What is the difference between a video DVD and a DVD-ROM?
You may have noticed that some of our training products are available as either DVDs or DVD-ROMs; however you may be unclear on what the actual differences are between the two. When you see a product referred to as being available on DVD, this means that it’s a standard video disc, very similar to the commercial movie discs that you get from the video rental store. These discs contain regular broadcast NTSC video (the North American video standard), which are designed to play on a standard set-top DVD player for viewing on a television set. You can always watch our video DVDs with a regular DVD/TV setup, but if your computer supports video DVD playback, you may also watch our training on your computer desktop. DVD-ROMs, on the other hand, are only viewable on a computer. A DVD-ROM is physically the same type of disc as a video DVD, but does not contain broadcast video and is not viewable on a standard DVD/TV setup. Instead, our DVD-ROMs contain a computer program which runs on Macintos
