DVDs

We stock all available kinds of DVD and have over 8,000 titles available and up to 100 new titles every month!

We have films for every taste and occasion, for adults and for children. As well as all the blockbusters we look out for less mainstream films from the USA and the UK, often not released at British cinemas. We also pride ourselves on obtaining films from around the world and buy most non-English language films and have films in languages from Aramaic to Zulu by way of Mongolian, Hebrew, and Norwegian!

We have a large range of instructional DVDs from keep-fit to painting as well DVDs showing opera, ballet, theatre and fine arts. We try to support education and our collection includes dramatisations of set books, courses of study, language tuition and even driving skills.

A wide range of television series and programmes are stocked from Jane Austen to Doctor Who and Peppa Pig to Blue Planet.

We are always happy to receive recommendations or requests for specific films that we may have missed.

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Hiring DVDs

• DVDs can be hired for a week - Charges apply
• Information DVDs can be hired for 4 weeks
• Reserve items at your local library or via the Library Catalogue
• It is against the law to copy or broadcast items from the collection, to lend them to another person or to charge for showing them.

Blu-Ray

Hampshire Libraries have a small collection of Blu-Ray discs which is housed at our Petersfield library. Titles can be requested at any library.

Blu-Ray is the latest disc format to challenge DVDs. They have greater capacity than a DVD allowing for superior sound and picture. A Blu-Ray player is required.

Audio Described Videos and DVDs

Audio Description (AD) helps people with sight loss to watch and enjoy films. The soundtrack includes a professional narration that explains what is happening on screen when characters aren’t speaking. Hampshire Libraries have a complete set of 100+ videos of popular films with an RNIB audio description.

• Audio Described videos available from Hampshire Libraries 

An increasing number of DVDs now give you the option of selecting audio description. You can see whether a DVD has audio description by checking the information on the back of the box. It will be listed as an optional audio or language track as either:

• Audio Described English
• Audio Description
• Audio Descriptive Track
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The range of titles includes both adult and family viewing and no special equipment is needed other than an ordinary DVD player.

• DVD titles with audio description - from the RNIB.
• Consult the library catalogue or ask at your library to check whether particular titles are stocked by Hampshire Libraries.