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Brazucs
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| Is there any way to watch DVDs on a CD-Rom drive... maybe with a program?? |
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JoeImp
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I don't believe so, no. You can emulate it if you have it on your computer, with alcohol 120 or something, but I don't think you can watch it any way by putting it in your cd-rom drive.
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Cap'n Refsmmat
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I think DVD and CD have a completely different data format anyways, requiring different hardware to read.
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AlienCC
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[quote name='Cap'n Refsmmat' date='Mar 25 2005, 14:54 ']I think DVD and CD have a completely different data format anyways, requiring different hardware to read.[/quote]
That is correct, this would be like trying to play a VHS tape, in a cassette player, (if you ignore the fact the physical size of the media are different). To play back DVD you need hardware that supports it, like a dvd rom or dvd burner which you can pick one up a high quality one for in the ballpark of $40-$100 depending which you are getting (rom vs burner), and where from.
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NETWizz
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Yeah, you can buy an internal drive for a very low price. It should be very easy to install it too. I would say it will take 5 to 15 minutes.
If you only want to watch DVDs and not do anything else, you can buy a DVD-ROM for $20.
You will need software such as PowerDVD, WinDVD or something else with an MPEG-2 Codec. You can probably download a codec if windows does not alreay have one for the Windows Media Player.
If you want DVD playback + 52x CD/RW Combo Drives those are $30 to $40
DVD Burners begin at $40 for an okay 8x Burner.
16X Dual layer +-R/RW burners are about $70-$110
Any version of Windows 98 Second Edition or higher should work fine with a DVD ROM, and 2000/XP are great with Burners. They support correct ATAPI, AOAPI, EIDE... capabilites for burning.
98 SE can probably be made to work with the proper ASPI drivers.
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JoeImp
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leofox
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| Posted: 27 Mar 2005 05:47:07 am Post subject: |
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JoeImp wrote:
Yeah, the disks are expensive, but you might want to already buy a Dual Layer burner, so you don't have to buy a new burner in the future if you want to burn dual layer anyway. |
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anduril66
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| Posted: 27 Mar 2005 11:44:24 am Post subject: |
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| Of course, the DL disks will lower in price too. ($1 a disc in one year-my guess) |
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NETWizz
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| Posted: 28 Mar 2005 04:39:12 pm Post subject: |
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Just buy a 12x or 8x burner for $20 to $40.
If you can get a Plextor or Lite-On. Both have good reputations. |
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