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October 3rd, 2001, 07:46 PM
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 Is there a way to read DVDs with a regular CD-ROM drive?
Is there a way to read DVDs with a regular CD-ROM drive?
I am really mad that I have DVDs and no player! 
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October 3rd, 2001, 08:05 PM
#2
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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October 5th, 2001, 12:01 AM
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You can buy a discounted DVD drive for under $50. As they used to say in the Nike commercials...just do it...
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October 5th, 2001, 02:13 AM
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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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October 5th, 2001, 02:00 PM
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<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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October 5th, 2001, 07:43 PM
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<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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October 6th, 2001, 02:00 AM
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<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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