfer rates and seek times are similar to those of CD-ROM for currently available drives. The DVD spec included higher level specs for audio and video capabilities.

DVD (SEO Acronyms)

Digital Versatile Disk

DVD (Storage Media)

Digital video disk.

DVD (Technical Acronyms)

Short for digital versatile disc or digital video disc, a new type of CD-ROM that holds a minimum of 4.7GB (gigabytes), enough for a full-length movie.

DVD (Technology)

[abbreviation for "Digital Video (or Verastile) Disc"] An improved CD-ROM-like technology that can fit between 4.7GB to 17GB of multimedia data on a single disc. DVD is "backwards compatible" with CD-ROMs so you can play your old audio CDs and CD-ROMs on DVD drives. The latest version of DVD, called DVD-2 (or DVDII), can also read CD-R (Recordable) and CD-RW (Re-Writable) discs.

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