Then you might have downloaded crippled files.

Besides: Please don't use Phex for infringing copyrights. Filesharing is far more than just getting proprietary files, for example there's a great and lively anime music video scene in Gnutella (just try to search for "AMV"), and there's an ever growing pool of legally downloadeable and shareable material:

http://wiki.phex.org/Free_and_Legal_Content

These will help establishing p2p even more and will help us give you the best possible filesharing experience.

Best wishes,
Arne

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thanks for the info
just like to burn movies to watch on my big screen with the family thats all.
what you mean by crippled files.if files we're crippled! wouldn't i have a problem watching them on my computer?

Crippled files means files with digital restrictions management.

Windows plays them (and mediaplayer might well call home and tell someone what you just watched), but they often can't be read by normal dvd players.

This is the case for many wmv-files (Windows Media Video).

Infos: http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/

Another reason why they don't play could be that they are simply broken but your movieplayer is able to correct the errors, while the dvd-player can't.

And still another reason could be, that your dvd player just can't play the format.

How do you convert them for your dvd-player?

That it's mostly new releases can mean that it's more probable that you get intentionally broken versions or crippled files.

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so in other words the movies i downloaded must have been intentionally done broken versions or crippled files exactly as your saying.
uummmmm ok
thanks for the input