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InterActual Player

InterActual Player

Provide HTML content interacting with DVD-Video playback.

Version:  1.8

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1.4 Rocks!!

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Threep Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 01:45 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

Wow!! The 1.4 player is even better than 1.3. They have made changes so that the window doesn't resize every time there is an aspect ratio change in the window.
This player is built from the same technology used to make Apple's DVD Player, so for playing standard DVD movies, there is little difference between InterActual Player and Apple DVD Player.
But for the new range of DVDs enhanced with DVD-ROM features this player really enhances the movie watching experience.

There are a lot of existing titles with ROM content, that will probably never work on the Mac, unless Apple somehow ported ActiveX to the MacOS.
This is a bummer, but enterprising users will find that a lot of content on DVDs such as Shrek, Spirit, Sinbad, Pirates of the Carribean etc. is just HTML, Flash and Shockwave and can be run in your standard web browser. You just need to look in the "common" folder on the DVD, which is where the DVD-ROM content is stored.

This product is only a few months old, and already we've seen half a dozen DVD releases that support it. I think if all us Mac users throw our support behind DVDs featuring Mac content, then the movie studios will start releasing more and more titles.   
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2 comments |

Corporate plant - Studio G

This guy is a corporate plant -- DUDE, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO GIVE YOUR OWN PRODUCT A 5-STAR RATING!

Check his comment history and you'll see how obviously this Threep is an Interactual minion.

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Wednesday, May 18 2005 @ 11:36 PM PDT


1.4 Rocks!! - BunnyRevenger

It is obvious you belong to the company that makes this software, why pretend to be someone else? Just to give it a high rating??

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Wednesday, May 18 2005 @ 11:59 PM PDT