Contents: Our Goal | Features | Web Page Design | Our Principles | Support This Site | Our Plans

Welcome to TimeForDVD.com.  Thank you for visiting our site.

Our Goal

Our goal is to produce a web site where you, the "everyday consumer", can obtain an independent, comprehensive reference guide and tutorial on DVD and related home theater technologies.  We explain the technology in hopefully what is everyday English, and provide additional details and links for those wishing to find more details and background information.

This site is designed for consumers new to DVD as well as for the video/audio/movie enthusiasts who may be already familiar with the DVD format.  More importantly, we designed it for busy, family-oriented, and mainstream consumers in mind.  To this end, our goal is to provide basic information that is most useful first, then supplement with more detailed information on a follow-up page and external links to other web sites.

Features

For our readers who are new to DVD technology, we offer a quick DVD overview, followed by a DVD Tutorial, DVD-Video tutorial, and DVD-Audio tutorial.  For those who wish to understand more about home theater, read our surround sound format primer, THX overview, A/V receiver buying guide, and Dolby Headphone overview.  For readers interested in buying a DVD player, a DVD player buying guide is offered, followed by reviews of some DVD players, recommendations of specific DVD players, and a listing of special offers and discounts for DVD players through our affiliated online merchants.

For readers who collect DVDs, we offer a list of DVD New Releases and Upcoming Releases.  If you're interested in reading our DVD movie reviews, here's a listing of reviewed DVD movies.  For readers wishing to take advantage of special offers, deals, sales, and coupons from online merchants to build their DVD collection, we offer a listing of special offers for buying DVD movies.

For readers wishing to keep up with DVD and home theater news, we provide a list of news highlights.  If you have questions regarding DVD and home theater, check our our FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) page (with answers!).  Finally, we compiled a list of DVD, Digital TV-HDTV, and home theater manufacturer links and links to some other web sites that may be of interest.

Web Page Design

We set out to design a web site that is easy to navigate, allowing our readers to quickly find the information that are of interest to them.  Near the top of each page, we use tabs to organize the site content into logical categories.  When the reader puts the cursor over a tab, that tab is highlighted and a "sub-menu" appears just below the tab, highlighting the contents under each tab category.  The reader can click on a "sub-menu" selection to directly navigate to that page.

Our Principles

In addition to our goal of producing an informative and useful web site for DVD and home theater, we are making this web site family-friendly, where kids can safely navigate without stumbling on objectionable and offensive language, or the (so-called) "adult" DVD titles.  Good examples of this principle applied are our DVD New Releases and Upcoming Releases pages.  We only list blockbuster, mainstream, and family-oriented titles, as we try to cater to busy families and mainstream DVD collectors who do not have the time or desire to peruse through literally several hundreds of DVD title releases each month only to look for the handful of blockbuster and mainstream titles.

Support This Site

This web site is supported by readers like you in three ways:

First, bookmark our site.

Second, you can refer our web site to a family member, friend, or colleague who you know is interested in buying a DVD player, interested in DVD and home theater technology, and/or interested in collecting DVDs.  Simply send them our URL/link in an e-mail, or tell them verbally (our address is hopefully easy enough to remember):
     http://TimeForDVD.com

Your personal word-of-mouth referral goes a long way in helping us expand our readership.

Third, as you browse through our web site and wish to buy products (e.g., DVD players, home theater equipment, DVD movies, or anything really) online from our affiliated online merchants (e.g., Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, Buy.com, Barnes&Nobles.com, Crutchfield.com, GoodGuys.com, hifi.com, JandR.com, OneCall.com, and SonyStyle.com), click on the link, and purchase the product from them.  We get a small commission when you click through from our site and make a purchase.  This commission helps us defray our costs of hosting and producing content for this web site.  So if you regularly purchase products from online merchants anyway, please start here first.  Click here to see the complete list of affiliated online merchants.  Thank you for your support.  It is most appreciated.

Our Plans

We premiered this site on February 29, 2000 (a leap day).  There is a lot of ground we want to cover and we will continue to roll out new feature articles on topics like: home theater introduction and setup guide, an A/V receiver buying guide, home theater loudspeaker buying guide, DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD (SACD) hardware reviews.  It is our hope that you find this web site useful and informative.  If you have suggestions of any kind, feel free to send us an e-mail at:
     Suggestion@TimeForDVD.com 

Finally, please read our terms of use, copyright notice, and privacy policy prior to using this web site.  Thank you and enjoy.

Sincerely,
Co-Founders of TimeForDVD.com
March 2002

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