What’s the best program to watch DVDs on?
 
ludeatic007
Posted: 18 January 2004 12:18 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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I’m using winDVD that came with the computer right now, but is there anything that helps save battery life a little bit?

What do you use?

Thanks.

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aaron901
Posted: 18 January 2004 12:25 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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what?!  :shock:

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Posted: 18 January 2004 12:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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windvd 5

the best !!

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Posted: 18 January 2004 01:40 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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WinDVD that comes with it is pretty good but WinDVD 5 supposedly has some power management features. I don’t know how much it really can save you. The biggest power drain is the screen and the drive itself and not the program.

You’re better off lowering the brightness levels as your best bet for conserving battery life. You can’t really do a lot about the DVD drive unless you rip your DVD onto the hard disk and then disable the DVD drive.

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Posted: 18 January 2004 01:46 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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You can also save battey life by using headphones over internal speakers.

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