I need to pick your techies brain. I am currently in Hong Kong and going absolutely crazy at the sights of cheap Video CD ($35HKG)However I do not know if on my return to England they will play on my DVD player. For your information my DVD player has been chipped and therefore is multi Region. So please enlighten me with your wisdom and let me know if I could play those Video CD at home on the DVD player.

Thanks and regards

-- Blake Pautraum (blakep@allenovery.com), April 06, 2001

Answers

i believe most, maybe all, DVD player can play VCDs. i just bought some VCDs from Shenzhen, China and it has no problem in my SONY DVD players. when i tried to purchase VCDs, i went to the big stores to avoid some ilegal copy issue and to check the cover for a sign DVD. so make sure to see the DVD sign on the VCD cover. the VCDs are even much cheaper in Shenzhen than those you saw in HK. the two cities are next to each other. by the way, with the mpeg encoding card i bought from China, i burned some VCDs on both CDR and CDRW by myself. none of them works with my SONY DVD player. but they are fine on some other DVD players. this is CDR or CDRW issue. the VCDs from stores use different media and should be compatible with any DVD players. i posted CDR/CDRW question here two days ago.

-- Chris Wang (cwang_98@yahoo.com), April 06, 2001.