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I use mine for movies mainly, but other posts have said some DVD Roms can read and write. What does this mean? Mines is 8 x DVd rom whatever that means...thanks everyone
DVD Writers can read and write. If you bought one you would know because there wouldn't be very much money left in your wallet afterwards. They are rather spendy little buggers.
You very likely have just a DVD Rom that can of course read DVD's, CD's, and Closed CD-R's, etc.
If you are still not sure, give us the model of the DVD and we can let you know for sure.
Hope this helps,
~Me~
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Thanks, froggie. here's the name of my DVD Rom: QSI DVD-ROM SDR-081
Sony Vaio uses this model too in many of its notebooks.
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Thnxs, froggie. What a letdown..stll watching DVD movies better than VCDs.
Can I watch DVD or VCDs with CD RWs?
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DVD ROM's cannot write. ROM stands for "Read Only Memory." So, the answer to your original question is No.
The answer to your second question is also No. DVD's are multi-sided and multi-layered. They will not play in a DVD player.
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Thanx, Jenny..learn something all the time.
ROM means Read Only Memory. Now i know. DVD stands for Dunnoguy Video Disk...:-)
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Huh? DVD's will not play in a DVD player? You lost me there Jenni.
As far as VCD's are concerned I believe they can be played off of a DVD player because they are treated as a Data disk. But you need to install software in order to watch them.
~me~
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Nah, what she meant was, in answering my 2nd question, that I cant play DVDs or vcds in a CD-RW player....obviously typing error -thinking of one thing and typing something else. Thanx everyone.
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Actaully, when it comes to DVD or CD, the ROM stands for "Read Only Media".
Yes, some idiot design engineer got the great idea to use the same acronymn as memory when the readers first came out.
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OK Dave, im stumped...what the differnce now between Jenny's Memory and your Media...i guess this getting beyond me now..
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Read Only Memory uses the acronymn ROM.
Along came CD's which at first, were read only (they didn't have burners back then). Some engineer at Sony or Phillips used the same acronymn for the CD's. But they called it Read Only Media or ROM.
Confused yet? Of course you are. So was most of the rest of the computing world.
Obviously it has to stand for Read Only Media since CD's and DVD's have nothing to do with memory.
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I will remember ROM stands for Read Only Media in future - and that CDs and DVDs have nothing to do with memory. Thanx Dave. :-)
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Well, heck. Guess who else wasn't thinking clearly when she was typing.
I meant OF COURSE, that DVD's won't play in a CD drive.
My gosh. Where WAS my head? LOL
Now, I always knew what ROM meant, I just didn't know where the term came from. So, I stand by "Read Only Memory" associated with the acronym ROM. (as defined by Philips and Sony in the 1983 Yellow Book). Don't believe me? Look here: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci211759,00.htmlSo there. :þ
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I have a VCD and that plays OK in my CDRW drive through Windows Media Player and through PowerDVD. I have just tried it to be sure. It does not auto run on my PC. I go to MY COMPUTER - D: drive - OPEN - there are five folders in there and I open each one till I find a large .DAT file. I open this .DAT file using either of the two players above. Through Media player a warning message shows indicating opening or modifying these types of files can be dangerous as the PC uses them to function. As the file is on the VCD I have no problems. I would NOT open one of the computers .DAT files though just in case.
All of my music video files on CD-R are MPEG files and these also play with either of the two above players.
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