DVD Movies

In the 1990's, a new format for watching movies was made available to the general public, and spread quickly. In fact, DVD technology was accepted by the viewing public quicker than almost any other home electronics item.

There are many advantages of watching a movie on DVD, when compared to VHS:

• The digital technology used in DVD production allows for a much clearer and sharper image than available on tape.

• The amount of digital data on a single double-sided DVD provides up to 8 hours of high-quality video.

• The sound quality is also superior to VHS, and there can be multiple tracks of audio for a single movie.

• As for content, the producers of DVD include many special features not available anywhere else, such as director/producer/actor commentaries, deleted scenes, blooper scenes, as well as features showing behind the scene stories of how the movie was made.

• Other special features on some DVD movies include music videos, movie trailers, as well as DVD-ROM games.

• Accessibility to specific scenes on a DVD is much easier and quicker than on tape. You don't have to 'fast-forward' through an hour of tape to find what your are looking for, or to pick up the movie from where you left off. And for rentals, there is no such thing as rewinding the tape before returning it.

• The smaller size of the disc, when compared to the more bulky VHS tape, makes it easier to handle. This size is also what allows delivery in the mail, through a service such as Netflix, possible.

• A DVD disc is also extremely durable, and doesn't wear down with repeated viewings.

• Most movie studios release new movie titles fairly quickly after the movie has run in the theaters. And DVD movies are typically priced at a low cost, so buying a favorite movie title to watch over and over is definitely within reach.