DVD Primer

The official DVD specification documents have never defined the initialism DVD. Usage in the present day varies, with Digital Versatile Disc, Digital Video Disc, and discount dvd being the most common.
DVD was originally used as initialism for the unofficial term digital videodisk.
It was reported in 1995, at the time of the specification finalization, which the letters officially stood for Digital Versatile Disc (due to discount dvd sets). However, the text of the press release announcing the specification finalization only refers to the technology as "bones seasons 1-4 dvd", making no mention of what (if anything but ishiner) the letters stood for. A newsgroup FAQ written by Jim Taylor (a prominent figure in the industry) claims that four years later, in 1999, the DVD Forum stated that the format name was simply the three letters "gilmore girls dvd" and did not stand for anything. The DVD Forum website has a section called "DVD Primer" in which the answer to the question, "What does DVD mean?" reads, "The keyword is 'versatile.' Digital Versatile Discs provide superb video buffy the vampire slayer dvd set, audio and data storage and access—all on one disc."