What does DVD Stand for?

[Dan]

Then why wasn't I able to back up data with one? The PC recognizes the drive as a DVD/CD burner, but it wouldn't let me burn it. I have a vast amount of info I need to back up.

How are you trying to burn? I just burned some .xls files onto a DVD recently. I select to burn a Data DVD and burn or create an ISO image, then burn.

[Kabuchan]

I'm doing it as if I were saving photos on a CD. I see my mistake, just don't know how else to do it. I am going to try one other thing before I burn DVDs. Thanks Dan!

[Dan]

I'm doing it as if I were saving photos on a CD. I see my mistake, just don't know how else to do it. I am going to try one other thing before I burn DVDs. Thanks Dan!

Sorry I didn't go into detail earlier but I was in a rush. I figured it was just the method you were trying to use for burning. I hope that other thing you tried worked for you!

[lostinlodos2]

The original was Digital Video Disc (Circa 1998 DVEx)
Then it became Digital Versatile Disc (Circa 1999 E3)
Then it was Digital-video-disc Versatile Disc (circa 2001 CES)
and in 2002, DVD. Just the old letters, no names, or anything.

Hope that helps.

[nwg]

The original was Digital Video Disc (Circa 1998 DVEx)
Then it became Digital Versatile Disc (Circa 1999 E3)
Then it was Digital-video-disc Versatile Disc (circa 2001 CES)
and in 2002, DVD. Just the old letters, no names, or anything.

Hope that helps.

The DVD forums actually said the acronym DVD was Digital Video Disc at the start. Then, became Digital Versatile Disc when other things from video were put on it (DVD ROM etc) way before 2001. Now it is just called DVD. That's it.

It was no way DVDVD. That sounds ridicilous.

[mill]

http://www.fox.co.uk/thesimpsons/dvdqa/simp_dvdqa.html

and also

http://web.archive.org/web/20040404093022re_/lonestar.texas.net/~bdub/earl/dvd.htm

[TNT]

I'm sorry, but just because you come up with new uses for something doesn't give you the right to change the name. It's still Video in my book. I knew about the versatile thing before this thread, but honestly, doesn't versatile sound a bit forced? It's the same thing with Boston Chicken. For those of you outside the states who don't know, Boston Chicken is a Chicken restaurant. Then they started selling other things like turkey and meat loaf and changed their name to Boston Market. I'm sorry, it's just one of my pet peeves. I still refuse to call it Boston Market to this day.

[LT. Columbo]

i agree 100%. excellent post. i also knew about "versatile". always be video to me.

[photo_angel2004]

I'm sorry, but just because you come up with new uses for something doesn't give you the right to change the name. It's still Video in my book. I knew about the versatile thing before this thread, but honestly, doesn't versatile sound a bit forced? It's the same thing with Boston Chicken. For those of you outside the states who don't know, Boston Chicken is a Chicken restaurant. Then they started selling other things like turkey and meat loaf and changed their name to Boston Market. I'm sorry, it's just one of my pet peeves. I still refuse to call it Boston Market to this day.

That is interesting Bosten Market has only been bosten market here in this state they must have started out somplace else where they were known as bosten chicken.

I just found out too that Aldi has been in buisness for over 30 years although not around here they started out in Germany. (Which explains why they have awesome chocolate bars) LOL

[nwg]

I'm sorry, but just because you come up with new uses for something doesn't give you the right to change the name..

The DVD forums have every right to change the name as they invented it. It cannot be just video anymore when you got DVD Audio now. It's versatile for a reason because video is no longer just on these discs. Even DVD Video now has extra things like DVD ROM content and jacket pictures.

If it is called Video then it will be DVD Video Disc Video.

[TNT]

Columbo, I'd give you greens if I had the power. . .

nwg, my point is that they originally intended it to be Video. Stick to your decisions and the consequences of your decisions is what I say. Besides, 99% of the population probably doesn't even know that it was changed or what it even stands for.

Another pet peeve of mine is when people come up with acronyms just so that it spells a word but in the process totally force awkward words into them. Versatile, while not an uncommon word, to me falls into this category. If you were going to name the disc without having to fit "DVD" then they probably would have come up with something else like Digital Multimedia Disc or something along those lines. nwg, nothing personal, just irritates the $H!T out of me.

