On 01/05/14 17:43, jdd wrote:
Le 01/05/2014 09:23, Basil Chupin a �crit :
Firstly, I did have to purchase a copy of Windows 7 Professional - and it cost less than price which I was paying for S.u.S.E. way back at about version #6 or #7. And this was when a $ was worth a $.
full version (not update) cost much more than that, but usually one only pay the computer and oem windows price. computers without windows are usually �80 cheaper (when OS is sold separately)
OK, I see that I will have to make it clearer. I paid for the FULL VERSION and not an upgrade - I didn't have anything to upgrade to begin with. The cost was as I already mentioned.
Secondly, there is no "key" to the Bd discs which comes with Windows that I am
aware of. (But I have to admit that I have never used the Media Player [don't think that I even have it installed] in Windows so cannot definitively confirm this; will check the next time I boot-into Windows to see if I do have Media Player installed.)
may not be in the player, but come with the hardware, like a codec or inside the codec. It's only a very small fee per BD reader. Fluendo did some paying for some kind of codecs, but few people seems to care about BD.
If that is the case - that the Bd player may include the payment for the Bd codecs - then why shouldn't VLC for Linux not be able to play Bd discs if this ability has already been paid for?
Do you know there is *no* authoring application to make own BD in Linux? I *have* to use Windows to do this (thanksfully I can write data BD with mp4)!!
So. Your point being........?
Thirdly, see my other responses: I am happy to pay some annual fee to be able
to view Bd discs on Linux.
However, I do NOT accept the fact that some money grabbing enterprises have the right to impose these restrictions on the use of media especially when they pay exorbitant fees - and make exorbitant profits - for producing some B-grade movie which they then release on a DVD or a Bd disc.
BC
I fully agree with you. These closed codecs should never be standard, but this is out of our reach :-(
Why out of our reach? We are the consumers and WE buy the products. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.0 & kernel 3.14.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org