pc dvd player wont play fox dvd's

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  1. nato1200

    nato1200 Member

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    i cant play 20th century fox dvd's, i.e. futurama, family guy, on my pc. it says cannot play the disc because i have a tv out enabled on my video card. even if i disable my tv out, it still wont play em(same error message). no other dvd's do this. i am using power dvd xp. has anyone figured out a way around this annoyance?

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    nato
     
    nato1200, Jul 28, 2003
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    Try usig WinDVD and see if you get the same problem. Its probably a copyright code built into Power DVD.
     
    Oriphus, Jul 29, 2003
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  3. Tosca

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    I have played 20th century fox movies on Power dvd with no probs. So it isn't the app.
     
    Tosca, Jul 29, 2003
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  4. JARUIZ

    JARUIZ Guest

    I had a very similar problem with all three Sopranos DVD box sets. While I had no problem with them in my set-top box player, my DVD-Rom drive in my computer had playback problems ranging from an all out refusal to play to scrambled video (kinda like looking at a PPV channel without it being decoded). I finally resolved the issue the only way that worked, I used Region-Free and used it's ability to turn off Macrovision. Once Macrovision was turned off, it plkauyed just fine. I think a lot of DVD's that were burned from TV show masters have this problem.
     
    JARUIZ, Sep 4, 2003
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