Re: Where's the built in OSX newsreader?


"TheLetterK" <theletterk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2kz3f.31$MG.10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> John Slade wrote:
> > "Sandman" <mr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:mr-FAB8CB.23350612102005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >>In article <O_SdnQElodYK6NDeRVn-pQ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >> "MuahMan" <muahman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>>>I can't find it the Apps folder!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Where is the built in DVD player in Windows? You know, the kind of
> >>>>>>application that a user would actually expect to find in a operating
> >>>>>>system in 2005.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Windows Media Player
> >>>>
> >>>>...can't play DVD's natively, einstein.
> >>>
> >>>Oh yeah, you are busted.
> >>>
> >>>I figured i'd give it a try. Popped in Gladiator and load and
behold....
> >>>started playing automatically.... in WMP. You a fucking idiot Sandman.
> >>>Evidently every Dell that ships comes with thte Cyberlink DVD player
> >>>installed. WRONG again.
> >>>
> >>>Now where is the NNTP application on this Mac?????
> >>
> >>Were you born an idiot or did you have to work hard to become one?
> >>
> >>WMP doesn't play DVD's natively, period. You need to purchase a DVD
player
> >>which will install codecs for WMP to use (and most also provide a better
> >>interface to playing DVDs than crummy WMP).
> >>
> >>You seem to have been using Windows as long as you've been using Macs.
> >
> >
> > Any PC you buy today will have the DVD decoder included in the video
> > card drivers.
> Unless you use an Nvidia card.

I don't know of ANY PC seller with or without an Nvidia card that won't
play DVDs outof the box. Can you name one? The only way to have no drivers
or software is to buy OEM cards that are mean to be included in systems that
will later have the sofware insalled via download.

>
> > The point is moot. I can't think of ANY PC with a video card
> > that doesn't play DVDs out of the box.
> The one I'm currently using, the EPIA box sitting in the living room...
> All of my PCs have DVD-ROM drives now. Only the Macs had DVD playback
> 'out of the box'.

Then you have a rare computer and you shouldn't buy from them. It's very
rare for any computer not to play DVDs out of the box. Even Linux boxes will
play decoded DVDs out of the box. Apple just installs the software for you.
This is not anything exceptional or great, lots of companies install the
software for you.

John


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