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22 entries in category: ' movies, Formats ', showing 1 - 15

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 BD
  1. Button Down (clothing, Mens - a type of shirt with a button down collar, see also BDC.)
  2. Blue-ray Disc (consumer electronics, Home Theater/movies, Formats - an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format)  
  3. Bullet Drop (sports, Hunting/sports, Scopes and Optics and Lasers - a type of scope that allows a shooter to compensate for bullet drop over long distances. See also BDC.)
  4. Bedroom (real estate - as in a '2 BD' house)
  5. Becton, Dickinson (health and beauty, Medical and Special Needs/health and beauty, Monitoring and Testing - a New Jersey-based manufacturer of hypodermic needles, syringes, intravenous catheters, prefillable drug delivery systems, prefilled IV flush syringes, insulin syringes and pen needles, regional anesthesia needles and trays, surgical blades and scalpels, ophthalmic surgical instruments, critical care products, specimen collection, molecular testing systems for sexually transmitted diseases, and other products. See [ www.bd.com site will open in a new window].)
 CAV
  1. Cavalry (collectibles, Militaria/collectibles, Army/toys, Toy Soldiers - a soldier or warrior who fought on horseback)
  2. Constant Angular Velocity (movies, Formats - a LaserDisc format - standard play, 30 minutes per side)  
 CC
  1. Carson City, Nevada (coins, Other/coins, Mint Cities - a mintmark city, used to indicate coins that were struck at the Carson City, Nevada branch Mint)
  2. CoCo (clothing, Brands and Lines/clothing, Beginning with C - referring to 'CC Chanel', a French women's fashion brand. See [ www.chanel.com site will open in a new window])
  3. Collectors Club (collectibles, Decorative Collectibles/collectibles, Longaberger - limited edition items from their club)
  4. Closed Caption (movies, Formats - a movie capable of displaying the text version of the actors speech on the television screen)  
  5. Cubic Centimeters (other, Units of Measure - a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter, see also CCM)
  6. Credit Card (other, Payment and Shipping/other, Payment Types - a small plastic card issued by a bank or business for the purchase of goods or services on credit)  
  7. Cashiers Check (other, Payment and Shipping/other, Payment Types - a check written by a financial institution on its own funds then signed by the bank's cashier)  
 CED
  1. Capacitance Electronic Disc (movies, Formats - a video playback system developed by RCA in which video and audio could be played back on a TV using a special analog needle and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records)  
  2. 19 1/2-inch dolls (dolls and bears, Lines and Series - CED being one of: 'Claire E. Daniels', 'Cara E. Duncan', 'Constance E. Dash' or 'Colin E. Dehan'. See [ www.ceddolls.com site will open in a new window])
 CLV
  1. Constant Linear Velocity (movies, Formats - a Laser Disk format)
 DF
  1. Dynamic Forces ®  (collectibles, Comics - a New Jersey-based producer of limited edition and autographed memorabilia, including comic books. See [ www.dynamicforces.com site will open in a new window])
  2. Dual Focus (cameras and photo, Lenses/cameras and photo, Sigma - a series of lenses by Sigma)
  3. Dual Force (sports, Golf Gear/sports, Odyssey - a series of golf clubs/putters by Odyssey)
  4. Double Feature (movies, Formats - a DVD containing two full-length films)  
  5. Double Fan (home and garden, Flowers and Plants - a plant with two fans or two separate plants)
 DVD
  1. Digital Vesatile Disc (business and industrial, Office and Printing/movies, Formats/consumer electronics, Home Theater/consumer electronics, A/V Accessories and Cables/consumer electronics, Car Electronics/consumer electronics, Car Video and Navigation/computers and networking, Drives and Storage/computers and networking, DVD Drives/computers and networking, Software - an optical disc storage format)
 DVHS
  1. Data Video Home System (movies, Formats - a digital version of VHS developed by JVC)
 Eng-Sub
  1. English [Subtitles/Subtitled] (movies, Formats - a movie where textual versions of the dialog are displayed in English at the bottom of the screen)
 FS
  1. Full Screen (movies, Formats - a type movie that fills the entire screen)  
  2. Full Size (health and beauty, Makeup/health and beauty, Skin Care/health and beauty, Fragrances/health and beauty, By Container Size - as opposed to a trial size, see TS)
  3. Future Sight (toys, Trading Card Games/toys, Magic: The Gathering - an expansion set code, usually used for single cards. See also FUT.)
  4. Front Strike(r) (collectibles, Matches - a type of matchbook cover which has the striker located on the front flap)
  5. Full Steps (coins, Denominations/coins, Nickel - a Jefferson nickel where 5 1/2 or 6 steps are fully defined on the portrait of Monticello. FS may be seen appended to a coin grade.)  
  6. Fivaz and Stanton (coins, Other/coins, Numbering Systems - Fivaz and Stanton number, 19xx die variety. May be seen as FS# or FS-#.)  
  7. Flake Silver (sports, Fishing/sports, Lures/other, Color Designations - a color code for Rapala ®  lures)
  8. Factory Sealed (other, General Item Condition)
  9. [Free/Fast] Shipping (other, Payment and Shipping/other, Shipping Types - see also FS&H)
 HD
  1. Hard Drive (computers and networking, Drives and Storage/computers and networking, Hard Drives - a device for storing and retrieving digital information, see also HDD)
  2. High Density (computers and networking, Drives and Storage/computers and networking, Floppy Drives - a disk that can hold two or more times as much data per unit area as a double-density disk of the same size)
  3. High Definition (consumer electronics, Televisions - televisions with high-definition display capability/consumer electronics, Home Theater - home theater systems with high-definition capability/consumer electronics, Satellite and Cable TV - satellite systems with high-definition capability/consumer electronics, A/V Accessories and Cables - high-definition cables and connectors/movies, Formats - a high resolution video/cameras and photo, Film - camera filters by Hoya/cameras and photo, Camcorders - camcorders capable of high-definition recording/sports, Sports Cards/sports, General Card Types - a card that is higher than average in quality)  
  4. Harley Davidson (motor vehicles, Manufacturers/collectibles, Transportation/collectibles, Automobilia - an American motorcycle manufacturer, see [ www.harley-davidson.com site will open in a new window])
  5. Heavy Duty (motor vehicles, Types - a type of truck)
  6. Hand Drawn (stamps, Miscellaneous - a cachet applied to a cover by hand with pen, pencil, brush, chalk, or other media)
 HD-DVD
  1. High Definition - Digital Vesatile Disk (movies, Formats - a discontinued high-density optical disc format for storing data and high-definition video)
 Lbx
  1. Letterbox (movies, Formats - a display format in which black bars/areas appear on the top and bottom of the screen, see also Ltbx and WS)
 LD
  1. Laser Disk (movies, Formats/consumer electronics, Home Theater - a home video optical storage format)  
  2. Limit Dimensions (sports, Golf Gear/sports, Cobra - a golf club series by Cobra)
  3. Low Dispersion (cameras and photo, Lenses/cameras and photo, Tamron - a type of lens by Tamron, see also LDO)
  4. Light Duty (motor vehicles, Types - a type of truck)
  5. Large Date (coins, Miscellaneous - refers to a coin whose date digits are large. A change in the size of the date was made early in the production of the 1960 cents because the Mint was having trouble with the digits of the date chipping on the dies. See also SD.)
 Ltbx
  1. Letterbox (movies, Formats - a display format in which black bars/areas appear on the top and bottom of the screen, see also WS)
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