[KLUG Members] Movies? Weird!!!

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>>If movies are going to
>>>be interrupted with a random Windows reboot, bring back the old film
>>>format!
>>You got free tickets afterward, right?  I'll take a blurp in projection in
>>order to get my $~8.00 back,  especially with most of the movies I've seen
>>recently.
>No.  I thought about it, but I figured the best I could get was tickets
>to another showing of the _same_ movie.  I don't like seeing ANY movie
>more than once, and wouldn't have used them anyway.

Nah, if you complain they give you free passes that are good for any show.  I've
 gotten lots of these.  Once just because I went up and told an employee I
thought the movie sucked.  Or maybe thats just in G.R. where they are accustomed
to dealing with really cheap and incredibly tenacious zondervaners.

>>>(or upgrade the projector to Linux! :)
>>It is illegal to play most DVDs on Linux.  At least without a hardware
>>decoder, and those aren't very common. And it seems obvious that they 
>>probably aren't using one.
>No, I think it's illegal to use/write non-licensed code to play DVD's.
>The OS (Linux) is immaterial to this.
>I'm sure if movie theaters wanted to use Linux, they could hire out
>programming for a legal copy of a DVD decoder on Linux.

You'd have to license the right to create a DVD decoder, which I thought was
more than $100k.  Thats pretty pricey, then you add the cost of developers.  And
how would the MPAA feel about theater's installing a "viral/cancerous" OS to
show movies?  Thats probably a bigger issue.

Does anyone know what became of LinDVD and their quest to make a legal DeCSS
enabled player? 

Do any laptops with DVD players feature a hardware decoder?

>And to answer the other question, yes I liked the movie.  It's been
>getting bad reviews, but I normally don't agree with most reviewers
>anyway.  This isn't the correct place for reviews/opinions about the
>actual movie, so let's not turn this thread into that.

I'm not a Trek fan, but I thought it was pretty good.  Better then it's recent
predecessors.