DVD

noun

Definition of DVDnext
as in video

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Recent Examples of DVD Four featurettes are included with the DVD-digital bundle, all featuring interviews with cast and crew. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 23 June 2026 When Universal Pictures released it on DVD in 2006, Miami Vice became one of the best-selling discs of all time, thanks in part to the inclusion of Mann's Director's Cut. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026 The movie has been released on DVD and Blu-ray. — Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 31 May 2026 In 1997, barely one year after the video disc was launched, all of the Motion Picture Association of America member studios joined the DVD Forum, collectively adopted the new format and started to phase out films released on videotape. — Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Fortune, 25 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for DVD
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  1. video
  2. tape
  3. videotape
Noun
  • Witness accounts describe chaotic scene In the video, as many as five officers can be seen, and shrieks, screams, and cries are heard.
    — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Surveillance video of the incident shows the white vehicle involved in the collision sideswiping a car in the opposite lane, then careening toward the crosswalk that moments earlier a pedestrian had entered with a dog.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of video
Noun
  • This is different from regular tape in that the adhesive is formulated to be kinder to sensitive skin.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The antenna's shape is also reinforced with flexible fiberglass tape springs and a lightweight structure.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of tape
Noun
  • Its frame story involves a crime-busting couple who, while searching for a missing coed, must view a variety of videotapes.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
  • The previous game’s all-star cast returned, but now Mark Hamill, Tom Wilson, Malcolm McDowell, and the rest were performing not on videotape in front of digital backgrounds but on 35mm film stock and enormous real sets—lots of enormous real sets.
    — Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
Definition of videotape

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“DVD.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/DVD. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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