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📀 DVD
Also known as: DVD-ROM, DVD Video
Unicode: U+1F4C0
Description
A digital versatile disc (DVD), a type of optical disc used to play movies before the rise of streaming technology. Generally depicted in gold, though Facebook’s is bluish gray, as a Blu-ray. Commonly used to represent CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and related film and music content, especially albums. Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and Softbank’s designs were once labelled DVD, as to distinguish it from 💿 Optical Disk. See also 💿 Optical Disc and 💽 Computer Disk.
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
blu-raycomputerdiskdvdoptical
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :dvd: | |
| GitHub | :dvd: | |
| Slack | :dvd: | |
| Discord | :dvd: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Office symbols
Definition:
Stands for Digital Video Disc (or Digital Versatile Disc); a type of optical media used for movie distribution (DVD Video) or storing files http://emojipedia.org/dvd/
Adjectives:
- Of or relating to or involving light or optics
- Of, or relating to visible light
Nouns:
- Optical disc used to store digital data
- An optical disc used to store audio or other data.
- Compact disc is a digital optical disc data storage format.
- A digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser
- An optical storage medium for digital data.
- Compact disc; a form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from a plastic disc in a reader device.
- A flat, round, optical medium that can store up to 700 megabytes of digital data or 80 minutes of audio. Data stored is read using a laser.
- Optical disc used to store data.
- An optical disc used to record video images on special equipment
- DVD is a digital optical disc storage format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995.
- Optical disc
- Videodisc is a general term for a laser-or stylus-readable random-access disc that contains both audio and analog video signals recorded in an analog form.