WTF?! DVD Related...

Ok, so I don't have a DVD Burner at all, just a regular CD Burner, 52x rewritable. Now I have Nero because when I ordered all the shit to put my computer together it came with the burner, I went to something called Photo and Video, then to Make Video CD, now I figured this would just work to watch video's on computers, but when stuck in a DVD player it play's the video's, how does this work? I'm not burning DVD's, but yet they play in the DVD player? Very odd, leads me to think that I saved a lot of money on a DVD burner.

Video CDs are pretty old, actually. They didn't really catch on outside of Asia, but most DVD players will play them.

You only "saved money" if you can't tell the difference between Video CD quality and DVD quality.

See also, Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_CD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVCD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video#DVD-Video

Video CDs are pretty old, actually. They didn't really catch on outside of Asia, but most DVD players will play them.

You only "saved money" if you can't tell the difference between Video CD quality and DVD quality.

See also, Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_CD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVCD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video#DVD-Video


Yeah, this quality isn't the greatest, but watching it on a 7" portable doesn' really bother me. I'm not much of a computer genius so that's what I was quite suprised at it working. Thanks for the info also.