Sentence examples for videodisk from inspiring English sources

In 1967 Ampex developed a special videodisk machine that made it possible to locate and replay a desired action in less than four seconds.

Videodisc, also spelled videodisk, rigid circular plate of either metal or plastic used to record video and audio signals for playback.

In a fascinating British site, Phonovision (www.dfm.dircon.co.uk /tv1strx.htm), Donald F. McLean gives the history of John Logie Baird, who invented the first crude videodisk in the 1920's.

The next-generation PlayStation 3, which is scheduled for sale in November, will be driven by the new Cell microprocessor and will also include a Blu-ray digital-videodisk player, a high-definition technology that either will or will not become the next industry standard, replacing the current DVD format.

It may include sound records or tapes, slides, films, videotapes or videodisks, teaching machines, computers, and the use of telephone, radio (including a two-way radio with each student using a transceiver, as in the Australian outback), and television.

Modern storage media include magnetic tapes and disks, magnetic bubble memories, optical data storage read by lasers, videodisks, and electron beam-addressable memory systems.

The videodisks appeared three days after the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon were hit.

One was a DVD entitled "The Century's Great Catastrophe"; the other two were videodisks — "Surprise Attack on America" and "America's Disaster: The Pearl Harbor of the Twenty-first Century".

The Motion Picture Association of America, the industry's trade group, had banned the distribution of so-called screener videodisks and tapes to voters, but protests from filmmakers, producers and independent production companies prompted it to relent to the extent of permitting the shipment of encoded videocassettes.