Commercial DVD Software Comes to Linux

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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[TedCheshireAcad]

Old and Busted: DeCSS
New Hotness: Commercial DVD software

Re:What?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Darl McBride

Re:eh?

[MrMr]

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...

Re:Ask and you shall receive?

[aardvarkjoe]

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.

Re:Mplayer? Xine

[Waffle Iron]

Or are you talking about somthing else?

Something else besides keed, anyway.

Re:Good and bad news

[TheRaven64]

If it's not broken, don't fix it, right?

Yup. definitely not a real geek...

Re:What?

[dillee1]

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.