From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 18:40:57 EST
A DVD player comes with w2k, but its crap..
a 1 second pause for each 5 to 10 seconds of DVD movie play..
this is, of course, the out of the box w2k MS DVD player..
and with the enhanced video adapter..
"Steve C." wrote:
> Even if you have a DVD player and EVA you will still
> need the software DVD player such as PowerDVD or
> WinDVD to play it, unless it comes with W2K.
>
> --- Mark Bell <bytehead_at_bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> > Only the 770ED (95495AU) came with the Enhanced
> > Video
> > Adapter as standard. The 770 (95491AU, 954932U),
> > 770X (95497BU, 95497AU, 954972U, 954971U),
> > and 770Z (95498BU, 95498AU, 954982U, 954981U)
> > all came WITHOUT the enhanced adapter. To
> > complicate matters even more, early adapters
> > only worked with the 770, and not the 770X
> > or 770Z. I was always perplexed as to why
> > IBM didn't include the EVA as standard issue
> > for the X and Z models with DVD drives
> > Comparisons aside, the Z series of machines
> > can handle rudimentary software decoding
> > but as always for best effects, I recommend
> > the Margi card or EVA.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > At 04:37 PM 02/28/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Mike,
> > >
> > >>>Windows 2K will not do DVD unless
> > >it is hardware accelerated, or at least that
> > >is what a friend has told me, more
> > >than once... so I believe it requires the
> > >enhanced video adapter. I'm surprised that
> > >the model you have does not include it, I have
> > >a 9549/5AU and it came with everything in it....<<
> > >
> > >Well that's one of my questions. Does the 9549 8AU
> > have the Video Adapter
> > >or not? Unlike my TP770, for which I bought the
> > optional Enhanced Video
> > >Adapter, it does not have any video outputs/inputs
> > under the battery slot.
> > >Does that mean it does not have the adapter?
> > >
> > >-Bill
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: William Armstrong
> > [mailto:warmstrong_at_waldinc.com]
> > >> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 2:22 PM
> > >> To: ThinkPad List
> > >> Subject: Clean install of W2K & DVD drive
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> To all,
> > >>
> > >> I have done a clean install of W2K on a TP770Z
> > (9549 8AU).
> > >> Everything works
> > >> quite well if not better than Win'98SE, except
> > that I can no
> > >> longer play DVD
> > >> movies (as a side note: I just got a DVD copy of
> > the "Everest"
> > >> movie that I
> > >> am keen to watch). Does anyone know why I cannot
> > play DVD's? Following the
> > >> conversations at the TP770 forum on the IBM
> > website I am getting the
> > >> impression that I need, but do not now have, the
> > necessary
> > >> software decoder
> > >> that was included with the TP770Z Win'98
> > preinstall. Does anyone know if
> > >> this is the case? Or, does W2K just not support
> > the DVD drive in the TP770
> > >> unless one has the optional Enhanced Video
> > Adaptor?
> > >>
> > >> Bill Armstrong
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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