Digital Versatile Disk (DVD)
Formerly Digital Video Disk, but now Digital Versatile Disk, it is essentially a larger capacity CD with a faster data transfer rate. This allows compressed moving video to be replayed, for example, a movie. The DVD can also be used for data storage.
Related terms
capacity
CD drive
CD-ROM
disk
insert (disk) (1)
storage
storage medium
data compression
digital video (DV)
video clip
Term sub categories
Hardware
storage
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