Sentence examples for DVD from inspiring English sources

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DVD

noun

Initialism for digital video disc or digital versatile disc; an optical disc on which video media is recorded in digital format, such as commercially-released movies and other video programs.

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Then she chuckles: "I'm going to personally put a DVD under the door of every man in Hollywood, and try to get some votes for that baby".

Hollywood studios have also been suffering from the huge decline in the once-lucrative DVD sales market, which is down 40% from its historic peak.

After two days of house music and talking to Russians about 'rave techno house trance very tasty vodka', even a German heavy metal DVD played on a TV with a 12-inch screen sounded like angels sighing.

He did not watch it on TV, seeing it the way the world saw it only when he came to record his director's commentary for the DVD.

The number of TV and DVD rental outlets has dropped 98% over the past decade as the weekend ritual of renting a film is replaced by streaming services from businesses such as Netflix, which pipes movies and TV shows direct to TVs and tablets.

You probably don't even want a pirated DVD.

It's worth underlining that this isn't because films were released late or in limited runs – voters get sent the films on DVD.

Founded in 1985, Blockbuster grew by leaps and bounds in its first decade, but was hit badly by the evolution of online technology and new DVD distribution channels, such as low-cost rental kiosks in US shopping malls.

The widely recommended DVD we ordered turned out to be a creepy pseudo-Scientologist parade of weird adults and unhappy-looking children, and we ritually destroyed it the second it was over.

When he wanted to make a recording of his 90s Comedian show in 2006 – which both the Times and Chortle, the comedy-business website, would subsequently declare the best standup DVD of the decade – Lee was told by his then agent that he couldn't even give the filming rights away.

Meanwhile, a promotional image that originally featured a sign reading "Lesbians & gays support the miners" appears to have digitally removed the banner on the back cover of the DVD.

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