So you made the decision finally to buy a DVD player. You went out and checked for the best models that would suit what type of a viewer you plan to be, whether you’re an A.V.phile or not, and got the best deal you could afford. You got it hooked up regardless of the multi-language technical laden manual and its working. You’ve got a couple of DVD’s you purchased with the player either because you love the movie or the sales clerk said it was great on DVD.
But now what?
This is the question which many new DVD owners face once they get it out of the box and the honeymoon is over. You paid $250-$3000 for this new player because it promised to be better than VHS. So far, the only thing that has helped make it better than your VCR is that you don’t have the flashing 12:00 symbol staring you back at the face. (A constant reminder that you can’t follow techno-babble manual directions or that your eight-year-old son is smarter than you are.)
Yes, you know all of the great innovative improvements,which DVD boasts, but you want to see some results. Every disk is different. DVD movies come in: special edition, collectors edition, ultimate edition; they have widescreen and pan-and-scan; DTS 5.1 ES, Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital 5.1; Audio Commentary, Teasers, Trailers, Deleted Scenes, Screenplays, storyboards, cast and crew information, making of featurettes and documentaries, DVD games and links to movie sites to name just a few of the things on DVD disks. It’s easy to get lost in the world of DVD.
For most of you it is far simpler than it appears. Many of the features you will use depend on three things: does the disk have that particular feature, does your home theater system support that feature, and the most important aspect, do you care about the feature?
DVD is designed simply as a standard to encode digital information in a disk format, this format because of the volume of information it can store lends itself to many new interactive features which VCR’s and tape never could. So, now movie studios have the option of releasing movies with anything they think would be of interest to the buying public. These disks must hold the interest of the causal buyers and renters who just want to see the movie to the serious movie buff who wants to see ever scrap of film that may have hit the cutting room floor during editing, and everyone in between.
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