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 From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland. Computer tutorials, local scenery, and other things at my website: http://users.tpg.com.au/deepend/index1.html "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. http://freepctech.com/rode