Posted by Jay G. on 06/18/06 21:23

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:40:16 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 06:22:26 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:
>
>>No, you couldn't. DVD required the purchase of new hardware, there were no
>>way to upgrade something you already had when it first came out. Sometimes
>>it could play on something new you were going to buy *anyway*, like a
>>videogame system or new computer, but it was still a new purchase.
>
> There were NO software players at the time DVD was released, and the
> ONLY player for a PC at the time was a creative labs job that REQUIRED
> a hardware decoder card as well.

None of that contradicts what I wrote.

-Jay

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