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[-] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago

DVD

I know Dick predates the media format by several decades, but seeing these initials was jarring. My brain kept insisting this sentence was trying to say something about an interview with Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen on Digital Video Disc...

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

Fun fact: though Video has become accepted, DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc.

[-] pumpkin_spice@lemmy.today 11 points 2 months ago

Fun Fact: DVD originally was called Digital Video Disc and was changed shortly after because it began being used for other non-video purposes.

Source: I was there when DVD was first introduced to the market.

2nd source: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php?id=29

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

I looked into it further because I definitely remember them being introduced as Versatile; the name change happened in 1995 about a year and a half before the first DVDs were produced.

[-] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Well, today I learned!

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