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Kai Ponte

16 Oct 2005 16 Oct '05

19:41

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On 16/10/05, Ken Schneider wrote:

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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. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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Ken Schneider

16 Oct 16 Oct

19:50

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On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 12:41 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:

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On 16/10/05, Ken Schneider wrote:

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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. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

Darryl Gregorash

17 Oct 17 Oct

06:17

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On 10/16/2005 01:50 PM, Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 12:41 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:

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On 16/10/05, Ken Schneider wrote:

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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 :)

James Knott

12:14

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Darryl Gregorash wrote:

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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 :)

What really annoys me, is the region "feature". What happens to someone who builds a large DVD collection and then moves to another part of the world? As soon as he buys a local player, his collection is worthless and his old player might not be usable at the new location. There should be a time limit on the region restrictions, so that after perhaps 2 years, the region setting expires.

Basil Chupin

15:44

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Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 12:41 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:

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On 16/10/05, Ken Schneider wrote:

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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.

Which is BS. If you could I wouldn't be asking the question. Cheers. -- Don't argue with an idiot, people may not see the difference.

Ken Schneider

22:49

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On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 01:44 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 12:41 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:

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On 16/10/05, Ken Schneider wrote:

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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.

Which is BS. If you could I wouldn't be asking the question.

Cheers.

But I have watched -unencrypted- DVD's out of the box. They are a few years old probably with an older format, without dvdcss encryption. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

Basil Chupin

18 Oct 18 Oct

12:04

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Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 01:44 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 12:41 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:

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On 16/10/05, Ken Schneider wrote:

<snip>

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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.

Which is BS. If you could I wouldn't be asking the question.

Cheers.

But I have watched -unencrypted- DVD's out of the box. They are a few years old probably with an older format, without dvdcss encryption.

I have a DVD which I tried to play after installing SuSE 10 which I know is not encrypted and SuSE failed to play it using the thing called kaffeine. After your message I tried to play it again just to make sure I wasn't wrong and SuSE/kaffeine cannot play it. The DVD is The Missionary with Michael Palin and Maggie Smith (1982). Cheers. -- Don't argue with an idiot, people may not see the difference.

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Basil Chupin
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