Playing DVDs on Windows and *nix

[James Knott]

meng-D1t3LT1mScs at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I was just watching a DVD-R movie on my PC.
> The cover in the video store warned that it was a DVD-R
> and that as long as the store player could play it and you could not,
> you would not get a refund.

My question is why is the video store selling or renting DVD-R to
customers?  Sounds to me like it might be a pirate copy.
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml