πŸ“€ DVD

πŸ“€ Description


A digital versatile disc (DVD), a type of optical disc used to play movies before the rise of streaming technology. Generally depicted in gold, though Facebook’s is bluish gray, as a Blu-ray.

Commonly used to represent CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and related film and music content, especially albums.

Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and Softbank’s designs were once labelled DVD, as to distinguish it from πŸ’Ώ Optical Disk.

See also πŸ’Ώ Optical Disc and πŸ’½ Computer Disk.


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πŸ“… DVD was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

πŸ—’οΈ Alternative Names


DVD-ROM, DVD Video

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