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HD-DVD

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abbreviation

  1. High Definition DVD: a DVD capable of storing between two and four times as much data as a standard DVD

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Gamers who are most likely to pony up for a first-gen VR system like this should be wary about buying into another Laserdisc or HD-DVD that goes nowhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2016

We didn’t need Blu-Ray and HD-DVD either and that eventually panned out for consumers.

From Forbes ● Jan. 16, 2012

In 2008, just after Blu-ray crushed HD-DVD in the high-definition disc wars, I warned people to skip buying a cheap Blu-ray player on Black Friday.

From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2011

Stringer, who is described on the company website as less of a numbers' guy than a creative leader, has had successes such as the Blu-ray optical discs victory over the alternative format HD-DVD.

From Reuters ● May 23, 2011

Originally released in high definition on the now-defunct HD-DVD standard, John Frankenheimer’s 1966 racing spectacular, “Grand Prix,” has been reissued in Blu-ray by Warner Home Video.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2011

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