[KLUG Members] Movies? Weird!!!

[Bruce Smith]

> >>Do any laptops with DVD players feature a hardware decoder?
> >How can you tell?  
> 
> Beats me,  all I know if what I've read.  I don't own a DVD drive,  I've
> been waiting to see how the whole DVD/DeCSS/MPAA thing shakes out.  I
> don't want to own a drive I can't use.

I use mine all the time.  I read CD's.  I burn CD's.  ...  :-)

> >I have a DVD/CDRW combo drive in my laptop, 
> >but I have no idea how to use the DVD part.
> 
> Not even after Wes' fine presentation?

You were there too!

Actually, it was a very good presentation, and I was going to give it a
try.  Until I realized I needed one piece of hardware that I don't own.
A DVD to play on the stupid thing!   :-)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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