Yes, a CDG Karaoke disk will play in any standard CD Player, However, the song lyrics will not be displayed since only a CDG player can read the graphics track.

Yes, CDG music will play in any CD player, DVD player, or personal computer. However, the lyrics will not be displayed on your TV screen or computer monitor screen.

Yes. Although a CDG karaoke player is required to decode the lyrics for on-screen viewing, the music will play in a regular CD player.

No, you must import a CD to a Kaleidescape Server before you can play it. You can import a CD with the Movie Player 2, the Music Player, or the now-discontinued Reader.

you can read in question 7.12, it is nearly impossible for the home user to make Photo-CDs. Fortunately, there is good alternative alowing you to place your pictures on CD and view them on a CD-i player. Using Nero Burning Rom version 5.0 and up (available from Ahead Software), you can include still images in a Video-CD compilation. Such a disc with your photos can then be played on CD-i players (it includes the Philips Video-CD on CD-i 4.1.1 application), but also on PCs, on Video-CD 2.

For DVD and VCD, with appropriate software, will play on your computer, but computer will not play any tyeps of CDG.

In general: yes. This is one of the beauties of the CD-i system. Since both disc and playback device are extensively specified, every CD-i disc is compatible with every CD-i player, in contrast to a CD-ROM disc, of which you never know wether it will play on your PC-configuration. Look for the CD-i logo on both disc and player to ensure compatibility.

Simply record to WAV-files . All CD Burning software I know of can burning WAV-files as CD tracks. Read their manuals or online help.

No. This is because the pits of a DVD are far smaller than those on a CD and require a laser of smaller wavelength than the CD uses.

In Windows 98, go to Start>Settings>Control Panel>Multimedia and select the CD Music tab and check the "Enable digital CD audio" to play audio through the USBPre. In Windows 2000, go to Start>Settings>Control Panel>Sounds and Multimedia and select the Hardware tab. Select the CD-ROM, and then click on the Properties button, then select the Properties tab, and check the "Enable digital CD audio...".

In order to play any of these formats, you must have a player that will play that format. Many computers now come with DVD drives in which case you could play DVD. If your player is not DVD compatible, it will not play DVD.

First, make sure that the disc isn't a DVD! For example two of the discs in How to be a R.E.A.L. Success are DVDs. If the disc is a CD, first try playing it in another machine. If it still does not work, please e-mail us at CustomerCare@MMPink.com or call us toll-free at 1-888-556-2308.

A DVD-Video player cannot play CD-i discs, since it does not include all of the CD-i logics such as the required operating system in ROM, the CPU and the appropriate audio and video decoding ICs. Most DVD-Video players however can play Video-CDs, but they use an internal playback application instead of the CD-i application that is stored on every Video-CD disc. Hence, CD-i specific additions such as menu screens or subtitles will not be shown.

Yes in addition to the computer data the full length audio CD is included. The computer data is hidden from audio players. The disc is mastered using mixed mode type 2 formatting to ensure compatibility with all audio players as well as almost all CD ROM drives.

Most of the Super Audio CDs that are currently being produced will play on regular CD players - but you should check to be sure that the disc is a Hybrid SACD. We have more information on Super Audio on our RCA Living Stereo Super Audio page.

Yes, you can. However, there are some CD players that are not compatible with CD-RW media because of its lower reflectivity. Check your player's user guide for compatibility with CD-RW media.

Some automobile-based players are available to play your CD-R burned with MP3 files, click here for article: http://mp3.about.com/cs/portableplayers/tp/mp3car.htm

For audio CDs, you'll want to work with CD-R rather than CD-RW because you can't play CD-RW discs in normal audio CD players.