videodisc

vid·e·o·disc

also vid·e·o·disk V0093000 (vĭd′ē-ō-dĭsk′)n. A disc on which sounds and images, as of a movie, are recorded.

[Originally a German trademark.]

vid•e•o•disc

(ˈvɪd i oʊˌdɪsk)

n. an optical disc on which a motion picture or television program is recorded for playback on a television set. Also called laser videodisc. [1965–70]

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videodisc - a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television setDVD, videodiskoptical disc, optical disk - a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface; is read with a laser that scans the surface

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videodisc

videodisk,

disk used with a special player and television to reproduce both pictures and sound. A videodisc player cannot record television programs off the air for later playback, unlike a videocassette recordervideocassette recorder
(VCR), device that can record television programs or the images from a video camera on magnetic tape (see tape recorder); it can also play prerecorded tapes.
..... Click the link for more information. (VCR) or recordable DVD (see digital versatile discdigital versatile disc
or digital video disc
(DVD), a small plastic disc used for the storage of digital data. The successor media to the compact disc (CD), a DVD can have more than 100 times the storage capacity of a CD.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Videodiscs generally produce pictures that are clearer in detail and truer in color than those produced by VCR tapes, and they also offer better sound quality, but the introduction of the DVD led to their becoming obsolete. Two quite different videodisc systems were developed. One operates much like a record playerrecord player
or phonograph,
device for reproducing sound that has been recorded as a spiral, undulating groove on a disk. This disk is known as a phonograph record, or simply a record (see sound recording).
..... Click the link for more information. , using a mechanical stylus that senses varying patterns of electrical capacitance imprinted in grooves on the disc surface. That format fell into disuse, becoming superseded by the laser disc system, which uses a laserlaser
[acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation, amplification, and transmission of a narrow, intense beam of coherent light. The laser is sometimes referred to as an optical maser.
..... Click the link for more information. to read a track cut in a spiral pattern on the inside surface of the disc. On a laser disc, video is recorded as an analog signal and the soundtrack is either an analog or, in later versions, a digital signal.

videodisc

(1) An early optical disc used for full-motion video. See LaserDisc, CED and Video CD.

(2) An optical disc that contains video material. Today's video formats are DVD and Blu-Ray. See DVD and Blu-ray.

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noun a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set

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