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.

If we made it region-free, that would be in violation of our CSS License Agreement with the DVD Copy Control Association, Inc.

The Movie Player 2 provides progressive scan video output formats NTSC 480p and PAL 576p using DCDi de-interlacing by Faroudja. DVD content may be up-scaled to 720p or 1080i at 50 Hz and 60 Hz for the HDMI output only. Yes. The Kaleidescape Movie Player and Movie Player 2 include support for HDMI (and therefore also DVI). HDMI and DVI displays must support HDCP to view copy-protected movies.

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.

A Movie Player 2 is the best choice if the listening zone has a video display and you want to sometimes be able to manage your music with the onscreen display. A Music Player is better if there is no display in the listening zone or if you want to control your music solely using a stand-alone touch panel (with no video feed) or in-wall touch pad, or by using the Kaleidescape Web Utility.

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.

I haven't tried doing this myself, but at least one user has reported good results by using the Hyperionics HyperCam software.

Yes. Once a CD is recognized by the Music Guide Service, you can edit any of the information about the CD (except the artist name) — for example, you can assign different genres. Any information that you edit will not be overwritten by updates to the Kaleidescape Music Guide. Currently, once you have edited the information about a CD, there is no way to revert to the Kaleidescape Music Guide information.

You first have to burn the music from your CD onto your computer. You can use free programs like Windows Media Player or iTunes to do that for you. Usually, you insert your CD and import the songs into the player. Once you have that done, locate where the music is (usually in your My Music folder) and then import into your movie editing software like you do the Sims video avi files. Drag the music onto your audio/music track.

The Kaleidescape Music Player is a high-performance audio component that is designed to play up to four independent music zones through digital and analog audio outputs. A Music Player can be used to provide audio to zones not equipped with a video display. Also, the Music Player incorporates a combo DVD/CD disc drive that can import CDs and DVDs to the Kaleidescape System.

After many years of fans asking for this, Hedwig And The Angry Inch: Piano/Vocal Selections was released June 15th 2004 by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. Click link provided here to purchase Hedwig And The Angry Inch: Piano/Vocal Selections.

The original London songbook can be bought through Dark Refrain.com. The Roxy music book is out of print, but Sal Piro (of the Official Fan Club) sells photocopies of this version. A recent UK version was released with various cast photos, called Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show. Mail order copies of The RHS Vocal Score (vocal/piano/guitar) are available from Music Sales Corp. / 225 Park Ave., S. / NYC, NY 10003. The price is $15.95 plus S&H.

You cannot directly transfer music from a CD to the player. You will need to transfer the CD to MP3 or WMA format. MP3 is an independent standard and WMA is the file format created by Windows Media Player. There are many software programs available that let you transfer CD's to MP3 format. An example is Musicmatch (http://www.musicmatch.com/) or itunes (http://www.apple.com/itunes/). If using Windows 98, software will need to be installed.

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.

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.

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

Netscape Navigator on a Macintosh using the LiveAudio plug-in needs to convert its MIDI data for use with Apple's Quicktime Musical Instruments in order to play MIDI music. Thus, whenever a musical example is played, this conversion needs to occur, and thus the 'Importing Movie' dialog box appears. This dialog can be avoided if you opt to use a MIDI plug-in that has its own software synthesizer, such as Beatnik. We do NOT recommend Apple's Quicktime 3.

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.