diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml
index a4c469969b..0dca17fa4d 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
       effects, and control attached MIDI devices.</para>
 
     <para>With some experimentation, &os; can support
-      playback of video files and DVD's.  The number of applications
+      playback of video files and DVDs.  The number of applications
       to encode, convert, and playback various video media is more
       limited than the number of sound applications.  For example as
-      of this writing, there is no good re-encoding application in the
+      of this writing, there are no good re-encoding applications in the
       FreeBSD Ports Collection that could be used to convert
       between formats, as there is with <filename
       role="package">audio/sox</filename>.  However, the software
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
-        <para>How to playback DVD's, <filename>.mpg</filename> and
+        <para>How to playback DVDs, <filename>.mpg</filename> and
           <filename>.avi</filename> files.</para>
       </listitem>
 
@@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ zoom=yes</programlisting>
      usable, but a bit clumsy.</para>
 
     <para>As of this writing, there is no input module shipped with
-     <application>xine</application> which will play CSS encoded DVD's.  There are third party
+     <application>xine</application> which will play CSS encoded DVDs.  There are third party
      builds which do have modules for this built in them, but none
      of these are in the FreeBSD Ports Collection.</para>