Posted by Doug Jacobs on 04/14/06 23:28

In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Joshua Zyber <jzyber@mind-nospam-spring.com> wrote:
> "Doug Jacobs" <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
> news:123t8vdro6cdo11@corp.supernews.com...
> > The next-gen players will be backwards compatible with CDs and DVDs.
> > I
> > don't know about things like CDR or DVD+/-R[W].

> Blu-Ray players are not compatible with CDs, though they are compatible
> with DVDs.

I thought that the laser for DVDs could read CDs, only the spacing of the
pits (data) is different between the two?

Or, are you saying that blu-ray players don't have 2 different laser
assemblies? (but then, it still boggles my mind how you could read DVDs
but not CDs?)

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