Can a DVD player play VCD/SVCD format films?
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Depends on the player. Most of the big names won't, but companies like Apex seem to throw all sorts of little goodies in their DVD players.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
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My Onkyo DV-S555 does and so should at least the popular pioneer models (don't know the exact version number) as they're based on the same hardware.
You just have to be a bit careful with the used bitrate of SVCD as some players cannot do >2500Bps.
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Some of the Sonys allow VCD's. Never tested SVCD's though."And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz
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Wombat is correct. As strange as it may seem, higher end DVD players seem to have less functions than budget ones. It even used to be the case that budget machines from big name manufacturers didnt do half the stuff that budget players from budget makers did.
Thankfully some of the big names are waking up and giving their players multiple capabilities.
I've got a Toshiba SD220E, which plays DVD, VCD/SVCD, CDR/RWs and MP3s. Its also highly rated by the reviewers.
I can vouch for the DVD, CDR and MP3 playback, but I dont have any VCDs to try .Athlon XP-64/3200, 1gb PC3200, 512mb Radeon X1950Pro AGP, Dell 2005fwp, Logitech G5, IBM model M.
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Originally posted by RichL
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I've got a Toshiba SD220E, which plays DVD, VCD/SVCD, CDR/RWs and MP3s. Its also highly rated by the reviewers.
I can vouch for the DVD, CDR and MP3 playback, but I dont have any VCDs to try .
Toshiba SD220E, I'll remeber this. Is there a DVD drive comparable to this?
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I was going to recommend Taz's link.
My Pioneer plays damn near everything, but standard VCD's look like crap - I think its MPEG1 algorithm sucks ass. My friend's 5-disc changer (a year newer, a step up, and a changer from mine) plays VCD's much better.
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Just for the record:
APEX is dropping support for VideoCD but keeping support for SuperVideoCD. Problem is that VCD licensing fees were a cost they didn't want to pass on anymore.
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Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
Just for the record:
APEX is dropping support for VideoCD but keeping support for SuperVideoCD. Problem is that VCD licensing fees were a cost they didn't want to pass on anymore.
Dr. Mordrid
As a side note, my Sony DVD player will play VCD's (I have a few) but only if they're on CD's that the player will read. CD-RW's work flawlessly though. I just want to upgrade to a progressive scan one
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Hooray for no-name brands...
Just bought an AudioLogic ADV802PS DVD player which has Progressive Scan and plays EVERYTHING, including miniDVD (15 minutes or so of DVD quality on Cds burned with a Cd-writer.) $149(Cdn) which is about $25(US).The Canadian price is correct but I'm only joking with my conversion into US dollars.Last edited by Patrick; 12 December 2002, 14:37.
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