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View Poll Results: Do you abbreviate Blu-ray to "BD" or "BR"?
BD--duh, the R is lower-case and the BDA considers "BD" official
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74.36%
BR--duh, it's "Blu-ray" and who ever uses "Disc" with it?
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Do you abbreviate Blu-ray to "BD" or "BR"

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Old 08-30-11, 10:08 PM
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Re: Do you abbreviate Blu-ray to "BD" or "BR"

BD or just the whole word
Old 08-31-11, 11:16 AM
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Re: Do you abbreviate Blu-ray to "BD" or "BR"

Originally Posted by Jon2
Is this really necessary.

I use BR. Probably because of habit from publishing a real estate magazine for 20 years. BD was co-oped by the real estate industry decades ago and stands for bedroom.
Well shit, bedroom abbreviated to BD makes even less sense than Blu-ray abbreviated to BD.
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Re: Do you abbreviate Blu-ray to "BD" or "BR"

BR makes the most sense. But really, who cares?
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Re: Do you abbreviate Blu-ray to "BD" or "BR"

FYI, IMO FWIW SFW. LOL.




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