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I own the new Samsung, and the VLM lightshow is worth the price of admission. Not to mention pan-and-zoom, P-strobe, etc, etc. There's a NUON dev discussion group here. We're all anxiously awaiting the dev kit. Go buy one ($188 at Best Buy). Don't forget to buy a controller too, since they don't come packed with one.

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OT to Troll, On-Topic to Lord Omlette: I agree with what you are saying. We'll have to wait and see how good the movie is. I suspect it will be compelling enough that the lack of interactivity will more than be made up for by the story, theme, characters, and special effects. Plus, the movie will be fully Dolby, if not THX, sound on a giant screen with huge speakers and comfy seats (well, I guess it depends on where you see it).

Another thought, Dragon's Lair and Dragon's Lair II: TimeWarp were released again as DvD's by Digital Leisure Inc. These two discs contain the whole movie tracks from the original two games. You can play interactively from your regular DVD player hooked up to your TV using the DVD remote control as the joystick. No game machine or console necessary. It works using just your DVD player (hopefully purchased before the MPAA started getting nasty).

So the idea is that an interactive DVD version of the movie could be made (ot: hey let's create open-source versions of DVDs sans license fees called ODVs) whose action sequences the viewer controls in the comfort of their own home using the remote. Add on the NUON chip to your player & things could really get rocking. Someone want to add to this idea?

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Yep. PIII/Athlon are too big, too expensive, and do too much. A games console doesn't need one. What it needs is a good media processing chip. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and suggest they may be using a Nuon. It has all the attributes needed for a good games console, and in particular, should be priced very cheaply.

Yep. PIII/Athlon are too big, too expensive, and do too much. A games console doesn't need one. What it needs is a good media processing chip. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and suggest they may be using a Nuon. It has all the attributes needed for a good games console, and in particular, should be priced very cheaply.

Check out NUON (um, huge amounts of Flash in the Website, not my fault though.) an idea that may have taken too long to develop (considering that the Playstation 2 will also play DVDs). It was an interesting idea though, I wonder how Dragon's Lair would've worked with it.

So, since it can play audio CDs, DVD Movies and video games, it may be that they intend this to be their ultimate home media player.

Why are people complaining? The whole thing can be summed up like this:

They broke the law. =(

Bad bad hackers!!! Shame on you!!! ;)

Clear enough? So stop whining about it and start finding other solutions. Kudos to the posts that have so far offered solutions.

Here's another one:
1) Find a group of knowledgable linux coders.
2) Approach a dvd player company and offer your services to them with the purpose of writing a Linux SoftDVD player.
3) Sign the necessary Non Disclosure Agreements
4) If necessary, distribute binary only versions of the codecs etc. Like what the xanim guy does.

It may not be open source, but at least it gets the process moving. And gives us something to use. Until all DVD players switch over to using the nuon chip for their interfaces.


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I hear you. Now that most of the movies I like are on DVD I've been keeping my tape purchases to the $6.99 cheapies in anticipation of going digital, too. I really want a DVD player, but I've been waiting for one with the Nuon chipset by VMLabs to come into production. If Nintendo beats them to market, well then I guess I'll go with Nintendo.