home video

noun

plural home videos

1

: a homemade video (see video entry 1 sense 1) that is not usually intended for commercial release or distribution

We showed our friends home videos of our vacation in the Caribbean.

People are consuming millions of hours of shaky, selfie-quality home video on their phones every day.

—Karen Bussone

… make a home video, using a cell phone or camera, of yourself performing your selection.

—The Brunswick Beacon (Shallotte, North Carolina)

2

: prerecorded video (see video entry 1 sense 1a) marketed for home viewing

The popular TV series … returns to home video with the DVD and Blu-ray releases of … Season Three.

—Mike Spring

It's not clear when other [streaming] platforms will add season four, but it usually takes several months for new seasons to receive a home video release …

—Business Insider US

Examples of home video in a Sentence

the latest releases in home video

We watched a home video of their wedding.

Recent Examples on the Web

Most of the live footage has appeared before, on the posthumous Live in New York City album and home video in the Eighties. —David Browne, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2025

Since long before the rise of home video, in the nineteen-eighties, most people have seen many more films at home than in a movie theatre. —Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025

The heartfelt track opens with a home video audio snippet of Uchis’ mother wishing her a good morning as the Colombian crooner serenades someone close to her in her life. —Chris Malone Mendez, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025

This isn't the first time a home video camera has captured wildlife antics. —Alice Gibbs, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined at sense 2