Yes, we have a DJ quality double-deck CD player on our P.A. system. We can play requests, and also keep the dance party going between band sets. Index

The audio presentation portion of our demo is presented as CD Audio. If you have a CD Player option for your computer, you will be able to hear the demo at your computer. Otherwise, any CD player will play the audio tracks of our demo CD.

Playing music with the CD Player is very simple. A feature called auto-play detects when you insert a CD into the CD-ROM drive and automatically starts the music for you. If auto-play does not work, here is how to do it manually. Follow these steps to play a CD: Select Open. In the Open dialog box, change to the drive and folder that contains the file you want to play. When you see the sound file you want to play, double-click on it. To play the sound, click the Play button.

There are two completely different systems available currently, both of which are called Picture-CD. One is defined by Kodak, the other one by Corel and Adaptec. A Kodak Picture-CD is used in the same way as a Photo-CD, but the file format is different, and an application for Microsoft Windows instead of CD-i is stored on the CD. As a result, a Kodak Picture-CD is not compatible with Photo-CD players or CD-i players. However, there are plans to make Kodak Picture-CD compatible with Video-CD 2.

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.

HDCD (High Density Compatible Digital) is an extension to CD-Audio which raises the bit depth of the sampes from 16 to 20 bits, allowing for a higher sound quality on players with a HDCD decoder. Any HDCD-CD can be played on any CD-player, including CD-i players. To date, no CD-i player makes use of this extra HDCD-information.

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.

It is known that several so-called Video-CDs exist that do not play on a CD-i player. This is mainly the case with certain titles from China and the Far East. Mostly, this is due to the absence of a CD-i application on the disc. As mentioned before, such a CD-i application is a mandatory requirement for a Video-CD, and a disc that does not include it violates the license terms (but this is often the case with illegal discs for which no license fees were payed in the first place!).

Yes, just flip the Enable/Disable switch on the back of the SCSI-TV to DISABLE and reset the CDTV or A500. You can also use the CDTV-Player program included on the Install disks to play audio CD's from the Workbench.

The term CD-ROM is used for all types of usage of a CD in computer applications. A CD-ROM can contain various filesystems (like ISO-9660, Joliet, Apple HFS, Unix, etc.) or programs for a wide variety of computer systems (Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Linux, Free BSD, Solaris, BeOS, etc.). A CD-ROM that was made for one particular operating system, cannot be used on another system. There is no such thing as the "CD-ROM system".

Super Video-CD is an extension to the Video-CD specification, set up by the original Video-CD licensees (Philips, Sony, JVC and Matsushita) in 1999. Super Video-CD uses DVD-quality MPEG-2 video on a standard CD which runs at variable bit rates up to double speed (2.8 kbps). This allows for 35 to 70 minutes of high quality video on a regular CD. Super Video-CD is a cheap way of making discs that are playable on compatible DVD-Video players using a regular CD-Recorder.

Super Audio-CD was introduced by Philips and Sony in 1999 as the succesor of the popular Audio-CD. The system uses a new audio encoding technique called DSD (Direct Stream Digital), which comes way much closer to the original analogue audio quaility than PCM which is used for regular Audio-CDs. To store the large amounts of data that are needed for DSD, a Super Audio-CD uses a DVD-like high density disc.

This problem is inherent in the CD-R medium. There is nothing we can do to insure that a CD-R will play on all CD players, except to select CD players which are known not to have problems in this regard. (Among the worst: older NEC and Kenwood players.) You probably wont see this information on many of our competitors pages but we want you to know the pluses and the minuses of CD-R Duplication. The biggest problem with CD-R Duplication is 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.

Problem 1: Dirt, fingerprints or scratches on the playback side of the DVD/CD is causing problems. DVD's are more susceptible to this problem than CD's. Solution: If a CD or DVD isn't playing back right, first look at the shiny surface. Are there fingerprints, scratches (for DVD's, it can only take one decent scratch to stop it from working) or dirt on the surface? This is often the case if some parts of the DVD/CD work, and some parts don't. If so, then first try cleaning it.

Yes, Jerry will play any CD that you provide if you would like to hear something he couldn't purchase beforehand. Very often a couple will provide some Ethnic music for Jerry. Not a problem, just make sure the cd is free of scratches or skipping before having him play it.

Yes. 99% of the time, I can get songs for even the most obscure requests. Nonetheless, if you already have them on a CD, I'll be happy to play them from your disc. For example, I had a client who was from an Irish family, and many of her family members were trained in Irish step dancing ("Riverdance") with specific Irish folk songs. I have a few Irish songs, but that was a case where her CD's were necessary for the exact sound and instrumentation the dancers were looking for.

No. The MPEG audio decoder in the Digital Video cartridge is only capable of decoding MPEG layer I (used for example in the former Digital Compact Cassette - DCC) and layer II (used for example in Video-CD). It is not capable of decoding layer III, the one used in the popular MP3 files. The CD-i's normal CPU (an 68000 at 15 MHz) is not capable of doing this in software, so it probably is out of the question :-(

No you cannot. You either need a program to be able to play it on your computer or you need a karaoke player. The program, however, is not available in the U.S. Also the program is not recommended because the program might not be compatible with your computer.