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(Digital 2) A 3/4" (19mm) broadcast-quality composite digital videotape format designed for recording uncompressed digital versions of analog NTSC or PAL. D2 VTRs sample composite video at four times their subcarrier frequency (4FSC). D2 VTRs use the same cassettes as D1, but the formats are not interchangeable. D2 was not very popular and new equipment is no longer made. See D3.

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D2, D02, D.II, D II or D-2 may refer to:

Places

Arts & entertainment

  • d2, role-playing game dice notation for a two-sided "die", such as a coin
  • d2: digital darwin, a digital cinema integrator technology company
  • D2: The Mighty Ducks, the second film in The Mighty Ducks trilogy
  • D-2 (video format), a professional digital video format
  • D2 (video game), a video game for the Sega Dreamcast
  • Descent II, a computer game
  • Diablo II, a computer game
  • Driver 2, a videogame
  • Dotem, beings found in the anime series RahXephon
  • Marcelo D2, a Brazilian rapper
  • D2, a Bulgarian rock band
  • D2, DJs from Japan
  • R2-D2, Star Wars robot
  • D2Designs, Daryl Durham
  • NCAA Division II, in American collegiate athletics
  • D2, Aka Daniel Hagen a known electronic DJ from Norway/Denmark

Business

  • D2 (clothing), a UK Jeans retailing company
  • d2 digital darwin, technology group
  • D2 (hotel chain), owned by Dusit Thani Group
  • D2 Mannesmann, the former name of Vodafone's German division, which resulted from the acquisition of the German company Mannesmann AG
  • D2, the IATA code for Damania Airways

Biology or medicine

Vehicles

aircraft 
aircraft engines 
  • Alfa Romeo D2, a 1931 Italian nine-cylinder radial engine for aircraft use
  • Mercedes D.II, a WWI 6-cylinder, liquid cooled inline aircraft engine
locomotives 
ships 
motorised wheeled-vehicle 

Electronics

  • Cowon D2, a 2007 portable media player with touch screen interface
  • Datasaab D2, a Swedish concept computer
  • d2, a brand of computer peripherals manufactured by the French firm électronique d2, now trading as LaCie
  • D2 kit, a microprocessor development kit MEK6800D2

Other

  • D2, the Deuterium gas
  • D2, an almond-shaped cloud on Neptune
  • D2, a high-carbon steel alloy commonly used in knives and tools
  • D2, the code for permission to use specific land or premises for leisure (cinemas, swimming baths, gymnasiums) in town and country planning in the UK
  • D2, A type of diesel oil

 
 
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