Is CD-ROM compatible with DVD-ROM?
Hier finden Sie die aktuellen Infos zur DVD TechnologieYes. All DVD-ROM drives will read CD-ROMs (Yellow Book). Software on a CD-ROM will run fine in a DVD-ROM system. However, DVD-ROMs are not readable by CD-ROM drives.
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Hier finden Sie die aktuellen Infos zur DVD TechnologieSometimes. The problem is that CD-Rs (Orange Book Part II) are "invisible" to DVD laser wavelength because the dye used in CD-Rs doesn't reflect the beam. Some first-generation DVD-ROM drives and many DVD players can't read CD-Rs. The common solution is to use two lasers at different wavelengths: one for reading DVDs and the other for reading CDs and CD-Rs.
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Sony Asia Pacific : Support : Product FAQs : DVP-K56PDVD-ROM has is a later technology, all CD-ROMs can be read by DVD-ROM. However, DVD-ROMs cannot be read by CD-ROM drives.
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Is CD-i compatible with DVD?
Hier finden Sie die aktuellen Infos zur DVD TechnologieIn general, no. Most DVD players will not play CD-i (Green Book) discs. However, Philips has announced that it will make a DVD player that supports CD-i. Some people expect Philips to create a "DVD-i" format in attempt to breathe a little more life into CD-i (and recover a bit more of the billion or so dollars they've invested in it).
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alt.video.dvd FAQMaybe. The problem is that CD-Rs (Orange Book Part II) are "invisible" to the wavelength of laser required by DVD, because the dye used in CD-Rs doesn't reflect the laser beam. Supposedly there will be new CD-R2 blanks that will work with CD-ROM and DVD. A better solution, announced by Sony, is a twin-laser pickup in which one laser is used for reading DVDs and the other for reading CDs and CD-Rs. This provides complete backwards compatibility with millions of CD-R discs.Related Questions
Will DVD replace CD-ROM?
Hier finden Sie die aktuellen Infos zur DVD TechnologieYes. Some CD-ROM drive manufacturers plan to cease CD-ROM drive production after a few years in favor of DVD-ROM drives. Because DVD-ROM drives can read CD-ROMs, there is a compatible forward migration path.
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Hier finden Sie die aktuellen Infos zur DVD TechnologieSometimes. It's not required by the DVD spec, but it's trivial to support the Video CD (White Book) standard since any MPEG-2 decoder can also decode MPEG-1 from a Video CD. Panasonic, RCA, Samsung, and Sony models play Video CDs. Japanese Pioneer models play Video CDs but American models older than the DVL-909 don't. Toshiba players older than models 2100, 3107, and 3108 don't play Video CDs. VCD resolution is 352x288 for PAL and 352x240 for NTSC.
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Hier finden Sie die aktuellen Infos zur DVD TechnologieNot yet. Since Photo CDs are usually on CD-R media, they may suffer from the CD-R problem (see 2.4.3). That aside, DVD players could support Photo CD with a few extra chips and a license from Kodak. No one has announced such a player. Most DVD-ROM drives will read Photo CDs (if they read CD-Rs) since it's trivial to support the XA and Orange Book multisession standards.
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Hier finden Sie die aktuellen Infos zur DVD TechnologieYes. DVD players will play music from Enhanced Music CDs (Blue Book, CD Plus, CD Extra), and DVD-ROM drives will play music and read data from Enhanced CDs. Older ECD formats such as mixed mode and track zero (pregap, hidden track) should also be compatible, but there may be a problem with DVD-ROM drivers skipping track zero (as has been the case with some new CD-ROM drivers).
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Is CD audio (CD-DA) compatible with DVD?
Hier finden Sie die aktuellen Infos zur DVD TechnologieYes. All DVD players and drives will read audio CDs (Red Book). This is not actually required by the DVD spec, but so far all manufacturers have stated that their DVD hardware will read CDs. On the other hand, you can't play a DVD in a CD player. (The pits are smaller, the tracks are closer together, the data layer is a different distance from the surface, the modulation is different, the error correction coding is new, etc.)
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Multimedia Scotland What is multimedia what is a CD Rom DVD ...DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk. A DVD can hold a great deal more data than an ordinary CD can. More importantly it can play back full widescreen broadcast quality video. This means it is possible to design an animation or produce a film for distribution at a fraction of the price that it cost a few years ago. As well as domestic DVD players most modern computers can handle the playback of DVD disks at full screen.
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Cinram - DVD Frequently Asked QuestionsA single layer DVD (DVD 5) has a capacity of 4.7 billion bytes (equivalent to 4.38 Gigabytes) with double sided DVD having a capacity of 8.54 billion bytes (equivalent to 7.95 Gigabytes). A 4.38 GB DVD will store as much music as seven CD's (9 hours of music), it has seven times the capacity of a CD-ROM and it's the equivalent of 3,400 floppy discs.
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Hier finden Sie die aktuellen Infos zur DVD TechnologieNot currently. Super Video CD (SVCD) is an enhancement to Video CD that was developed by a Chinese government-backed committee of manufacturers and researchers, partly to sidestep DVD technology royalties and partly to create pressure for lower DVD player and disc prices in China. The final SVCD spec was announced in September 1998, winning out over C-Cube's China Video CD (CVD) and HQ-VCD (from the developers of the original Video CD).
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Ex Astris Scientia - FAQNo, because that would be pointless. Please visit the site online, as it thrives on hundreds of weekly updates and improvements.
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