Poll: What does DVD stand for?

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
From Wikipedia:

"However, the DVD Forum never reached a consensus on the matter, and so today the official name of the format is simply "DVD"; the letters do not officially stand for anything."

Yep.
I was watching Beauty and the Geek with my GF, and this was one of the questions... but the question-asker dude said they would have taken either Video or Versatile. I yelled at the TV that both were wrong

 

[Dualist]

Digital Video Disc, that's what I'm thinking right now.

 

[chr6]

there is no spoon.

 

[Steve]

For me, DVD will always stand for "Die, Vietcong, Die!"

 

[Tylanner]

Double Video Double

 

[Hammerhead]

It's a pro wrestling move. Death Valley Driver.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Poll: What does DVD stand for?

Digital Versatile Disc

 

[gsellis]

Sigh...

From the DVD Demystified FAQ (linked in my other post)

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.)

 

[JDrake]

I never even knew it stood for something :Q
Are you gonna tell me 'CD' is an abbreviation, too?? :Q

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: Nick5324

Originally posted by: dullard
Both. Was video, switched to versatile.

Winner.

Yeah... you can't exactly call PC games on DVD videos... maybe DVGD's... :-x

 

[Toasthead]

TECHNICALLY its Digital Versatile Disc...but everyone thinks its digital video disc

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: Toasthead
TECHNICALLY its Digital Versatile Disc...but everyone thinks its digital video disc

Have you read any of the thread? Technically, it doesn't stand for anything.

 

[sharkeeper]

Diverse Vagina Deficit

Cheers!

 

[enyce2k9]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
From Wikipedia:

"However, the DVD Forum never reached a consensus on the matter, and so today the official name of the format is simply "DVD"; the letters do not officially stand for anything."

woohoo! and i was messn around wen i voted for nothing!