[ale] DVD playback

[Jim Philips]

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On Tuesday 30 December 2003 07:59 pm, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> I am confused.
> I have a new DVD manufactured by Universal Studios.
> It plays just fine on my Linux box using xine.
>
> It won't play in the DVD player hooked to the TV set!
> It starts up just fine and gets me to the base menu,
> but when I try to "play" the movie, I get an error
> message.
>
> Anybody have an idea what might be wrong here?
> The dedicated DVD player is not new -- it's perhaps
> seven or eight years old. But it works just fine on other
> movies.
> Am I facing some sort of copy protection scheme?

There are some disc/player combinations out there that are just incompatible. 
Since I bought my player in 2001, I have only encountered one disc that 
wouldn't play on it. But that one just refused. I took it down to the rental 
place, Movies Worth Watching, and they popped it in their player, which 
handled it just fine. I don't know what the problem was. It''s rare enough 
that I didn't think about it anymore.
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