| Registered: June 23, 2007 |  Posts: 40 |
| | Posted: | | | | Has any one got any comments on the InterActual Player for the PC? I inserted Dreamcatcher in my PC's DVD drive and I was asked if I want to install the software.
If I did so, it would become the default player for DVD's on my PC. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Many DVD's come with DVD player software installed. Since I already had player software, I ignored/canceled it.
One of the reasons why I disabled the autorun feature. |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have a few DVDs that used the older PC Friendly player and from what I remember it was mostly useless bloatware. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 252 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's also wildly obsolete, a relic from the first days of DVD and DVDROMs when player software was fairly rare (and sometimes hardware based {looks at dusty box with retired Margi DVDtoGo kit}) and free options were few. I don't recall having seen an embedded player included on a DVD produced since around 2003...!  Wouldn't recommend letting this install or run on any modern OS, these were originally written with Win NT/98/ME/2000 in mind and could potentially do ill to Vista or 7, or at least disrupt other playback apps installed. |
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| Registered: June 23, 2007 | | Posts: 40 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks for that. I don't usually install unknown software, so as I hadn't heard of this, I thought that I would ask.
Dave |
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