Now, go take a look of your DVD player. At the front side of your DVD player it often indicates what formats of discs it can play. If it can play CD-RW or CD-R formats disc, then it can play all Video CD. If you are still not sure whether the VCD will play in your DVD player or not, here is the sure way. We offer one free VCD for our shopper to try on their DVD player. Which VCD is totally up to your choice. Simply you can pick any one VCD from our collection for free.

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.

If you have this kind of compatibility issue, please do not assume that all the movies you have received are bad. This is really not bad at all. There are times that some VCD's may not be compatible with your DVD player. As you know every manufacturer wants to be unique with their product. Thus, it makes the DVD and VCD providers life a little difficult. Again this is nothing more than a compatibility issue.

VCD: If your DVD player supports VCD playback, simply insert the disc and wait for the menu to come up. Press the corresponding number on your remote for the selection you would like to view, or use the "next/previous chapter" functions to move between episodes. DVD-R: If your DVD player supports DVD-R playback, simply insert the disc, wait for the menu to come up, use the arrow keys to highlight your selection, then select it to view.

VCD: Insert the disc into your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive and play the VCD in your favorite program (WinDVD or Windows Media Player is recommended). In WinDVD, wait for the menu to appear, then use the "next/previous chapter" functions to move between episodes. In Windows Media Player, browse the disc and open the folder named "MPEGAV." The *.DAT files in this folder are the episodes. Right click on the file of your choice and select "Open With..

It dependents on DVD drive. There are VCD on published CD, on CDR, and on CDRW. If you plan to play VCD in the CDR media, PIONEER DVD drive is a good selection. APEX and RAITE DVD drives can recognize CDR, CDRW, and VCD. SONY and PANASONIC DVD drives can not read the VCD that stored in the CDR media. However they can read VCD on the CDRW media. And they can read audio-only VCD.

You only need to insert the a disc into DVD-ROM not matter it is DVD, VCD or SVCD, DVD X Player will launch automatically and play the contents for you as long as your DVD-ROM support standard read and write formats. It is just insert and play. You don’t need to bother which type of format to choose for the disc to play. If you find that the inserted disc cannot play correctly, it may be due to the non-standard format of the disc being playing.

There is software to play audio CD's (cdp), VCD's (MpegTV, US$10 shareware), and a free MP3 player (X11amp).

Over 98% of DVD players on the market support our DVD format. If you purchased your player in the last 2 to 3 years, you will have no problem playing your DVD in your DVD player on on a computer that has a DVD drive. If your DVD and it does not work with your player, simply return the DVD to us, and we'll exchange it for a VHS copy.

The DVD'S are recorded onto high quality DVD-R which are compatible with about 95 % of players today. The newer the DVD player the most likely they will play properly.

Most newer DVD players will play the discs we create without a problem. We maintain a list of compatible players. If you have any doubt about the ability of your player to play our discs, please contact us and we will check your player against our compatability list.

Sometimes this problem is caused by media incompatibility issues. If a DVD/CD does not play or work after you have burned the medium, choose another medium type or brand and repeat the burning process. Eventually, you may have to lower the burning speed. Many writers are not compatible with cheap or old media (blanks). The quality of some blanks is actually so bad, that the specified maximum speed cannot be reached in most cases. Find a combination of writer, disc and player that work together.

The reason why some burned CD or DVD discs cannot be played on your DVD/VCD player is due to the "Read" ability of your DVD/VCD player. Please try to play your burned CD or DVD disc with this DVD player software on your computer. You may download the free DVD player software from the following links: If the burned CD or DVD disc plays well, there is probably a compatibility problem with your current DVD player. Please try to play the burned CD or DVD disc on another DVD player.

It's not likely. DVD circuitry is completely different, the pickup laser is a different wavelength, the tracking control is more precise, etc. No hardware upgrades have been announced, and in any case they would probably be more expensive than buying a DVD player to put next to the laserdisc player.

Yes, if you have a DVD player purchased in the last 12 months, possibly if you purchased your DVD player before that. Check with this compatibility guide to see if your older player is listed.

Possibly. Some newer DVD players support audio playback on both CD and DVD media, while older models that claim to support MP3 playback will only recognize them on CD-ROM media. If you don't know what formats are supported by your player, visit DVDRhelp.com to see if they have your player listed. Remember: All our DVDs are recorded on DVD-R media. Check to see if your player will work with DVD-R, DVD+R, or both. [top]

Display card can not support double screen broadcast function. What's matter? A: If your display card can support the video transport to TV, then you can use this function to take other desktop activities while broadcast on TV. That is because the display memory is limited (4M) and can not support enough hardware acceleration. You can select in the single display option and manually setup full screen 640*480*8 to save display memory and increase the play speed.