"Del Cecchi" wrote in message
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Tom Francis wrote:
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:28:07 -0000, "thunder"
wrote:


On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:44:26 +0000, JoeSpareBedroom wrote:



Two months ago, I did a reformat/reinstall of XP Pro on my desktop
machine. WMP plays DVDs. I did nothing special to make it happen.

If I'm not mistaken, I think the problem lies with MPEG-2 being
proprietary. Somebody has to pay licensing fees to the patent holders,
via the Moving Pictures Experts Group.


Ah - that explains it then.

So shareware wouldn't be an option.

Oh well - off to purchase the appropriate player thingy doer.

I think you are supposed to pay for shareware also.... You just get to
try before buy and buy is on honor system.

What a theory! Is that why it says "Free to try, $29.95 to buy" at
downloads.com? I thought they were kidding.