DVDs
Your system also allows you to play DVDs; however, due to licensing concerns, playback is limited to unencrypted disks. Unfortunately, this rules out a vast majority of the DVD movies you buy or rent at your local video shop and leaves you with a rather limited choice of movies that you can play on your computer. Of course, DVDs created on personal computers (such as the DVD slideshows that people create these days with applications such as iDVD on the Mac) pose no problem. Given the limited offerings in the unencrypted DVD world, you will no doubt want to enable your system to play back the encrypted variety, so you will learn to do so later in this chapter.
Can I Play Foreign DVDs?
Your computer can play DVDs of any broadcast standard (NTSC, ...
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