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 | | The aim was to provide a format capable of delivering their content on an interactive medium that was inexpensive to replicate, supported full-screen, full-motion video, and which worked on a wide range of different platforms PCs, televisions, and games or multimedia platforms. |
 | | The degree of standardisation is such that a VCD can be played on almost all standalone DVD Players, on games platforms - such as Playstation, Sega and Dreamcast - provided they're equipped with the necessary add-ons and on DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drives with the help of a software based decoder/player. |
 | | However, fuelled by the increasing availability of affordable CD Rewritable drives and their ever cheaper media, other formats were to emerge - some official "standards", others not - that provided consumers with alternative solutions for distributing movie content in formats that offered the combination of quality and low cost. |
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