video disc player , also: video disk player

There he stumbles upon a dusty old digital video disc player that is hooked up to a plasma television screen.

One of the most widely used multimedia systems in the financial sector is interactive video (IV), which uses a video disc player connected to a computer.

They were used in everything from UPC checkout scanners, video disc players to medical and monitoring technologies and laser printers.

DVD Play is a Digital Video Disc player that comes with most HP and Compaq computers.

Prices of both the machines and the discs have fallen steadily: a video disc player may sell for $70, and movies for as little as 80 cents, with rentals even cheaper.

The car is part of a driving simulator, which uses a Philips video disc player, in conjunction with an Acorn Archimedes A440 computer, to project video images onto a screen.

By the 1990s, inclusion of audio-video input jacks required elimination of the floating ground as TVs needed to be interconnectable with VCRs, game consoles and video disc players.

There is a piece by Nam June Paik called "Video Flag Y" made up of 84 television sets, three video disc players, eight electric fans and plastic frame video players.

Several manufacturers, including Pioneer, Panasonic and Mitsubishi, now sell video disc players and VCRs which can play NTSC tapes through some PAL sets.

In the early 1970s Teldec was acting for Telefunken in the development of a disc manufacturing technology for Telefunken's "TED" vinyl video disc player TD1005, released in 1975.

Interestingly, the groups that became PHIS included the Philips division that invented laser disc technology and designed the first laser video disc player (Bob Gepp was the project manager of this effort).

There would be no point in designing software to control access to the video disc, unless suitable interfaces are also available to make it possible for the computer in the system to communicate with the video disc player and control its operation.

He cannot wait to get his hands on the newest high-definition digital video disc player that Toshiba plans to release this year - even though Toshiba's technology could end up the loser in the war over the format of the next generation of high-definition DVD's, players and recorders.