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minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoFun fact: though Video has become accepted, DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc.
minus-squarepumpkin_spice@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 days agoFun 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
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoI 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.
Fun fact: though Video has become accepted, DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc.
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
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.
Well, today I learned!