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Commercial DVD Software Comes to Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the years-too-late dept.

timekillerj writes "Turbolinux launched a new version of it's Linux distribution today. The key feature is the first commercial DVD player, provided by Cyberlink. PowerDVD for Linux supports menu navigation, Dolby Digital sound, subtitles, and more."

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  1. compare! by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Old and Busted: DeCSS
    New Hotness: Commercial DVD software

  2. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a typo, it's supposed to say $699.00.

    Darl McBride

  3. Re:eh? by MrMr · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have a /C:\ direcory at my work-pc filled with all these silly folders, especially created for the friendly document-cleanout crew that comes to visit us once a year. You should see their faces if you select the whole contents and backspace...

  4. Re:Ask and you shall receive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh, thank you great god MPAA, for deigning to place the foot of your bribed politicians on our necks and step down hard, and then allow us to pay to have them let up on the pressure a little. A person not paying much attention (aka goldspider) might almost think we still had a free country.

  5. Re:Ask and you shall receive? by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 5, Funny
    Linux users aren't going to be happy unless it's free (speech) and free (beer).
    You underestimate us. We'll still complain about it being a ripoff of commercial software, whine about the GUI toolkit used, complain about how bloated and slow the software is, insinuate that it's a tricky ploy to gather personal information, demand that the company provide free phone support, and then run off and create a dozen sourceforge projects to "clone" the program.
    --

    How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
  6. Re:Mplayer? Xine by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 2, Funny
    Or are you talking about somthing else?

    Something else besides keed, anyway.

  7. Re:Good and bad news by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Funny
    If it's not broken, don't fix it, right?

    Yup. definitely not a real geek...

    --
    I am TheRaven on Soylent News
  8. Re:What? by dillee1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is the commercial and region lock that value added the product to $69.
    OSS player crippled off those features and thus avail for free.

  9. Re:commercial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I crack my CSS keys with a DeCSS reflector beacon that is orbiting my CPU core in hyperspace. It doesn't underlie the law of man, not even that of physics as we know it. To enable this, compile xine with the --enable-hyperspace and --legalize-it options. My right to believe in this procedure is guaranteed by the NUTS act of 2004.