You can zoom any part of the screen up to 4 times. You can use the arrows function on your controller to move the zoom center in 4 directions. This is particularly good for the Paris Opera Ballet where there is too much out-panning The sound from DVD is very good but not CD quality. You can plug the audio output into an amplifier to get passable sound. Although many CDs have the facility for five- channel sound etc no ballet video takes advantage of it.
All modern TVs can accept a DVD signal.
Multi Region DVD players have been designed to only play DVDs purchased in the same region. But more and more DVD players have been tweaked to overcome this restriction. If you buy What DVD magazine from any newsagent you can see many multi-regional players for sale for a little bit extra. But they are rare in the high street apart from one exception below. On the Kultur Label Nureyevs Don Q with the Australian Ballet has been released.