Ultimate DVD: The Essential Guide to Building Your DVD Collection

By Peter M. Bracke

A new kind of movie guide for the now-most-popular home film format. Most movie guides do little more than acknowledge a film's DVD exists, and afficionados have had to turn to the Internet to find out which DVDs are the best--until now. Ultimate DVD gives the lowdown on which movies really shine on DVD, thanks to their presentation and special features-and profiles the 100 best DVDs currently available. Compiled by Peter M. Bracke, editor-in-chief of the DVD File website, Ultimate DVD features: 100 all-new, in-depth reviews focusing on DVD special features-such as documentaries, cast and crew audio commentaries, trailers, deleted scenes, interactive video games, and more-that informs viewers just how much of this material is worth watching Interviews with producers and directors Bryan Singer, John Waters, John Singleton, and other champions of the DVD format A glossary of DVD-and DVD player-terminology A list of classic and beloved films not yet available on DVD How to get the maximum value from your DVD player How to build the ultimate home DVD library and more

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425196437
• ISBN13: 9780425196434
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Berkley Trade
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.2" x 1.0" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Second edition?

I found this book at a whole sale book event and I thought it looked like a good. I hope they have a updated version of this book because there is so many dvds that are not in the book. Alot of dvds do deserve to be in this book. I highly enjoyed this book and even bought a few dvds that were reviewed in it. The only problem I have is the author seems to enjoy the background of movies instead of the movies. He always talks about the colors in the background and it just seems weird. Still, a very good book if you like dvds.

Paper version of wonderful website.

For the Five years that I have been surfing the web, their are very few websites that I visit today that I did back then. One of these websites is dvdfile.com... which is ran by Peter M. Bracke, so it is pretty obivious why I purchases this book in the first place (to support one of my favorite websites). But the Book, is really interesting. All the DVD specs is a complete rundown on alot of stuff you probably know, but then alot of things you never thought of can be found their. The 100 DVD reviews is exactly that. It is the interviews that make up the core of the book, and are probably the best part of it. They are highly interesting and actually insightful. For DVD buffs, alot of this might be repetitive (except the interviews) but for people that think DVD is just about watching a movie, is a great book to show you all the posibilities those little round discs provide.