DVD Forum

Progressive-scan players are the latest, and highest-quality, permutation of the DVD player format, and Sony's going to milk it for every dollar they can get. With its street price of £1000, this Sony entry into the progressive-scan DVD sweepstakes, the DVP-S9000ES, sells for over three times as much as the least expensive progressive-scan player now available, the £250 Pioneer DVD-434. Like Panasonic, with their premium-quality and premium-priced DVD-H1000 progressive-scan player, Sony has made the decision to enter the market with a player that combines a very high degree of quality and features with a very high price. In addition to the progressive-scan ...  Read the complete review

I love DVD. The Digital Versatile Disc format is becoming increasingly popular and it's easy to see why. DVD offers the ability to have a film in its correct widescreen aspect ratio, a much better sound and picture quality than videotape, chapter-stops that eliminate the need to rewind or fast-forward, and the added benefit that the picture and sound won't degrade with repeated viewings. DVD is pretty much perfect. But this opinion isn't really about the benefits of DVD. I'm going to go into the subject of SPECIAL FEATURES, and whether we should demand lots of extras on our DVDs. The major selling point of DVD is the special features that come ...  Read the complete review

We have owned a DVD player since June 2000. At this point in time the average DVD player could be quite pricy, so we settled for a Grundig one at £180. This was cheap, as most Sony, Panasonic and other more branded names were £300 - £400. Another reason we chose Grundig was because we knew people who had Grundig appliances. They had proved to be trustworthy and worth the money. Our machine was gold coloured, had a nice shape and loads of buttons on the front - I like that. Our first problem came when I bought The Blair Witch Project in October 2000. It didn't play. We took it back to the shop, which was also the shop where we purchased the DVD player. The ...  Read the complete review

DVD as a home video format first came onto the UK market around late 1998. At first not much was known about the format by the general public with only those in the know on home cinema having any real idea of it's benefits. I was drawn to the format early on, working in a computer shop we were starting to hear about the format and I was enticed through my love of films but also by seeing that some film were available to buy on dvd way before VHS. So I bought my first player when they were still quite pricey. It was a Sony and at £450 it wasn't cheap. I had no clue about multi-region and DTS etc and it wasn't until I picked up a home cinema magazine ...  Read the complete review

DVD is one of those annoying buzzwords that is being bandied around the technology industry at the moment. What's even more annoying about it is the fact that DVD is not even a word, it stands for Digital Versatile (not video, you young ragamuffins) Disc. It's an acronym, for God's sake! Does no one else feel my pain? Anyway, it matters not a jot as it is the technology, not the correct usage of English, that defines a new media. Most people know very little about DVD, other than it being the much tipped (although not certain) replacement of VHS, due to its superior picture quality, sound quality, capacity and its CD like interface. While this pretty much ...  Read the complete review