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>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:46:32 -0800
>From: Michael Bush <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #5453.9 spelling questions (!)
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Derek Roff wrote:
> Although it is dangerous to correct, or even modify anything Mike says,
> there is a coda to this story.

Dangerous?  What?!?!  You think I have a hit squad for anyone who disagrees?
*grin*

and then continued:
> I read the report of a consortium of the
> DVD powerful- computer hardware and software companies, home theater
> hardware people, and media content producers (movie studios), who had a
> lengthy debate over the "official" meaning of DVD.  The computer side
> mostly wanted the "V" to stand for "Versatile," while the others wanted to
> use "Video," so as not to confuse the customers.  After months of
> discussion, they found a solution- DVD stands for nothing!  DVD means DVD.
> It is not an acronym, but a name.  Thus decided the powers that were.

Go to:

http://www.dvdforum.org/

Where you will find:

> DVD Forum
>
> The DVD Forum (formerly called DVD Consortium) is an
> ad-hoc association of hardware manufacturers,
> software firms and other users of Digital Versatile
> Discs (the "DVD Format"), created for the purpose of
> exchanging and disseminating ideas and information
> about the DVD Format and its technical capabilities,
> improvements and innovations.

I think that Derek is right in that those discussions did in fact take
place;  however, this quote supports that the group came to a resolution of
the discussion.

Cheers,

Michael Bush
Associate Professor of French and
Instructional Psychology and Technology
Brigham Young University
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http://moliere.byu.edu/digital/