homevidn.
/ˈhəʊmvɪd/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌvɪd/ colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
Home video, as a medium; = home video n. 3, 4.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun]
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S-Video1987
1977 Billboard 19 Feb. 6/2 (heading) Pricing, home vid enliven RCA.
1987 Financial Times 18 July i. 6/1 Most people are going to wade through the morass of business information about pix, tv, feevee, legit, niteries, homevid.
1995 Washington Times (Nexis) 2 Nov. m22 Goodtimes will be releasing episodes from several popular syndicated series on homevid, starting with Hawkeye, Renegade, and Silk Stalkings.
2007 New Yorker 8 Jan. 58/1 The film fuels a number of Time Warner outlets, including homevid, ancillaries, and merchandising.
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1980 Variety 5 Nov. 66/2 (heading) Atlas cuts homevid prices in Germany.
1983 Variety 2 Feb. 43 Twenty Cheshire clerics have thumbed down homevid cameras lensing during wedding services.
1988 Christian Sci. Monitor 7 Jan. 22 It is..a matter of survival for homevid companies.
1996 Billboard 20 July 50/3 (heading) Home vid data: a lot of baloney? A truce in cable/tape movie war.
2007 Kidscreen (Nexis) 1 Sept. 44 Niche properties that will do decent business but aren't likely to top the homevid sales charts.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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