DVD Forum Reviews

Want a good budget DVD player? Maybe you want to buy your first player just to make sure your going to get some use out of it, or maybe your just not sure about entering the DVD market right at the moment. Well, I’ve got just the right DVD player for you. JMB DVD players can be found at Littlewoods Extra (www.littlewoodsextra.com) ...  Read the complete review

I have recently invested in a new television, made by Thompson. It is combined with a DVD player. This I think is an excellent idea. To change to watch a DVD you just click a button on the remote control. You can switch between to the two. The DVD player has different functions. You can save the film, if you need to stop it, ...  Read the complete review

At the present time DVD is the future in home entertainment, many have yet to convert from VHS and many feel that the price is too much while the ones who have purchased have made wise decisions and are now getting the benefits of better sound and picture quality while added features on mos DVD's give you that added bonus when you are watchng ...  Read the complete review

When I was looking into buying a PC I was going through the brouchure and I picked out the Computer which taken my fancy because it had a DVD player driver within it, latest fashion up with the fast growing world. With the higher quality Sound and sharpe Digital picture it seems to be putting the reel to reel video in the Attic. But with everyone ...  Read the complete review

Most people buying a DVD player from a High St store will be kept in the dark over the issue of DVD Regions. This is an industry code which, in theory, prevents disks from the North American arena (Region 1) being used in Europe/Japan (Region 2). This is also designed to make you go the cinema, despite the fact that the movie has come and gone in ...  Read the complete review

Pansonic Home Cinema System This is THE home cinema system to be seen with, forget all the other lower cost systems such as produced by sony and Grundig and go straight for this. The system is rather bulky and has a very informative (if not pretty) screen on the front which can be turned when viewing a DVD/VCD or CD to enhance ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Wow how has technology moved over these DVD players that are absolutely fantastic the things about them are great! Like how good the picture quality is and all the features extras, bits they cut out, special stuff you know. Right I have just brought a DVD player and was I impressed or what and the looks as well are great and for the price was ...  Read the complete review

I have been wanting a DVD player for a while now and after reading a review in Stuff magazine about the best buget DVD'd I was ready to spend £200 on what will probably become one of the most popular DVD's on the market. The Lecson DVD900 was not also awarded 5 stars out of five and Editors Choice from Suff, What Hi-FI also gave ...  Read the complete review

We have had our Mico DVD player for about six months now and it's been the best purchase this year. I shopped around for three months before finding this DVD player and it's been great. Not only is it multi-region but it plays CDR's, CDRW's, VCD's and MP3's. Being multi-region it means that you can buy ...  Read the complete review

DVD players, do they lived up to all of the hype? Digital Versatile Disk players commonly known as DVD players are said to be the replacement for the household VHS systems. These are the pros and cons:- Advantages They provide perfect visuals, no fussiness and the picture doesn’t deteriorate with use, so ...  Read the complete review

Thankgod VHS are slowly going out!, they are being replaced by DVD's and not too soon i say!, the quality of DVD's compared to normals is absolutly brilliant, after you have watched a video quite a few times the quality of it decreases and lines appear in the picture!, also video's look so old fashioned!, at least the machines are ...  Read the complete review

The NEW DivX format it is NOT to be mixed up with the now trashed Circuit City format. DivX is the name of a new DVD quality Codec that based on the Mpeg-4 ISO standard of compressing video. This is then combined with the compression of MP3 audio. The original video codec was created by Microsoft to use in it's WMA architecture which ...  Read the complete review

Having only just bought a DVD player I am not going to review the merits/downside of it until I have got to grips with its use. I perhaps bought a DVD player for a strange reason ( according to my husband ). I bought 2 VCD's while in Thailand having been assured my computer would play them, which indeed it did. For anyone who ...  Read the complete review

Now I’m sure that most of us have heard the letters D, V and D flying about all over the place and some of us are very anxious to buy a DVD player. Some young ones who might be expecting one for Christmas or their birthday will find that their mummies and daddies or friends just aren’t too keen or interested in it. The following are ...  Read the complete review

I recently bought an Encore DVD player via QXL, the web auction site. I have to say I am extremely pleased with the player. It was advertised as a special offer but I seen it advertised at different times for the same dosh on the same site. Basically the player comes for £149 plus about £6 for carriage. One word of warning the player is ...  Read the complete review

DVD is great; there is no doubt about that. The problem of course, is that we need to record on it now! At least this was what I originally wrote here back in 2001. We had to wait until ?the third quarter? of 2001 before we saw a DVD+RW machine. I had visions of factory?s somewhere, making the machines as I wrote. What a rush! Who needed a DVD ...  Read the complete review

Every since my brother bought his Panasonic DVD H1000 and showed me the great performance qualities it has. I thought about getting me one.Maybe what I found out about will help someone else decide about buying a Panasonic DVD H1000. It has everything that your looking for in a DVD player and more.Just by looking at this player, you ...  Read the complete review

Having had the Philips DVD710 for over a year I can honestly say that the machine has been very well road-tested.The good ,the bad and the ugly has been revealed,so here at last are the facts behind the player; Appearance The machine has a unique style,a trim looking jet-black affair that has the disc tray to the ...  Read the complete review

The Lecson DVD-900 DVD player comes in a pleasant Champagne coloured casing. It's a little boxy but I like its fairly simple styling. In terms of functionality this player does everything you would expect it to. On top of the DVD playback it also plays VCD's and SVCDs, and will also read MP3s from CD. It is compatible with CD-Rs ...  Read the complete review