DVD Players
DVD Players have revolutionised the home movie industry. DVD Players offer far better picture and sound quality over VHS tapes. DVD disks are small and light and the picture and sound quality doesn't fade after playing the movie many times over. DVDs are pretty much the movie equivalent of CDs. The DVD Player is now an essential part of any home entertainment system. DVD Players are available from just 30 pounds and will play DVDs, Audio CDs and most have supported for Video CDs.
DVD Regions
To control the distribution of movies around the world DVDs have a region coding system. There are 6 different regions all around the world, each region has it's own number. Here in the UK all DVD Players and DVDs sold in the UK are region 2. If you purchased a region 1 disk it would not play on a region 2 DVD player. There are a limited number of multi region players available that allow disks of any region to be played on a single player. There are only a few multi region DVD Players on the market because the system is designed to aid the global distribution of movies, the larger manufacturers therefore don't sell multi region DVD players.
HDMI
DVD Players are do not provide high definition pictures, the quality of the movie on DVDs is not good enough for high definition. Recently Sony have launched a high definition player called Blu-Ray and Toshiba have launched a high definition player called HD-DVD. At the moment these devices are quite expensive and there are not many movies available that support the devices. Most new DVD Players now support HDMI - High Definition Multimedia Interface. HDMI is a High Definition connector, which is found on all HD televisions. DVD Players can now upscale the DVD quality movie in to an improved quality suitable for high definition. The actual quality is not as good as real high definition images but it does offer an improvement over standard SCART connections.
Scart Sockets
The standard connection for DVD Players for many years is the Scart socket. DVD Players will have at least 1 scart socket. Some DVD players will feature 2 scart sockets, this allows for looping of multiple devices for televisions, which only have a single scart socket.
Surround Sound
The quality of the audio on DVDs is good enough to produce cinema quality sound. DVD Players will have additional sound outputs for connecting it to surround sound speaker system.
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