A digital versatile disc (DVD), used for storing and playing digital video content. Emoji

Objects

A shiny, circular optical disc featuring a rainbow-colored reflection across its surface. It represents the physical media format used to store high-capacity digital data and home video content.

Usage Context

Used to discuss movies, music, or data storage. It is frequently sent when talking about classic home media collections or retro gaming hardware. It is often paired with 💿 to contrast the standard compact disc format or 📺 when discussing watching movies at home.

History

The DVD format launched in the mid-1990s as a massive leap forward from VHS tapes, offering superior video quality and interactive menus. While physical media has largely been replaced by streaming, this emoji remains a nostalgic reference to the era of renting movies from physical stores.

Details

Glyph

📀

Unicode

U+1F4C0

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f4c0:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDCC0;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory computer

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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