Sentence examples for versatile disk from inspiring English sources
12. Play it, Sam: "DVD stands for 'digital videodisc.' " Buncha surly nit-pickers insist it means "digital versatile disk".
Its backers include Toshiba, Pioneer and Time Warner's music unit; they now say DVD stands for digital versatile disk.
In digital versatile disk technology (Forbes, June 16), destined to become standard for PCs as well as for home entertainment, Japanese firms virtually own the market already.
Industry observers predict additions could include the wireless capability in the new iBook, called AirPort; faster processors; a DVD (digital versatile disk) player; and FireWire.
With some 60,000 titles available, the market for VideoCDs dwarfs the emerging DVD (digital versatile disk) format and rivals North America's VHS tapes.
The iVDR (Information Versatile Disk for Removable usage) standard for portable HDD carts was established in 2002 by eight top Japanese electronics companies, but it never caught on.
Digital versatile disks (DVDs), which came onto the market in 1996, rely on red aluminum indium gallium phosphide (AlInGaP) semiconductor lasers and have a data capacity of about 4.7 gigabytes (Gbytes), compared to 0.65 Gbytes for compact disks.
These materials are in fact commonly used as the data layer in rewritable compact disks and digital versatile disks (CD-RW and DVD-RW) where the change in optical properties is exploited to store data.
Here, we propose a versatile data format for serialization, disk-based storage and exchange of high-content screening data and processing results.
The individual filament developed from the deep basal disk holds a dorsifixed versatile anther.
