Videohound's DVD Guide

by Michael Mayo and Jim Olenski

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578591155
• ISBN13: 9781578591152
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 728 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A Videohound's Best Friend!

Videohound's DVD guide is a perfect companion to the Retriever 2001. The DVD guide is somewhat smaller in comparison, it only covering over 3,000 films on DVD and the Retriever covering around 24,000 on VHS, LD, and DVD. What makes the DVD guide so special is that it reviews the film as well as the DVD. Each review covers format comparison, sound and picture quality, special features, and retail price listings. All of these are important to the DVD enthusiast. Also included are 8 indexes (cast, alternative titles, director, screenwriter, cinematographer, composer, category, and distributor) for your searching convenience. The Videohound book collector will have already made up their mind but anyone interested in more in-depth reviews of DVD releases will want this. The book reviews DVDs as recent as 1999 and uses the classic "Woof!" to 4 bones rating system that houndheads have grown to love. Out of 728 pages, 510 are reviews, so it is somewhat "lighter" than the Retriever and easier to carry around too. Because this is a DVD guide, you may not find your favorite movie in it (thats why you have the Retriever, right?) but you will find most of the big DVDs and quite a few of the small ones, even some forgotten ones. Just to give you an idea of it's wide variety, tonight I have read reviews for Shaft, 101 Dalmations, and 2000 Maniacs. If you know these films you might be laughing right now, hearing them mentioned in a sentence. This book should be on top of your DVD player, in the vicinity of it, or sitting in the empty space where your DVD player will go when you get around to buying one. Ah, I likes the movies.