[lostinlodos2]

The DVD forums actually said the acronym DVD was Digital Video Disc at the start. Then, became Digital Versatile Disc when other things from video were put on it (DVD ROM etc) way before 2001. Now it is just called DVD. That's it.

It was no way DVDVD. That sounds ridicilous.

oops, that came out wrong, and was mis-typed too... it was meant to have "()"
(D)igital-versatile (V)ideo (D)isk. Forgot the () and mis-read my program from the expo, all at the same time. sry.

And to think, we're still talking about the acronym of such a common item, that has been around, what, close to 15 years lol. I've still got a VCD player that uses the Versatile name, not Video. And that wasn't even a US format. Another one you could go after is the many names of the hybrid disks, like the JCD or the HDC/VCDH. As was stated by TNT, pick a name, stick with it. As if the public in America couldn't figure it out on their own. I remember when the first VCD was shown in japan, they called it "CD for video." How original, it just never stuck because they were going to try to market it in America and Americans like acronyms, hence VCD.

How about:
Disk for Audio and media (and video in Asia)
Disk for Video and media
Disk for HD video and media
and: Disk because Sony wants to own everything.

I'd like to just call it round shiny thing with stuff on it.
Have fun ripping me to shreds for that one.

[nwg]

I am only quoting what the inventors have said. How can they be wrong?

It hasn't been 15 years. It came out in Japan first in 1997 so just 9 years. I started in early 1999 about six months after it came out in the uk.

It is Disc not Disk. The only disks are Hard Disks and Floppy Disks.

I am out of this now, it is getting silly.

[photo_angel2004]

So in the beginning it was DVD for digital video disc, I am not losing my mind after all.

[lostinlodos]

I am only quoting what the inventors have said. How can they be wrong?

It hasn't been 15 years. It came out in Japan first in 1997 so just 9 years. I started in early 1999 about six months after it came out in the uk.

It is Disc not Disk. The only disks are Hard Disks and Floppy Disks.

I am out of this now, it is getting silly.

The first design of what later became the DVD was shown in 1990 in Tokyo at the Video and Electronic Design Expo. That's where I pull my "15 years" from. The competing format designs at the time, the working VCD, and theoretical DVD. VCD won out initially and is still an extremely popular format outside of USA and the UK. I regularly buy current movies on VCD from half the price of DVDs in about the same quality using XviD format encoding, (and yes, they are ligament releases bought in major stores).

As for disc(k), remember we don't all speak the same version of English. Cheque vs check or program vs programme anyone? Please don't flame about a letter difference. I could fill the entire page with minor differences used around the world in writing in Latin words. I do my best to keep this readable for the bulk of readers and sometimes I make cultural differences in my spellings. I apologize.

And the dates I used for the latter two renditions of the acronym were "First Public Announcement" notices in the media programme from the stated expos.


Oh, and if you don't follow foreign technology, HD DVD and Blu-Ray are NOT the first HD video disk format ether. They won out in the end, but there have been HD VCDs in 1080p format for almost 2 years. They tend to be 30 minute to 45 minute long documentaries, but it's still HD video on a disk. Remember again, people are watching the HD television signal on they're computers on high-quality monitors in much higher resolutions than the average American consumer is accustomed to, using a service known in Europe and Asia as IPTV. The move to putting the higher resolution video onto disk was just another step.

The point is, while we discuss the disks of the past, and the wonders of HD DVD and Blu Ray, they will probably neither be the winner of the HD Disk format. To be honest, it would be surprising if a variation of HVD (the 1680i format that is now standard across china and growing in the rest of asia) didn't win in the end. While the movie is takes up one full disk 8Mb or so, with the options/features on another, two standard DVDs are still far cheaper to manufacture, far cheaper for the consumer, and far better for the environment, with much less involved in every aspect of the manufacturing process. The only difference between the DVD and the HVD other than the player used is video encoding. The higher resolution is as clear as any new HD format that came out earlier this year, for a fraction of the cost all around.

Have a good one, I'll leave you alone now.
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