Posted by Phat Bytestard on 07/31/06 06:17

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:12:00 -0400, Derek Janssen
<ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> Gave us:

>Er...No, it isn't:
>You could play the first DVD's on your computer.

Not until the first DVD drives for PCs *with* hardware decoder
boards came out (the Creative drive comes to mind), which was long
after the format made its debut. At the time, there were NO DVD
players that used a software decoder.

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