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Re: dvd drive on 770
>Here's my question: Would a DVD drive also read standard CD-ROM disks?
>Or would you have to get a CD-ROM drive as well. The high-end model
>has the CD-ROM drive as an option along with DVD.
Hello,
From the information I seen it is not a "given" that any DVD player
will play CDs or CD-Roms. One piece of information I read recently is
that DVD uses a different color laser that cannot read CD-R disks.
DVD drives that can read CDs use two lasers (one for DVD, one for
regular CD).
73 Eric Cottrell ecottrell@doble.com