DVD singles - digital videodiscs that typically include two music videos along with extra features - represent a market that is just beginning to be charted by the music business.

A digital videodisc will contain "much more material, a sort of virtual museum," Mr. Geffen said.

Dozens of state companies began making the disc players, which have since been adapted to play higher quality digital videodiscs.

A federal judge has prohibited Mr. Corley from distributing a computer program that can break the security lock on a digital videodisc.

Play it, Sam: "DVD stands for 'digital videodisc.' "

An association representing the movie and consumer electronics industries has gone to court in California to keep Web sites from distributing software that allows people to make copies of digital videodiscs.

That stands for "digital videodisc," and by the time I finish this sentence I'll have forgotten the whole phrase.

The competition commissioner, Mario Monti, said his department was investigating why the prices of digital videodiscs cost more in the European Union than in the United States.

Netflix, an online digital videodisc rental company, said that it had 10 new distribution centers operating across the country.

With the release last week of "Saving Private Ryan," digital videodiscs made headway in a vital genre: the Steven Spielberg movie.