On 10/16/2005 01:50 PM, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 12:41 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
On 16/10/05, Ken Schneider
wrote: <snip>
Guys, I'm sorry but I keep hearing this myth bandied about left, right and centre. MS Windows 'will' play DVD's out of the box with no extra software.
I should've mentioned this, too. Yes, NT 5.1 (a.k.a. XP) does - out of the box - allow for DVD playback. You may get a bluescreen but you get DVD playback.
And you can play unencrypted DVD's out of the box with linux as well.
I wonder what will happen when unencrypted DVDs are no longer available? I also wonder about the chances of a lawsuit against one of these SOBs for violation of consumer rights to produce an archival copy? They might sit up and take notice, if they lost such a suit, and had to ship out one free copy to everyone on the planet who purchased the DVD release of some huge box-office hit :)