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.
Example Sentences
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Many were self-distributed and only made for the home video market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
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
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
I was going to talk about how we see lots of home video footage in the docuseries.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
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