Do all dvd players can play vcd ?

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Most all of them should. There's probably a few older ones that don't, though.

Most play vcd which is mpeg1, but there are many many older models that do not support recordable cd media, so on those units only store bought(meaning pressed vcds, not burned at home style)

For a good indicator, look your model up at

under dvd players

And some newer ones don't play VCD. I recently got an Apex 1600 as a gift (to replace my old GE5803 that has been running 5 years and shows sign of arthritis). It does everything out of box but play VCD (both import and home burned). Fortunately firmware existed to get around that.

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Some of those may play CDRW:s, but not CDR:s.

I had an old Pioneer DV-505, with a single wavelength laser, and it would normally not play any CDR:s, but had no problem at all playing CDRW:s. Some brands of really light blue dye CDR:s could be played though.

It would play vcd:s, but not s-vcd:s.

Thomas

Any DVD player manufactured in the past 2 years or so, costing US$100 or less, will almost certainly play DVD, DVD+/-/R/RW, VCD, SVCD, XVCD, MP3, WMA, jpg and a few others.

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That's strange. Apex was always the #1 brand to go to for VCD and SVCD. All the Apex DVD players my friends and family have play almost everything you can throw at them.

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Better question; How come some cheapjack walmart player will play

5-7 formats while mega-dollar Sony, etc, DVD players won't support anything but DVD, CD Video And CD-Rs????

Evidently Apex stopped supporting VCD with later 1600's and possibly other Apex players. I also have a new Apex portable DVD player from last fall that plays VCD out of the box.

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Designed in China, where the customer seems king.

- versus - Designed by committee, where MPAA, DVD-CCA and others have a big influence.

Some more examples:

- the Sony "MP3" players that couldn't play MP3's

- "hifi component" CD burners that couldn't use ordinary CD-Rs

- Sony car radios that wouldn't read CD-Rs

- a Sony DVD writer (which is actually a Lite-On) that won't set the 'book type' to 'normal DVD' any more after a firmware update - while the base model Lite-On still can after the corresponding firmware upgrade?

DVD region codes are a similar matter.

Thomas

Apex was forced to pay royalties fo Philips for use of the VCD format, and decided instead to drop support for it. Many models will play SVCD which is not covered by Philips' patents.

Try this site:

They list compatability for hundreds of DVD players.

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