A newbie stupid question.....

[brewerbob]

Are dvd for movies only? Is anyone putting games or software on them yet?

 

[Shu8]

i think there already are software for them. it's definitely not popular though. in the future there will be more

 

[Dan]

I believe Microsoft has a DVD version of Encarta.

 

[Oracle]

A lot of the adventure gaming companies have posted notices recently that they will be switching to dvd exclusively in the coming year.

 

[Bluga]

Riven and Exile (MYST III) are on DVD.

 

[goophie]

i think dvd is just another way of storage, so technically it can be for anything right?

movies, data, music, anything a cd can.

 

[Kitros]

MS Orifice 2000 is on DVD too!

 

[chuckieland]

do you need a DVD decorder card to play DVD games smoothly?

 

[Kitros]

Suggested, yah, like the ATI card with hardware DVD.

 

[AMB]

If you have above 400MHz, you could you a software DVD decoding program like Power DVD.

I have a few non-video DVD titles:

Encarta 2001 Reference Suite
Baulders Gate II
X Files Game (NOT MY CHOICE - it came with my DVD player)

 

[dawks]

<< do you need a DVD decorder card to play DVD games smoothly? >>


No!.. Games on DVD discs are not 'DVD Games', they are regular games stored on a high capacity medium, IE DVD Discs. And you only need DVD decoder cards to decode and play the highly compressed MPEG2 movies on DVD discs.

 

[MulLa]

Here's another question just out of interest. Has anybody tried playing a DVD movie over a 100base LAN? How's the result?