I recently reformated a computer for my mom and in the process of installing all the hardware, software, and updating drivers I was testing to see if they worked. So I pop in a brand new Return of the King, extended edition dvd into my drive. Auto run starts; an install app comes up prompting me to install a special program to run the dvd. I close as I always have with that sort of thing. I try running the dvd in Windows Media Player. No go. Quicktime? Nothing. DivX? Nada. WinDVD?
I give up. I reload the dvd and install the software (interActual Player 2.0) that came with it figuring this has to work; it came with the dvd. I finish the install, press play, and what happens? I got an error message. It says that my video decoder is unsupported. I think maybe I need to restart before it will work. Same error message. Great. I try updating drivers for everything. Still not working.
I click the “Help Online” button. I wade through the poorly designed website and find the error message I got and an explanation of what it means. The somewhat vague explanation tells me that either my software or hardware is not supported by interActual and that I won’t be able to play the dvd. Isn’t that special? Thanks for wasting my time.
I tried another dvd and it worked no problem in WMP, Quicktime, and DivX. Then I tried Return of the King on another machine and it worked fine. Why the hell do they make a dvd and provide a specific player for that doesn’t have full support? This whole anti-pirating thing is ridiculous. I’m sure there are bootleg/ripped versions of up the movie that I could download anyways. Why not just let me watch the movie in WMP or Quicktime?
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