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DarkDessertion
October 3rd, 2001, 08:46 PM
Is there a way to read DVDs with a regular CD-ROM drive?

I am really mad that I have DVDs and no player! http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi/cwmsmilies/cwm45.gif
MacGyver
October 3rd, 2001, 09:05 PM
Absolutely not. CD's and DVD's are totally different formats. You need an extremely narrow laser to read a DVD, and the laser on a CD drive is much too wide.

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StevePorter
October 5th, 2001, 01:01 AM
You can buy a discounted DVD drive for under $50. As they used to say in the Nike commercials...just do it... http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi/cwmsmilies/cwm4.gif

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AlienDyne
October 5th, 2001, 03:13 AM
Actually, there is a way. Only when the DVD is not copyrighted. I've seen a DVD demo by ATI playing on a regular CD-ROM reader.

But there is no way you can play a DVD movie on a common CD-ROM.

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Darren Wilson
October 5th, 2001, 03:00 PM
<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by AlienDyne:
Actually, there is a way. Only when the DVD is not copyrighted. I've seen a DVD demo by ATI playing on a regular CD-ROM reader.

But there is no way you can play a DVD movie on a common CD-ROM.

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I have some no-copyrighted DVD's here, Alien, which are off the front of various magazines so I tried this and unfortunatly none of them work as the CD lens cannot read the full data on a DVD due to the way the DVD is written. This is on a number of CD-Rom's as well. DVD-Rom reads them all fine.

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Sowulo
October 5th, 2001, 08:43 PM
<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by AlienDyne:
Actually, there is a way. Only when the DVD is not copyrighted. I've seen a DVD demo by ATI playing on a regular CD-ROM reader.

But there is no way you can play a DVD movie on a common CD-ROM.

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You sure that wasn't a Video CD? Video CD's will in fact play from a regular CDROM and ATI's MultiMedia Center plays them....

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AlienDyne
October 6th, 2001, 03:00 AM
<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by sowulo:
You sure that wasn't a Video CD? Video CD's will in fact play from a regular CDROM and ATI's MultiMedia Center plays them....

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Yes, I'm possitive! It is a DVD disc. It has the DVD label on and you can recognize it when you look at its surface. I had a Teac CD-ROM drive when I played it using PowerDVD. I'm sure about it, but now I'm not sure about the rest non-copyrighted ones.

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