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I know Dick predates the media format by several decades, but seeing these initials was jarring. My brain kept insisting this sentence was trying to say something about an interview with Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen on Digital Video Disc...
Fun fact: though Video has become accepted, DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc.
Fun Fact: DVD originally was called Digital Video Disc and was changed shortly after because it began being used for other non-video purposes.
Source: I was there when DVD was first introduced to the market.
2nd source: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php?id=29
I looked into it further because I definitely remember them being introduced as Versatile; the name change happened in 1995 about a year and a half before the first DVDs were produced.
Well, today I learned!