I have a Philips CDI-490. It is a commercial machine that was used to play audio CD-is. I have read at another website that this model did have a video cartridge already installed. Recently I have found several websites selling VCDs from Japan and Hong Kong that I would like to see. I don't have a DVD player so I was wondering if this machine would play VCDs. Thanks

-- Christopher Wellington (Maynard_G_Krebs@webtv.net), June 06, 2000

Answers

yes, if you have the digital video cartridge, and the VCD's have the CD-i application burned on them.

-- scot virnoche (scot.virnoche@med.ge.com), June 06, 2000.

The CDi-490 hasa built-in DVC, so it can play VCD's (and games which require a digital video cartridge) without any extra installations... it plays them right out of the box : )

-- Steve (ickyptang@hotmail.com), September 24, 2003.