Sentence examples for versatile disc from inspiring English sources
Since its introduction in 1997, the DVD, or digital versatile disc, so named for its multiple uses, has become the fastest-selling consumer electronics product ever.
Optical storage devices CD-ROM (compact devices CD-ROMy memory) and DVD-ROM (digital videodiscompactersatile disc)—appeared in the mid-1980s and '90s.
The standard it finally settled on, called the digital versatile disc, caught on quickly: more than 14 million DVD players were sold in the first three years after the format was introduced.
The days of the digital versatile disc may well be coming to an end, at least in its established form as a factory pressed, attractively packaged object of mass consumption.
The truly momentous phenomenon in the film industry is not a pre-pubescent wizard but a humble circular piece of plastic: the digital versatile disc (DVD .Next year, for the first time, sales of movies in DVD format are forecast to outsell those on video cassette in America (see chart), reaching a total of $9.5 billion, according to Morgan Stanley, an investment bank.
It also has a growing business replicating digital versatile discs, or DVD's.
At issue was the distribution of a code-breaking computer program that can be used to copy movies from digital versatile discs, or DVD's.
DVDs (digital video, or versatile, discs), developed for recording movies, store data more densely than does CD-ROM, with more powerful error correction.
District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York issued a temporary injunction late last week forbidding the Web sites from carrying the DeCSS program, which would allow users to bypass the encryption used on digital versatile discs to prevent unauthorized copying.
DVDs (digital video, or versatile, discs) work similarly, but they use a shorter-wavelength red laser to read smaller spots, so the discs can hold enough information to play a digitized motion picture.
