You would think, but from what I found when researching why mine couldn't play CD-Rs, it is actually VERY common for a DVD Player to fail to play CD-Rs, but plays a CD-RW just fine. So common, that apparently, it is the norm for a DVD Player that can play home brew VCD's will only work with CD-RW, unless is specifically mentions that it works with CD-R. At least this was true a few years ago when I was looking for info. And beyond research, in my informal polling of friends and their DVD players (mix of old and new models)... I found the fact holds true. Out of about a dozen DVD players I have ready access to (ie: I can go to someone's house, and try a disc). One could not play any kind of VCD. Of those that could, I think there were 3 that only played commercial stamped VCDs, the rest could play home brew VCDs. In all cases where they could play home brew VCDs, all could play CD-RW, and 2 could play CD-Rs. The two that could play CD-Rs both specifically mentioned that they handled CD-R media. One was a multi-format, multi-region unit, and the other was a brand new one that even did MP3 audio CDs (which was kind of cool). And interestingly with one player, it had problems playing discs created by my computer, but no problems with one created with my VCD burner (it could play either, but the computer made one wasn't recognized every time... sometimes you had to eject the disc, and reinsert it a few times before the DVD player would accept the disc). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>