DVD Forum Reviews

The DVD player is the best technological advance since the CD and sales/take up of the devices show this. Obvious progressions brings us DVD recorders which many consumers have held off getting even a player for. Well the format wars have been underway for some time now just like the good old days of Betamax and VHS. The ...  Read the complete review

If you import legally from Australia or Hong Kong you can get new hollywood DVDs for under a tenner. - Advantages: Cheap, Better Picture - Disadvantages: Need a dedicated player

DVDs are pretty cool. Much better than VHS as a format, that's for sure, but I can't help but think we've gone a bit crazy for this new fangled technology. Sure, DVDs offer a better picture quality and a whole lot of other stuff, but are they good enough to warrant a £150 player, and then £20 a DVD, as opposed to £10 (or often ...  Read the complete review

I’m a big DVD fan and one of my favourite types of extras are the Commentaries. Commentaries are not really the sort of extra you can listen too willy nilly, you have to set time aside and commit to them if you want to get anything out of them. A few times I’ve listened to a commentary and they’ve bored the pants off me. Which ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

Everyone can understand the great benefits that DvD's hold over Videotapes, the sound and picture quality, and the amount of information that can be held on each DvD etc etc. Once you have purchased a DvD player there is no way going back. But it really upsets me that the people selling DVDs are taking advantage of us the consumer. ...  Read the complete review

I love watching films, they can make you cry, laugh, get angry, go insane, but most importantly they entertain. That was not supposed to rhyme, please excuse me! I have an Encore Dv450, which is a nice multi region machine, it's sleek, silver and has a superb range of features, excellent sound and wonderful clarity on the picture so combining ...  Read the complete review

DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) is the future of watching films at home, with its high quality picture and great sound (you may not see too much difference when using an older T.V but its still better). DVD's boast many great qualities, which videos do not have, a great thing being that there is no need to rewind or fast forward anymore ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

If you are after a friendly site with the latest and best news then you need look no further than www.thedvdforums.com . I have been using this site for about a year now and I have to say that I am addicted to it. It is set as my home page on my browser at home. This forum currently has over 7800 member which is a huge amount. There are some rival ...  Read the complete review

When i first got my DVD player, most of the websites i used to visit were very plain and dull and were not really updated too often. I then stumbled across DVD Times and through them, the DVD Forums. This was back in the latter part of last year, and since then, i think i can safely say that i have not visited a web site as much ...  Read the complete review

Video is almost dead. Well in our house anyway! We have got rid a huge batch of our original films through QXL, and we now only have those few films that are near impossible to find, or we just couldn't bear to be parted with. We have also kept only 3 or 4 blank tapes for normal TV recording when we are out or watching another channel. ...  Read the complete review

I run a video library and the quality of DVD's is so much better than video that they are bound to take over the market from video tapes within the next two - five years. Now that the price of players has dropped to just over £100 and most new computers have DVD drives, the number of rentals of DVD movies is growing fast. For ...  Read the complete review

It was only a few years ago that the advent of the video recorder had a huge impact on cinema attendances. Although cinema attendances have recovered this recovery has been put in doubt by the emergence of region one DVD's. At least in the past once a film left the cinema you faced a long wait before you had the opportunity to hire ...  Read the complete review

I was recently given a DVD player. They ofer a much higher standard of sound and viewing and the directors cuts are some of the most interesting pieces of film i have ever seen but with prices as they are is it really worth it. The DVD's are twice as expensive as video but are also twice as smal. Trying to store videos is a nightmere but ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

The DVD Forum has got to be your first stop for information about anything to do with DVD's and home entertainment. Are you looking to make the plunge and get a DVD player, but want an unbiased opinion on which is the best player for your requirements/budget? Do you want information about Multi-region players/hacks/conversions? Do ...  Read the complete review

If your like me and enjoy a night in with a bottle of wine, a curry from your favourite take-away and a good video then this opinion is right down your street!! Let me create the scene, You get home from working all day on a Saturday night, you’re tired and all you want to do is relax. You decide to have a night in ...  Read the complete review

These new dvd players are brilliant it is all gone from a big video type to a small CD you can watch them on a dvd player or on your computer. These are the new thing before you know video players will be out and dvd players in. You can buy them from any were like your local COMET ,CURRYS or DIXIONS. The DVS’s are quite ...  Read the complete review