Citations:videophilia

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Noun: "an interest in and/or appreciation for video, particularly home media with high picture quality"[edit]

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  • 1987 — Jonathan Miller, "Shopping: The flat screen society", The Times, 17 January 1987:
    With a diameter of about 5 feet and the aesthetic appeal of a radar aerial, the home satellite aerial is nevertheless the ultimate symbol of videophilia.
  • 1987Vanity Fair, Volume 50:
    This means that videophilia is focused more on equipment and film trivia than on some quasi-mystical quest for perfection.
  • 1989Stereophile, Volume 12, Issues 9-11:
    But just show one of these people a video display in which the picture actually resembles what he saw last month in a movie theater, and you may well convert him to videophilia.
  • 2008 — James Bennett & Tom Brown, "Introduction: Past the Boundaries of 'New' and 'Old' Media: Film and Television After DVD", in Film and Television After DVD (eds. James Bennett & Tom Brown), Routledge (2008), →ISBN, page 5:
    Whilst, as Davis shows here, a B-film such as Leeches! might be interesting and worthy of attention at an aesthetic level, it is less the "quality" of its aesthetics that is at stake than its place within a system of home film cultures that cherish videophilia as much as DVD's ability to replicate more established cinephilic discourses.

Noun: "an inactive lifestyle characterized by activities that involve spending time in front of a screen, such as television, video games, and the Internet"[edit]

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  • 2006 — Johnny L. Roberts, "Watching the Watchers", Newsweek, 16 July 2006:
    Last week a study for the Nature Conservancy described the trend as "videophilia"--"the new human tendency to focus on sedentary activities involving electronic media."
  • 2008 — Dan Brockington, Rosaleen Duffy, & Jim Igoe, Nature Unbound: Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas, Earthscan (2008) →ISBN, page 199:
    Nor is it at all surprising that this decline is well correlated with videophilia, a sedentary lifestyle based on consuming images []
  • 2008 — Martin DeGroot, "Apathy in arts reflected in general lack of activity", The Record, 26 February 2008:
    The reports on nature-oriented recreational activities losing their appeal emphasize the concurrent rise of "videophilia" -- a shift to "sedentary, electronic diversions such as playing video games, surfing the Internet and watching television" as a primary factor.
  • 2012 — Eva M. Selhub & Alan C. Logan, Your Brain On Nature: The Science of Nature's Influence on Your Health, Happiness, and Vitality, Wiley (2012), →ISBN, page 3:
    Nature withdrawal is being driven, at least in part, by the lure of info-entertainment-rich commercial screens — the attraction of the screen and indoor video games, so-called videophilia, is very strong.
  • 2012Nancy Sleeth, Almost Amish: One Woman's Quest for a Slower, Simpler, More Sustainable Life, Tyndale (2012), →ISBN, page 78:
    We are spending less time in parks, less time camping and hiking, and less time in unstructured outdoor play because videophilia is replacing biophilia.