Welcome to UK DVD!

Welcome to UK DVD, the best resource for DVD related shopping online in the UK. This web site has two basic purposes, the first is to explain all of the different DVD products that you can buy online and the other is to provide quality links to shops where you can buy these products. These links are taken from our huge shopping database which includes most of the top online shops, the prices are updated on a regular basis too. We list products on each page and we list them with the cheapest first so finding cheap DVD products is easy with us, to use our web site choose an option from the menu on the left and you will be presented with a page that explains the DVD product that the page is about and lots of relevant products with the cheapest first from lots of top UK shops.

DVD's are the most popular choice for film viewing in the UK and have all but replaced the old video cassettes. DVD's are like CD's in shape and size but they store much more information, this is what makes them so suitable for film storage as the film files are very large. The main advantage of DVD's is the quality of the picture and sound, DVD's store the film data in digital format so it is of almost perfect quality and looks much better than a film being watched on on old VHS cassette. DVD's also offer usability advantages over the old VHS tapes, there is no need to rewind and DVD's have chapters in the same way that CD's have tracks, the chapters on a DVD allow access to certain scenes in the film. DVD's usually have a menu system so that you can access the film and it's chapters, another cool thing about DVD's is that they often have extras included such as special features and commentaries which are all accessible using the menu system.

To watch DVD's you will need a DVD player, these are very cheap these days so buying a new DVD player is very cheap and easy as almost all electronics shops sell them and we list hundreds on this web site. The DVD player connects to the television in much the same way as a video recorder or satellite receiver does, they use a scart lead and plug directly into the television's scart socket. Most DVD players have standard features such as a remote control and play options such as skip chapter, zoom and so on but some also have other features such as multi region compatibility which enables you to watch DVD's from all over the world.

There are also other types of DVD equipment available, you can buy DVD recorders that allow you to record onto a DVD disc on the same way that you record onto a VHS tape. DVD recorders do cost more than DVD players but offer much more, as well as being able to copy DVD's and record television programmes onto DVD some DVD recorders also have an internal hard drive so you can record without blank DVD discs, these DVD recorders with an internal hard drive do cost more than the standard DVD recorders but again you are getting much more functionality from the DVD recorder.

We also cover lots of other DVD related subjects so you can choose an option from the menu on the left which contains all of the pages we have on this web site, we also add pages on a regular basis so check back soon if we do not currently offer what you are looking for.