单词 | home video |
释义 | home videon. 1. U.S. a. Pictures displayed on a television screen at home; television footage. Now disused. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun] > television picture or image television image1909 frame1915 television picture1926 TV picture1947 home video1948 TV image1948 1948 N.Y. Times 15 Apr. 27/5 The large size of the images..virtually eliminated any sense of eye fatigue frequently associated with home video. 1953 Portsmouth (Ohio) Times 20 Oct. 5/1 (heading) This idea may bring you your own home video... Maybe in about five years you go out and buy a film strip with both video and audio reproduction of LaRosa's singing something or other. 1958 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 18 Aug. 13/2 (heading) No home video or radio. There will be no home television or radio [for the boxing match]. b. A television set; (as a mass noun) the use of television sets; television. Now disused. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television set television set1924 television1929 home video1949 TV1949 box1950 transistor set1953 telly1954 idiot box1955 monitor1957 boob tube1959 goggle-box1959 transportable1959 the tube1959 portable1960 set1961 widescreen1982 1949 Chicago Tribune 20 Dec. i. 23/2 That television is responsible for the feminine influx [at wrestling events] is evidenced at the box office where the ladies..demand tickets approximating the view they get on their home videos. 1950 Tipton (Indiana) Daily Tribune 10 Aug. 3/5 With home video sweeping the nation,..the furniture manufacturers and designers have concentrated on furniture designs which lend themselves to comfortable and pleasant television viewing. 1966 Independent Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 3 Apr. (Scene section) 6/2 These machines are in fact glorified television sets. Glorified only because they do not present the sick programming and even more disturbing sales pitches encumbering the home video. 2. A video recorder designed for use in the home; a VCR. Now disused. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > video recorder or player VTR1954 videotape recorder1956 video1958 vid1961 videogram1963 teleplayer1968 home video1970 VCR1971 U-Matic1972 video recorder1978 VHD1980 VHS1982 S-VHS1987 1970 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 29 Mar. (Tele Vues section) 9/1 (heading) Test home video ‘like phonograph’... The Electronic Video Recording (ERV) device is as easy to operate as a telephone. 1979 Television & Home Video Mar. 7/2 There's not a lot of point in owning a home video and using it to record the rubbish you might otherwise have missed. 1982 New Scientist 8 July 95/2 Inmos says that its fastest chip is aimed at the makers of home videos and personal computers. 3. As a mass noun: the production or use of video equipment or videos designed for use in the home; the market for these. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] vid1961 video1970 home video1971 homevid1977 Laservision1981 S-Video1987 1971 Washington Post 12 Dec. (Potomac section) 10/2 The effects of quadraphonics and home video on records. 1973 Billboard 6 Oct. 65/1 Home video will, undoubtedly..make a substantial contribution to our corporate plans. 1983 N.Y. Times 27 June 1 Only six years ago, the business that Hollywood calls ‘home video’..did not exist. 1995 J. C. Scholtz Video Acquisitions & Cataloging 29 In home video, like theatrical releases, sales timing is crucial. 2003 D. J. Cole et al. Encycl. Mod. Everyday Inventions 154 It seems clear that the future of home video is digital and on disc. 4. A videotape; a video recording, film, etc., intended for home viewing; spec. one produced at home or without professional assistance; = home movie n.Originally referring to recordings made on videotape and designed for use with home video equipment. Now also applied to recordings made on digital formats. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > videotape or videodisc videotape1953 videodisc1964 video1970 record1976 home video1981 1981 Times 17 Sept. 10/6 A one-hour home video for aspiring cricketers. 1983 Listener 21 Apr. 29/2 The ladies who feature with her on her home-video were such that ‘a man would be lucky to get out of them alive’ (hysterical laughter). 1991 Financial Post (Canada) (Nexis) 4 Sept. 39 Kofman says he never goes to movies... He prefers to rent home videos. 2005 Metro 25 Feb. (London ed.) 34/3 The surreal effect, compounded by a saturated use of colour and sunlight, gives the DVD the bleached quality of a home video. 2007 S. Gibbons Acad. Libr. & Net Gen Student v. 66 YouTube has proved to be immensely popular as a host for home videos, amateur films, taped performances, and recordings of outrageous stunts, pranks, and escapades. Compounds General attributive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [adjective] videographic1949 video1952 home video1970 Laservision1981 1970 Billboard 26 Sept. c13/1 A TV special revolving around Glen Campbell going to Moscow could be duplicated into the home video market. 1977 Washington Post 20 Feb. k6 The home-video idea..is making one of its periodic bids for attention. 1982 N.Y. Times 30 Mar. c12 Hollywood is worried these days about..the unknown impact of new home-video technologies. 1992 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 22 July d2/2 Home video distributors are betting that pricing selected video releases at $24.95 will boost sales by six or seven times. 2003 J. Wasko How Hollywood Works iii. 141 It was a minor coup when Fox TV arranged for the television premier of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, immediately after it appeared in home video formats. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1948 |
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