Only if your computer has the right stuff. In addition to a DVD-ROM drive you must have extra hardware to decode MPEG-2 video and Dolby Digital/MPEG-2/PCM audio, or your computer must be fast enough to do the decoding in software. Decent software-only playback requires a 300-MHz Pentium II or Mac G3. The computer operating system or playback drivers must support regional codes and be licensed to descramble copy-protected movies.

application. If your notebook already has these installed, just install the NWDVDPR and you are ready to have a decoder and player application, and is listed below, PORT will provide you with a free copy of Mediamatics DVD Express software decoder and player. See Mediamatics DVD Express minimum requirements below.

The Xbox has a DVD drive, but the drive will not be able to play DVD movies without the "Xbox DVD Movie Playback kit".

No. At this time DVD movies are region specific, which means a movie purchased in Europe is not compatible with a North American DVD player, and vice-versa.

VLC Media Player is the most versatile player we've found for playing the wide variety of movies found in the Archive. And, it's free! We also recommend MPlayer. MPEG2 (DVD) freeware VLC, shareware player from http://www.elecard.com, or for-pay quicktime6 plugin: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/mpeg2playback/ ; MPEG2 (DVD) freeware VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/ ) the for-pay quicktime6 add-on (see http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/mpeg2playback/ ).

Use a freeware flash player available from here http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated

Not normally, no. The first DVD kit you use with your Xbox will lock it to the region of the DVD kit. So if you put a Region 1 kit into your Xbox, it will be permanently locked to only Region 1 DVDs. There is a product called Region X that will supposedly allow your Xbox to play movies from any region. Currently the product seems only to be available for Region 2 Xboxes. Information about the product is available here: http://special.reserve.co.uk/listings/extrainfo.

Cadet regulations prohibit fourth-class cadets from playing music CDs or DVDs in the cadet barracks. Due to bandwidth limitations, cadets are not permitted to download music files, MP3 or radio access over the Internet.

If you try to play a movie (DVD) copied to your hard drive, you may get an error message. Because all DVD movies are in encrypted format. In order to open a encrypted movie, we need a decryption key. This key is stored in inaccessible area of the DVD. It cant be copied to hard drive.

Yes and you'll have full menu support too. Just rip the DVD movie to your hard drive using DVD Decryptor, then ftp the ISO file to your f:\video or g:\video directory on your Xbox. Once copied over, just play it with XBMC. Or just use the dvd2xbox application on your Xbox and make sure you're ripping in ISO mode. "ISO mode" is for movies and "normal mode" is for games.

Please read this forum posting about how to create DVDs from many of the movies found in the Archive: http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=26467. If you have further information to add, please email us.

There can be a large variation in the storage required from one DVD movie to another, but an "average" DVD movie requires approximately 6.7 gigabytes of storage. Therefore, you can expect to store approximately 112 DVDs on a 750 GB Disk Cartridge and 150 DVDs on a 1 TB Disk Cartridge.