DVD players have been around for a long time now and have become quite cheap to purchase. Even though they all play the same DVDs there are several features some DVD players have.

Most DVD players can play music. This is important if you dont have a stereo at home. Its also great if you have music backed up to DVDs as you can choose from a huge selection of songs as DVDs have a much greater capacity than CDs.

An important thing to look for in a DVD player is if it plays different formats of video. For example some DVD players play DivX and windows media files making the DVD player a lot more functional in terms of compatibility.

Now to the recording side. DVD players have been around for a long time as opposed to DVD recorders, which havent been around for that long at all. This is why DVD recorders cost a lot more than DVD players. Being able to record to DVD is a great. You can record all your favourite television shows onto a DVD and store them for later viewing.

A great feature some DVD players have is a built in hard disk. Meaning they have a hard drive like a computer that you can record onto. This is a particularly useful feature. Some DVD recorders have a hard disk of 100gig. To give you an idea of how much space that is you could fit 25 full length movies onto it. You will never run out of space or run to the shops because you ran out of DVDs.

One important thing to consider when choosing a DVD player/recorder is the emerging technologies that might render it obsolete. With the competing technologies of Blueray and HD-DVD it is more than likely your DVD player/recorder will become obsolete. Some good advice would be to wait a while before investing money in a DVD player/recorder. www.technologyslice.com