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Definition von videodiscs im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- plural of videodisc
- videodisc
- An optical disc used to record video images on special equipment
- videodisc
- {i} disc on which images and sounds are stored to be read by a laser, optical disk
- videodisc
- a round flat piece of plastic that you use to record and show films or programmes in the same way as a video DVD. Rigid circular plate of either metal or plastic used to record video and audio signals for playback. It resembles a phonograph record and can be played on a machine attached to a conventional television receiver. There are two major classes of videodiscs, magnetic and nonmagnetic. Magnetic videodiscs have an oxide-coated surface onto which input signals are recorded as magnetic patterns in spiral tracks. Nonmagnetic videodiscs use either a mechanical recording system analogous to that used in phonograph records, or optical technology that uses a laser to read data coded as a sequence of pits on the disc. The most common type of videodisc today is the DVD