DVD = Digital Versatile Disc

[SiliconJon]

Just a quick trivial rant.

What bonehead company started the trend of claiming DVD stands for Digital Video Disc!? Was it you Sony?!??! Whoever you were, you SUCK. It's like calling a CD a Computer Disc or Compact Data.

Someone please slap whoever is responsible for this, or direct me to them so that I may slap them around a little. Technology has enough acronyms as it is. We don't need companies screwing up what they stand for and making their own acronyms...

DVD = Digital Versatile Disc

All those goodies that bring up menus and play games in a computer are not video...

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[Droppyale]

not that it really matters.... but nice to know.

[MDS]

better read here

"All of the following have been proposed as the words behind the letters DVD.

Delayed, very delayed (referring to the many late releases of DVD formats)
Diversified, very diversified (referring to the proliferation of recordable formats and other spinoffs)
Digital venereal disease (referring to piracy and copying of DVDs)
Dead, very dead (from naysayers who predicted DVD would never take off)
Digital video disc (the original meaning proposed by some of DVD's creators)
Digital versatile disc (a meaning later proposed by some of DVD's creators)
Nothing
And the official answer is? "Nothing." The original acronym came from "digital video disc." Some members of the DVD Forum (see 6.1) tried to express that DVD goes far beyond video by retrofitting the painfully contorted phrase "digital versatile disc," but this has never been officially accepted by the DVD Forum as a whole. The DVD Forum decreed in 1999 that DVD, as an international standard, is simply three letters. After all, how many people ask what VHS stands for? (Guess what, no one agrees on that one either.)"