# Playing VCDs?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-vcds/173360>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 6, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-vcds/173360 "2003-05-06T10:48:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![JAPrufrock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@JAPrufrock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JAPrufrock)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-vcds/173360/1 "2003-05-06T10:48:06Z")

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Is there a way to get my PS2 to play VCDs? Or my bottom-of-the-line DVD player?

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-vcds/173360/2 "2003-05-06T10:53:15Z")

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PS2: No.

Cheap DVD player: Possibly. What brand/model is it?

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-vcds/173360/3 "2003-05-06T16:37:49Z")

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PS2 won’t play them period.

Play them on your computer with a free program from [download.com](http://download.com)

You can’t make a dvd player play them if its not made to. Dvd players have to pay to use vcd & some are cheap & won’t.

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**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-vcds/173360/4 "2003-05-06T16:53:50Z")

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Depends on your DVD player. I deliberately bought one that plays pretty much every format a DVD player CAN play, so I can watch my VCD’s on it.