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From: slim@amsgate.ams.com.sg (Lim Sau Tsien)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Sony CD-ROM SDU-33A
Date: 7 Mar 1994 16:06:42 +0800
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I am thinking of getting a Sony SDU-33A drive for my PC. But I would
like to find out wheather the drive can read CD-ROM XA disc such as 
Photo-CD and Video CD. I have read the Feb 22 issue of PC Magazine but got
a conflicting info. On the comparison chart, SDU-33A was indicated as
not supporting CDROM-XA. However, when reading the passage, it said 
that both the Sony SDU-33A and SDU-531 can read Photo CD and XA disc. 
I am really confuse. 
About the CD-I comparison chart, what does it mean by not supporting 
CD-I standard? I though the undelying architecture of CD-I is the
CD-DA (Red Book) format and if a drive can read the CD-DA sectors than
it can also read a CD-I sectors.

slim...
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Lim, Sau-Tsien
AV/Information Research Center
National/Panasonic
email:slim@ams.com.sg