home video
Americannoun
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a videotape recorded by camcorder generally for noncommercial use, especially for viewing at home.
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the business of renting or selling prerecorded videocassettes for viewing especially at home.
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“Every time a disruption hits — whether the introduction of television, the rise of cable, home video, the arrival of the internet — Hollywood always reacts like it’s an extinction-level event,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Before home video made it possible to watch the same thing 20 times instead of 20 different things chance put in front of you, one took what the television handed out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
Egoyan intersperses scenes set in the present with home video footage of Jeanine as a child, shot by her own father, blindfolded and doing strange dances in the woods.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025
Hill's actions during the assassination were captured on the Zapruder film – an amateur home video that provided one of the best recordings of the shooting.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025
A home video of Sean playing and laughing with Sara at her second birthday party - just four months before the bomb - was shown to the inquiry.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025
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