English edit

Etymology edit

From vid +‎ screen.

Noun edit

vidscreen (plural vidscreens)

  1. (science fiction) A videoscreen.
    • 1965, Philip K. Dick, “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 246:
      “The homeopape conjectures were correct,” Felix Blau, boss of the police agency, was saying on the vidscreen.
    • 1992, Neil Penswick, The Pit:
      The vidscreen was on in the shop, but all it did was preach about the wonders of colonial life and tell how paradise could be found by emigrating to the smaller planets of the Althosian system.