dvd or cd-rom

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I was wondering if anyone knew the difference between dvd or cd-rom as far as game play or anything related to that? Is one better than the other? thanks for the help.

Community Founder Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 2530

Not totally sure but I think its because the DVD can hold so much more information than the CD ROM as the CD Rom will hold about 700mb compared to 4.5gb of the DVD etc.
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|2es-mrix

Joined: Aug 14, 2005 Posts: 29 Location: Devon, South West

hi there

well...for starters, DVD rom users are probably about 60-70%+ of all computer users nowadays. They are ALOT faster than a CD-ROM and are becoming commonly used for game storage as games are becoming much larger than ever now. If you are wondering which to buy, i would without a doubt stick with a DVD-ROM as you can buy a decent, fast one for about £30-40 now.

Although you can buy a CD-ROM for about £5-10 now, they are considerably slower than a DVD-ROM and you will not be able to play a majority of the newly realeased games on that format as games are now, as i said, more commanly, on DVD disks format nowadays.

Basically, the difference is all about space and speed, a DVD can hold upto 8.5GB of data on each disk and buying a DVD-ROM will enable you to install and run that disk with all that data whereas a CD-ROM drive will be unable to cope with all that data :*(.

hope this helps (sorry about the confusing way i write)

regards

Dave aka bush

Joined: Oct 01, 2005 Posts: 20 Location: sunny scotland

yeah dvd is the way to go. if you really wanna push the boat out buy a dual layer bout£70 though!!!
p.s cool avatar crewey