I hear “video”, and I still think of those things MTV used to run… I was just old enough not to get into them back when.
When there’s nothing good on the tube, I rent a “movie”, in whatever format.
When I say video I mean a movie. I don’t say that I am going to rent a DVD, that’s just implied.
Well, tough. As I mentioned in that other thread, when I Googled “video or DVD” I got over a million hits.
In the years between the death of Beta and the rise of the DVD, “video” meant VHS videocassette. There was no point in specifying “VHS format,” and “video” is shorter and easier to say than “videocassette” (and no worse than saying “auto” for “automobile” or “telly” for “television”).
During the years when DVDs became popular but VHS tapes were still readily available as well, the phrase “video or DVD” was widely understood to mean “VHS-format video or DVD”; to spell it out that way would have been unnecessary and sounded overly pedantic.
Nowadays, even though DVDs have rendered the videotape old-fashioned and nearly obsolete, many of us still think of them when we see the word “video.”
When I hear “video” I think DVD or VHS, or home movies. Seven to eight years ago, I used to just think VHS. I don’t generally use the word “video” myself. Instead I say “movie” or “film”.
I think moving images.
For me a particular format doesn’t work into the equation. Being in film and as someone who has done post production work, specifying a particular format is important.
It used to be synonmous with VHS to me, or in fact video media for home viewing (which for a long time, meant exactly the same thing because of market dominance).
Now that DVD is established (and maybe on its way out) and also now that I have worked with a bit of video editing, the term ‘video’ means simply moving picture footage in a very abstract sense.
It means something with moving pictures, usually viewed at home. I’m just as likely to say, “Is that out on video?” as I am to say, “Is that out on DVD?”
If something is referred to as being “on video” I’d tend to expect it to be on VHS. If someone said they were going to get a video, I wouldn’t expect VHS over DVD.
Regardless, anyone who thinks video should refer to VHS and not DVD is fighting a losing battle, and ought to just give up now.
Video makes me think Youtube.
“Video” to me means a recorded moving images and sound that aren’t being played in a Cinema.
In a Video Library, I would still assume that “On Video” means “Have you got this available to rent in whatever the current clear majority format is (ie, DVD)?”; if I wanted a VHS (is anything still on VHS except porn now?) I’d ask for it “On Tape” and If I wanted Blu-Ray I’d specify “Blu-Ray”, and if I wanted it on Holochip thats what I’d be asking for.
It’s the same way we still talk about “Dialling” numbers or equate that “Ka-Ching!” sound of an Old Timey Cash Register with “Money!” even though phones don’t generally have rotary dials anymore and I haven’t seen an Old Timey Cash Register anywhere outside a Museum or Living History display.
As others have said, the term generally needs to be interpreted in context; it’s as likely to refer to a video viewed on a computer (such as on YouTube), as it is to mean a VHS tape, as it is to mean DVD.
Given that they stopped releasing Hollywood movies on VHS a couple of years back (Wiki says A History of Violence was the last Hollywood VHS release), even in a Video Library I’d still take “On Video” to mean “DVD”, unless there’s a LOT of VHS tapes in the store; in which case it probably wouldn’t hurt to clarify with the person asking.
It means ‘I see’, as in “Brutus video”; ‘I see Brutus’
In the context of the original thread, I would have taken ‘video’ to mean ‘VHS tape.’ Back when DVD was aborning and VHS withering, new movie releases were advertised that way. “On video & DVD” meant on tape & disk, or so I remember.
I use video to refer to DVDs as well as VHS. I’ve even called DVDs “video tapes” on occasion and my friends have given me weird looks/corrected me. Videos are also any types of movies that are posted online, like Youtube videos, etc.
Hmmm. I thought VHS, VHS-C, S-Video, Beta, Betacam, Digital8, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, HDV, AVCHD, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, XDCAM, FLV, AVI, MOV, and a shitload of other acronyms.
“Video” is stuff viewable on a video monitor. There’s no other proper definition.
Tape, either beta or VHS (we used to have VCRs on both formats at home), unless the speaker is under age 30 or the word has extra context, like a mention to youtube.
People specify “I was watching a video on youtube,” it’s different from saying “I have Duck Soup on video.”
To me, it simply means ‘a movie that is out of the theatres and available for convenient home viewing’.
If I were to make any assumptions about the format from the word alone, I’d be assuming ‘standard DVD format’, simply because that’s the standard currently. In a few years, I’ll probably veer towards Blu-ray, or plasmatic goo, or whatever the most popular tech is.
I’d be considerably less likely to think ‘video cassette’, since they’ve been missing from stores for years.
I liked it when “DVD” stood for “Digital Video Disc” instead of what it currently means, which is the clumsy and poorly thought out “Digital Versatile Disc”.
In the context of the linked thread I’d assume it meant VHS. In other contexts my interpretation would vary. I’d point out that my wife and I always say we are “going to rent a DVD” we never say “rent a video” unless for some bizarre reason we wanted it on VHS. It probably all depends on how much of your life was in the VHS era, and also whether you habitually called them videos or VHS tapes, or tapes or whatever. I grew up with “video tapes” and I always referred to them as “videos”, that’ll take a while to change.
I was wondering if someone would bring this up; I think it’s the root of the problem. This “video & DVD” convention to indicate VHS & DVD annoyed the hell out of DVD fans, but was really common in advertising for a number of years. The folks who insisted on holding on to VHS probably got used to referring to their preferred format in the same way as the studios who still released product they could use. “Y’got The Grinch on video, no, not the disc, the ad said it was on video, too!”
Me, I’ll just sit here and be sad that laserdisc rarely got more than a brief mention at the bottom of the preview posters and almost never got mentioned in TV ads. And, during the LD/DVD market overlap, people assumed I was using some old-fogey term “laserdisc” to mean DVD…
In general, video means moving images to me. Youtube videos on the computer, segments on the news (“I saw some video of a shooting in north Nashville”), the DVD I rented last week and the old VHS tapes of our kids’ Christmas pageants are all video to me.
However, if someone asked “is this on video?” while holding or being offered a DVD box, I’d know they were asking if it was available on VHS, no problem.