Kaleidescape Movie Players and Music Players provide reference-quality audio and video output that is comparable to the very best CD and DVD players that are available today.

For Video CD, your DVD player must be capable of playing VideoCD 2.0 discs. Check the specifications page in the instructions included with your DVD player to see if the VCD format is supported. Your DVD player must be compatible with the type of DVD or CD disc used to record your title. Many DVD players are not compatible with some brands of -R, -RW, +R or +RW discs. Your DVD player must support the speed at which you burned your media.

All DVD-Audio releases from the Warner/Elektra/Atlantic family of labels are DVD Video-compatible because they contain a Dolby Digital surround sound mix.

Yes, if it is a "combination" player that is compatible with DVD-Video. Models with this capability will carry the DVD-Video or the DVD-Audio/Video logo.

Your IKTV Music Video CD player will play audio CDs, mp3 CDs and, of course, video CDs. You'll be able to sing along to all your favorite songs.

It is unfortunate that these two formats have similar names because they are quite different. Video CD's (also invented by Phillips) are 5 inch discs that store about an hour's worth of digital video compressed with MPEG-1. The video quality is roughly equivalent to VHS. Video CD's are popular with bootleggers in Asia.

No. The Kaleidescape System imports an exact digital copy of the DVD or CD onto the Server, without removing any copy protection. No additional compression is applied; therefore no quality is lost. The same exact bits (including copy protection) are streamed via Ethernet to a Player. Kaleidescape's Players use state-of-the-art DVD and CD playback hardware and software to provide reference-quality video and audio playback.

Check your DVD player instruction manual, check to see if your player is VCD and CDR compatible. It may also tell you on the front of your DVD player. Check your DVD has been set up correctly, and programmed to play on the right channel of your TV also check connections are connected properly.

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

Like DVD-Video discs, the new DVD-Audio discs can carry a variety of soundtracks, with mono, stereo, or multichannel sound, using different forms of audio coding. Dolby Digital is an optional coding format for DVD-Audio, and those discs that use it will play on any DVD-Video player and on any DVD-ROM drive with Dolby Digital decoding.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you want to play back CD-R and CD-RW discs that have MP3 audio files, look for a DVD player that is CD-R and/or CD-RW compatible and features MP3 decoding. You can use our DVD player comparison charts (specifically the Basic Features comparison chart) to look for such DVD player models. Here's how: (1) click on this link, (2) look for "Yes" under the "MP3" column, and (3) look for the "CD-R" or "CD-RW" designation under the "Audio CD" column.

Just as you can record CDA format to a 700MB CDR, you can do the same to a 50MB CDR business card. The only limitation is the smaller capacity and the CD drive must be a tray loader with the standard 80 inner ring.

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.

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