Re: Over the Rhine - Digital ? Disc (aka OtR DVD)

[Christian Lindemer <CD-Lindemer@wiu.edu>]

I've resisted all of this so far, but I just can't any longer.  =)

DVD was originally termed "Digital Video Disc" but the consortium that 
designed it then thought that the name might unnecessarily pigeonhole 
the medium to video-only tasks.  As such, they re-defined the acronym to 
be "versatile" as they wanted the discs to be.

Damian wrote:

> Brian Warren wrote:
> > I heard it meant "Digital Versatile Disc" because you can have more on
> > a DVD than video.
>
> It does stand for that, but I think it was only called "Versatile" because
> "Videodisc" was already a digital movie medium.  Shame the digital 12-inch
> never took on in the same way as LPs - there could have been some great
> gatefold sleeves!

Sure, we'd all love giant cover art for our movies, (as our music) but 
media that size are so much more awkward and fragile.  As it is now, I 
can take dozens of movies in a small, conveneient case.  I wouldn't have 
it any other way.

http://www.access-one.com/rjn/laser/legacy/ld96.html

Laserdisc may have been optical, but it was still a rather analog media. 
 It definitely blurred the line between analog and digital encoding, 
but falls short of what many would consider a true digital format.  The 
media was capable of storing a digital audio track, but all the other 
content was distinctly analog.

-Smitty the Pedant

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