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CA @ Mar 23rd 2008 12:06PM
Note that I said the trademark DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk, and was formerly known as Digital Video Disk. This is because when DVD first hit the market, it was billed as Digital Video Disk, it was only when PC DVD burners started hitting the market did the "V" get changed to "versatile" to better represent the multi-use capabilities of the format.
"DVD" is ALSO a generic acronym for "Digital Video Disk"
The comment was in reference to the ITC's use of HD DVD, which was likely for generic "High Definition Digital Video Disk" players. Meant to encompass all High-Def digital video formats stored on [optical] disks, and not specifically the "HD DVD" format.
Thus the trademark collision I was referring to was not "HD DVD" with "DVD", but once again the ITC's generic use of "HD DVD" in the document (covering BluRay, and other formats) with the now defunct "HD DVD" format. It was an unfortunate use of the acronym, because it does collide with a trademark.
I won't even get into disk contents, as that is not what was being talked about here. The comments are in context of the article, not a general discussion on the various formats, and what they are capable of carrying. But yes, one can put anything on the disk, as it is all basically data at the lowest level. I never implied anything different.