CompuServe Messages

Dan, The answer is no. For now anyway. As Rich said, the fact that so many formats *physically* use Compact Discs as storage media (because they're cheap and large), doesn't necessarily mean they're meant to be compatible. Floppy disks are a smaller example of this: it's like asking for a floppy drive which allowed use of all computer disks. To do that, you'd also need each one of the different target computers 🙂 That said, I think that it's possible that eventually CD-I playback capability will be built into CD-ROM drives much as external audio playback capability was later added. It's just a matter of consumer desire and retail cost… and the hardware cost will drop as Motorola continues towards their goal of putting the core CD-I functions onto one chip (predicted for 1994 or so). Which still leaves an external 1-meg of RAM and probably an MPEG decoder. best – kevin