Have you ever heard of a CD-Rom able to play DVD's???

[AngelOfDeath]

I now heard about to people saying that their CD-rom was able to handle DVD!!!. But I have a hard time believing that.

Have you heard about that too???

AoD

 

[AngelOfDeath]

 

[Zorba]

I believe they take two different kinds of lasers, therefore making it impossible for a CD-ROM to play a DVD. The people may have been thinking about video cds.

 

[Sunner]

Impossible.

 

[3615buck]

Maybe he meant DVD playing CDs ???

 

[Jonny]

Mabye they have DVD players but dont even realize it.

 

[AngelOfDeath]

<< Mabye they have DVD players but dont even realize it >>

He that's my thought too, but I had to ask 'cause I heard it before.

AoD

 

[3615buck]

On second thought, I think I heard of a CD-RW that could read DVDs...

 

[jinsonxu]

Where? Which one? I gotta go buy it fast.

 

[3615buck]

Cannot remember, sorry

 

[urbantechie]

Well actually there are CD-RW drives that can read DVDs. They are called DVD CD-RW drives . Toshiba and Ricoh make em. Some other too.

 

[randomlinh]

they expensive and not really worth it i don't think. too many lasers to go wrong

 

[err]

How bout this?

I heard of a floppy that could read a DVD ?

 

[kami]

Nah, it's impossible. If you don't believe me, rip open your DVD-ROM and you'll find two seperate lenses.

 

[lumpyhed]

Memorex does a 3-1 drive.
Scan have some in the Today only page.

 

[4xu]

If it can read dvd then it is a dvd drive per definition ergo it is impossible for it to be an cd rom drive!

 

[AndyHui]

The Ricoh 9060A does CDRWs and DVD...

Ricoh MP9060A

 

[MasterMind]

You can burn 20 minutes of DVD (MPEG-2) onto a CD-R and play back on any DVD or CD player as long as it can read CD-R. Maybe that is what people are talking about.

 

[Noriaki]

<< The Ricoh 9060A does CDRWs and DVD... >>



Indeed it can, it's a 6x4x24 CDRW and a 4x DVD ROM

They also have a 9120 coming out soon, it's a 12x10x32 with a BURNProof type thingy, and I believe it's 6 or 8x DVD...


I'd venture to say that he has a DVDRom and didn't know it.
An Asus Tray Loading DVDRom looks nearly indentical to their CDRoms for example. And a DVDRom will of course read both.

But a plain simple CDROM can not. (Because of the laser, as has been said)

 

[formulav8]

If you have a dvd player you can rip the dvd movie and then go Here and get this program and change to the mpeg4 format and you will be able to fit the movie on a 700m cdr. Then play the movie from your cdrom. What i heard anyways. I don't have a dvd to try out.