home video

noun

plural home videos

1

: a homemade video (see video entry 1 sense 1) that is not usually intended for commercial release or distribution

We showed our friends home videos of our vacation in the Caribbean.

People are consuming millions of hours of shaky, selfie-quality home video on their phones every day.

—Karen Bussone

… make a home video, using a cell phone or camera, of yourself performing your selection.

—The Brunswick Beacon (Shallotte, North Carolina)

2

: prerecorded video (see video entry 1 sense 1a) marketed for home viewing

The popular TV series … returns to home video with the DVD and Blu-ray releases of … Season Three.

—Mike Spring

It's not clear when other [streaming] platforms will add season four, but it usually takes several months for new seasons to receive a home video release …

—Business Insider US

Examples of home video in a Sentence

the latest releases in home video

We watched a home video of their wedding.

Recent Examples on the Web

Don Coscarelli became a cult favorite filmmaker with his Phantasm sequels, Charles Band, Brian Yuzna, and Stuart Gordon kept the home video market thriving with new horror releases that reveled in the wetness of the genre. —Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024

Now, Consumer Reports has joined the AAP in calling for the same in the U.S. Today’s parents-to-be may have home videos and Polaroids of themselves rolling around in baby walkers as infants. —Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 16 Oct. 2024

The original home video of the incident seems to have been uploaded to YouTube back in 2013, and has continued to resurface every Thanksgiving since. —John Russell, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024

Not that the past was a far happier place, as haunting, inadvertently prescient home videos by the young Carten show her and her friends parodying the drinking and dysfunctional behavior of their elders. —Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined at sense 2