What is DVD playback?

Given that every Wii has a DVD drive inside, why did Nintendo choose to restrict DVD playback? Given that it would make it more competitive with the Xbox or Playstation, one would think DVD functionality would be an easy way to add value to the system...

on a compatible player. my dvd player is panasonic and it will playback on it but wont playback on another brand. how come?

Some of my purchased DVD movies are beginning to have playback problems. Somewhere near the middle of the movie the playback will begin to stutter and breakup, then pause a few times, ...show more

I've burned a few projects onto dvd, and they play quite well on pc and PS3. Putting them in a regular dvd player comes up with various read errors Any ideas?

Particularly on Divx DVD Players. I've got some High Quality video to encode, but I don't want to waste a dvd if it'll playback on a regular CD with the same read speed. ...show more

I'm looking at a DVD player that says it has Divx playback. Does that mean I could just burn a divx file to a blank disc and it would play the file?

I used Dazzle80 to copy some old VHS tapes from family doings,I can view them on my DVD player (Phillips brand) but other people cannot play them on thiers players, I rendered them in MPEJ mode and they play fine on my player , but others cannot view...

i want put cd on dvd blank for 6 hour music, i have cyber home model 1600 dvd recorder

Please list the procedure and settings. I want to maintain the original picture quality, etc but also benefit from the smallest file size possible preferably as near to 1.5 Gb. What file size can I expect for a DVD which has a run-time of approx 1.5...