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On Tuesday 03 January 2012 00:16, Bruce conveyed the following to 
alt.os.linux.ubuntu...

> 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).

Last time I had that happen to me, it was because the lens of my living 
room DVD player was dirty.  I'm a smoker, so...

> 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).

Upgrade to GNU/Linux. ;-)

> All my own DVD's play ok on the TV.

Hmm...  A region-related problem then?  Shouldn't happen with DVDs you 
purchase or rent in your region, but perhaps they've been importing 
their stock from another region?

> I just went into my Ubuntu partition and it plays there
> ok - but I've had no sound in Ubuntu for some time.

Are all the codecs installed and do you have all your channels unmuted?

> I'm getting to old to learn new tricks. Maybe I should
> seek professional advice.

My first clue would be that those disks do not play on your TV-connected 
DVD player, while all your other DVDs play fine there.  So that would be 
an indication that there is something "not right" with these new DVDs 
themselves.

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= Aragorn =
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)