Using Software to Play DVDs on CDRW Drive?

[richklein]

Hi all,

I have a friend with a dell latitude laptop. It has a CDRW drive & he wants to play DVD movies on it. Is he outta luck or could he just get some software to make a DVD movie play on the CDRW drive?

Thanks,
Rich

[DarkArctic]

DVD's have to be read by a much smaller laser than CD's. That's how they hold so much data. CD-ROM and CD-RW drives do not have this smaller laser so having software won't help one bit.

-DarkArctic

[srs]

Exactly. I investigated this for a while and figured out that the data is written at what I gather are multiple depths. CDRW's can't read them.