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How to pronounce dvd in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms videodisc, videodisk
Type of optical disc, optical disk

Examples of dvd

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Today Toshiba formally said it will bow out of the next-generation DVD business.
From the foxbusiness.com
One case covered Universal Studios'2002 DVD release of ET, the Extraterrestrial.
From the businessweek.com
The first volume of Season 1 of the animated series was released on DVD Tuesday.
From the suntimes.com
Not rated, the films sell separately, for $19.93 for DVD and $26.97 for Blu-ray.
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At that critical moment, Guggenheim couldn't get the DVD he had brought to work.
From the time.com
Simi would select the TV channel or DVD and set the table while I cooked supper.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Half of the children were then given an educational DVD to watch in their homes.
From the sciencedaily.com
BluRay is already similar to DVD and HD DVD of course sounded too much like DVD.
From the newscientist.com
I am a grown man and I just absolutely love the Bionicle DVD toy movies by Lego.
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • Videodisk: a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set
  • DVD, also known as Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc, is an optical disc storage media format, and was invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Time Warner in 1995. Its main uses are video and data storage. ...
  • The DVD is a Napalm Death DVD released by Earache in 2001. The only material seeing release for the first time is the Nottingham show from 1989 and the Killburn National show from 1989. The version of Utopia Banished currently in print features The DVD as a bonus disc.
  • An optical disc, typically one holding a commercially-recorded movie; Digital Versatile Disc, the use of which is deprecated in favor of (2); Digital Video Disc
  • (The DVDs) If they could have put this on half a DVD, it probably would have fit, but it's a one-disc release anyway, packed in a unique red single-width keepcase, which is sheathed in a translucent plastic slipcover that covers most of the case like a plain brown wrapper. ...
  • Digital Versatile Disc. Same physical size as a compact disc but has a capacity to hold a minimum of 4.7GB of data, 9.4GB if dual layer and/or dual sided. DVD-Video discs can hold about 4 hours of video on a dual layer disc depending upon the amount of compression applied. ...
  • Digital Video Disk: This new medium can store large amounts of data on one disk that looks like a CD, including full length films with high-quality sound and pictures.
  • Officially known as the Digital Video Disc, though marketers unofficially refer to it as the Digital Versatile Disc. DVD uses a 5-inch disc with anywhere from 4.5 Gb (single layer, single-sided) to 17 Gb storage capacity (double-layer, double sided). ...
  • Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc. A relatively new standard that seeks to combine better-than-laser-disc quality video with better-than-CD quality audio in a disc the size of a CD. Requires special players. ...