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Description - DVD players play the DVD storage media technology.
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Dvd essentially has these properties,
- bigger, faster than CD.
- hold cinema-like video.
- better-than-CD audio.
- canstore still photos, and computer data.
Dvd players also usually support,
- language choice
- playback: such as pause, step, slow, fast, and scan.
- random play and repeat play.
- parental lock
- playback of audio CDs.
- playback of selected sections in a desired sequence.
- recognition of DTS Digital Surround audio
Region 2 is the European dvd movie release number. Dvd movies are broken down into regions. Region 1 dvd are for the USA & Canada and will not play on a DVD player regions 2 - 6. Effectively Region 1 discs play only on Region 1 DVD players, Region 2 discs play only on Region 2 DVD players and so on. The reason for the different regions is that movies are released worldwide at different times, and therefore movie companies don't want people in Europe watching a dvd from America which was released 12 months before the european release. Movies are usually released as America and Canada first, Australia and Japan 6 months later, and Europe 12 months after US release. Basically the regions were created to prevent people from watching Region 1 movies before they were released on Regions 2-6.
Dvds are broken down into worldwide regions for when they are relased,
1 USA & Canada
2 Europe & Japan
3 South East Asia
4 Latin America & Australia
5 Russia, Rest of Asia and Africa
6 China
Therefore a mult-region dvd player will play dvds from any region.
Digital Theater Systems is a high quality surround sound system, which is used in many cinemas. The data rate is much higher in comparison to Dolby Digital or MPEG2, thus providing the highest sound quality in your home cinema. Dedicated to delivering the “Ultimate Entertainment Experience,” DTS has created a media-delivery format that makes audio tracks sound more dynamic, more realistic and more closely matching the original than other digitally encoded soundtracks and consumer media. More good quality dvd players now come with dts.
An integrated Dolby Digital decoder for a dvd player provides the analogue signals for front, centre, and rear speakers as well as the subwoofer. Just connect your amplifier with 5.1 input to obtain digital surround sound. There is no need for an external decoder. Plenty of dvd players are now also coming with 6.1 dolby digital sound. Many DVD-Video releases display icons that show the channel configuration and the number of audio channels (the sound mode) in each soundtrack.
Since video signals are recorded as digital components in DVD Video, a better playback quality will be experienced when using the S-Video connection from the DVD player to the TV. S-video output is currently quite an expensive feature to have on a dvd player, plus you need your dvd video componants to be up to a similar standard. S-video is people wanting a premium dvd player experience.
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