Review: DVDs and Videos

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DVD:

No need to rewind
Easy skip ahead
Menus to view different options non-linearly
Subtitles
Small storage space

Video:

Built-in ability to skip stupid intros, piracy ads, menus, etc
Low hassle recording
Cheap
No stupid bonus features

Comments

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These days, I suspect a new video player would cost a lot more than a DVD player - production volumes and cut-throat competition means you can pick up a new DVD player in Tesco for under £20. Second-hand, though, you must be able to get a video player for practically nothing.

Also, all the unskippable piracy warnings, copyright warnings, trailers and so on they throw on to make you wish you'd just downloaded a pirated version rather than actually paid for it can be avoided with the right software - some players (such as VLC on the PC) ignore the 'unskippable' flag so you can blow right through them.

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These days, I suspect a new video player would cost a lot more than a DVD player...

Yep, agree with both (though DVD recorder may cost slightly more, which comes with VHS automatically?). FWIW, if you were commenting on "cheap", I was referring to buying films/shows, I probably should have made that clear.

can be avoided with the right software

Yeah, I really should get round to searching that out for mine. I had a quick google once but there wasn't a trivial answer and I never sorted it out.