Subj : DVD
To   : Digital Man
From : Finnigann
Date : Thu Apr 07 2005 02:32 am

-=> With interpidation and the MAGIC of QWK Mail Digital Man wrote to Deuce <=-

 DM>   Re: Re: about to blow a gaske
 DM>   By: Deuce to Digital Man on Wed Apr 06 2005 08:19 am

 >   Re: Re: about to blow a gaske
 >   By: Digital Man to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Apr 05 2005 23:47:00
 >
 >  >  >  AM> Agreed.  A more dismal implementation of video recording has yet
 >  >  >  AM> appear before me.  I know the "V" in DVD does NOT stand for "Vide
 >  >  >  AM> but boy, DVD's are as fragile as Florentine glass.
 >  >  >
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Digital Versatile Disk, right?
 >  >
 >  > Yeah, but disc is spelled with a 'c'. :-)
 >
 > Got a source for that?

 DM> Here's one: http://www.dvdforum.org/about-faq.htm
                              

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd


"DVD" was originally an initialism for "digital video disc"; some
members of the DVD Forum believe that it should stand for "digital
versatile disc", to indicate its potential for non-video applications.
Toshiba, which maintains the official DVD Forum site, adheres to the
interpretation of "digital versatile disc." The DVD Forum never reached
a consensus on the matter, however, and so today the official name of
the format is simply "DVD"; the letters do not "officially" stand for
anything.[1]



http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#1.1

[1.1.1] What do the letters DVD stand for?

All of the following have been proposed as the words behind the letters DVD.
Delayed, very delayed (referring to the many late releases of DVD formats)
Diversified, very diversified (referring to the proliferation of recordable
formats and other spinoffs)
Digital venereal disease (referring to piracy and copying of DVDs)
Dead, very dead (from naysayers who predicted DVD would never take off)
Digital video disc (the original meaning proposed by some of DVD's creators)
Digital versatile disc (a meaning later proposed by some of DVD's creators)
Nothing



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