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wireFrame9 · 02-27-2002, 08:07 PM

A lot of people complain because they can't play the DVD-Rom content on their MACs, so my question is; how do you define DVD-Rom content??

As far as I know... a copy of the movie's website, two or three outstanding shockwave games, 2 or 3 dozens of HTML files containing Bios, interviews, etc. & some extra trailers encoded in QuickTime format will make a DVD-Rom content that could be criticised to be the best one ever made, right?

So, what's the problem? If we checked the above we will find that all the content is basilly FLASH, SHOCKWAVE, HTML and QuickTime files. Is the problem that there's no FLASH or SHOCKWAVE plug-in for MAC? I really don't know but I don't see a big problem.

Assuming there're no such plug-ins, if one simply made about 50 HTML pages written using JavaScript/DHTML/VBScript and embeded some QT movies and QR-VRs in those pages then embeded these whole package in an executable as a webpage won't it be called DVD-Rom content???

Another example, Tomb Raider DVD; it's the demo for TR5. So what's the problem here if we simply put another copy of the demo but not a Win, a MAC version??

I know I'm missing something, but whatever it's, I don't think that what I said above is impossible to do...

Hollow Man · 02-27-2002, 08:35 PM

For the Phantom Menace DVD, you need to have the Interactual Player running in order to get to the special website which has a special trailer for Attack of the Clones. Since this player does not run on the Mac, those folks could not see the trailer.

A few weeks later Lucasfilm made a special area of starwars.com so that Mac users could see the trailer. But as far as I know, they still can't access the special website (dvd.starwars.com).

-HM

02-27-2002, 08:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
wireFrame9 Supporting Actor Join Date: Feb 2002	InterActual A lot of people complain because they can't play the DVD-Rom content on their MACs, so my question is; how do you define DVD-Rom content?? As far as I know... a copy of the movie's website, two or three outstanding shockwave games, 2 or 3 dozens of HTML files containing Bios, interviews, etc. & some extra trailers encoded in QuickTime format will make a DVD-Rom content that could be criticised to be the best one ever made, right? So, what's the problem? If we checked the above we will find that all the content is basilly FLASH, SHOCKWAVE, HTML and QuickTime files. Is the problem that there's no FLASH or SHOCKWAVE plug-in for MAC? I really don't know but I don't see a big problem. Assuming there're no such plug-ins, if one simply made about 50 HTML pages written using JavaScript/DHTML/VBScript and embeded some QT movies and QR-VRs in those pages then embeded these whole package in an executable as a webpage won't it be called DVD-Rom content??? Another example, Tomb Raider DVD; it's the demo for TR5. So what's the problem here if we simply put another copy of the demo but not a Win, a MAC version?? I know I'm missing something, but whatever it's, I don't think that what I said above is impossible to do... __________________ "The more I C, the less I see"

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02-27-2002, 08:35 PM	#2 (permalink)
Hollow Man Not Kevin Bacon Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Connecticut	For the Phantom Menace DVD, you need to have the Interactual Player running in order to get to the special website which has a special trailer for Attack of the Clones. Since this player does not run on the Mac, those folks could not see the trailer. A few weeks later Lucasfilm made a special area of starwars.com so that Mac users could see the trailer. But as far as I know, they still can't access the special website (dvd.starwars.com). -HM