You know, looking at the ITWORKS website, it says

"you can read this CD in your DVD player OR your computer CD-ROM"

which means this is a video CD. Not a DVD.

Correct me if I am wrong, but a video CD does not have the same resolution as a DVD. I have several VCDs I bought from Malaysia (no...not pirate stuff..totally legal TV shows) and the quality is no better than VHS. I don't know the numbers, but I will venture to guess that DVD has the capability of holding more info on each disc (more scan lines, pixels, whatever) and would have a much better quality picture than VCD.

Also, VCD does not have the ability to use a menu system. They cannot be authored like a DVD.

Just becuase it can be read in a CD-ROM does not make it a CD-ROM either. VCDs can all be seen on computers with CD-ROMs, so I have a feeling you won't get better resolution on your monitor either.

If I am right, and these are VCDs, 49.99 or even 19.99 is a huge ripoff! 6 to 8 bucks would be more like IF the CD had rare or interesting patterns on it like old Soviet patterns and stuff like that...

The Joe Kane DVD as well as the AVIA DVD (true DVDs) have hundreds of high-rez patterns on them and can actually help you calibrate your monitor/TV !