videodiscn.
/ˈvɪdɪəʊdɪsk/, U.S. /ˈvɪdioʊˌdɪsk/ A disc on which (moving or still) visual images are recorded in non-representational form for subsequent reproduction on a television screen or other display device.With quot. 1964 cf. quot. 1963 at videogram n. 3.digital video disc: see the first element.
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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
1964 Guardian 13 June 11/6 He is Mr Colin Mason, a Wolverhampton electronics engineer, who has invented the Video-disc, a record which will reproduce vision and sound.
1967 New Scientist 2 Feb. 285/3 We shall soon have on the market the video-disc, about the size of a gramophone record and costing about 22 shillings.
1975 Broadcast 28 July 11/2 Consider the mind-boggling experience of a visit to your local bookstore to purchase a videodisc with perhaps 150 books on it.
1994 Computers & Humanities 28 117/2 It is also possible to incorporate video segments from videodisk.
2001 Far Eastern Econ. Rev. 8 Feb. 42/2 With iDVD, those movies can be transferred to video-disk, played on the family TV for everyone and kept for future viewing.
2014 Lowell Sun (Mass.) (Nexis) 22 Feb. The aim is to net $800 to buy a professional disc-cleaning machine to maintain the library's circulating collection of audio and video discs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1964