Sega DVD

The Sega DVD (known in Japan and Europe as the Mega DVD ) is an add-on for the Sega CD released in 1995, which is the same year the DVD format was released.

Information
This add-on allows users to play DVDs in their Sega CD. The audio then gets converted into CD-audio. The image gets squished into 256x80, then it gets squished back to 256x224 (though 320x224 is commonly used). There are only 16 colors (with the transparent color being black). The color palette gets updated each frame.

Trivia



 * Recent DVDs are incompatible with this add-on, as they are in HD, and that would take a long time to render and convert, alongside breaking the limits of the Sega CD.
 * The DVD menus are replaced with simple menus due to technical limitation.
 * This add-on was released late in the console's lifespan as Sega had just launched the Saturn.
 * This was commonly used by kids when they got their DVD player taken away back in the 90s.