Peter wrote:
>many new DVD players do support AVI files. That is one reason I
>got my Philips DVD player to replace an older Sony unit.>>


Interesting. Is it one of the more expensive players?

How does it display the info---on its own screen, or via the tv screen?

Can it play .pps and flash files?  A society of which I'm a member is 
currently thinking about acquiring a plasma tv + DVD player---one of the 
requirements will be to play pps presentations transferred from computer to 
DVD disk. Possibly Nero might be able to create a playable DVD from pps, 
though I wouldn't trust it. It would be much easier just to burn the pps as 
a data file if we could find a domestic player that can cope.

Don Penlington


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