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From: Mike
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:52

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On 02/01/2012 6:16 PM, Bruce wrote:
> Received a DVD at Christmas titled "Yes Sir - Jack
> Nicholas And His Historic 1986 Masters Win".
>
> It won't play on my TV and it's not the first time as
> I rented a DVD of 'Planet of the Apes' and it wouldn't
> play either (although I got a different message).
>
> I just tried to play it on my PC and it roots me to the
> Microsoft page saying that I have to buy a 'fix' or
> upgrade to 'Windows 7' (from XP).
>
> All my own DVD's play ok on the TV.
>
> I just went into my Ubuntu partition and it plays there
> ok - but I've had no sound in Ubuntu for some time.
>
> I'm getting to old to learn new tricks. Maybe I should
> seek professional advice.
>
> Anyone ?

I have XP pro on an old notebook, and Window's Media Player 10 runs most 
DVDs fine. I had a few that didn't play with Media Player, and they 
worked fine with Cyberlink PowerDVD.

-- 
Mike

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