Tips for watching DVD at home
I’m sharing my personal tips on watching DVD at home with a HDTV. Make sure you have a nice TV at home and a home theater system to maximize your movie watching pleasure.
- Use component cable to connect to your TV from your DVD player instead of the composite or S-Video. You can identify component cable as it has 3 colours (red, blue, green) for video output and composite or S-Video is those single yellow cable. With component cable, you can watch your video up to 1080p if you have a DVD upscaler or at least at a progressive scan of 480. The best is with HDMI, but at the moment, the most common DVD player has component output.
- Set your audio out put to DTS if you have a digital output connect to your home theater system. Personally, I think DTS provide better, louder and clearer surround sound quality than Dolby 5.1. I haven’t got a chance to try with 7.1 DTS-EX / DTS-HD / Dolby TrueHD as they are quite new.
- Remember to run through your DVD player set up and set your display output as 16:9 Widescreen for you HDTV. If not, it will remain as normal 4:3 letterbox and with 16:9, your DVD will looks perfect on your TV and there will be a little letterbox for some DVD but that’s normal.
- Set your DVD player to Progressive Scan mode if you have that feature. Only with component/HDMI output get to receive Progressive Scan pictures. It’s of course clearer and sharper.
- Have your remote control around so you can control the volume when mom is shouting at you.
- Turn on the subtitle, it will help you on understanding the movie more as some part will be quite soft and you wouldn’t want to crank your volume to the max just for that particular scene.
- Lastly, lie on a bed or sit of a comfort couch of your home. Get rid of distraction and concentrate on your movie.
So that’s my tips on watching a DVD at home. I love to watch movies, so I always buy DVDs to watch if I’ve miss it in the cinema. Enjoy.
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