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Subject: Re: will Shredder 9 come on a CD or DVD?

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 12:58:54 01/30/05

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On January 30, 2005 at 02:46:08, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On January 30, 2005 at 00:07:13, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>
>>Bill,
>>
>>You can add a DVD player for half the price of the chess program.
>>
>>http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=88
>>
>>You can then watch DVDs on your computer monitor. This is a vast improvement
>>over your TV unless you have a large plasma/ HDTV monitor that you paid at least $2500.00 USD for.
>>
>>TJF
>
>      For me this is no (real) progress ... the contrary is the
>      case. People are anyway watching too much TV and now we have
>      even the possibility to watch DVD's on the computer. This
>      is for sociopolitical reasons not good ... what a crazy world -:)
>      Kurt
>
Well..  You can use endgame tablebases that come on DVD.  Especially the 6-piece
sets that aren't very fun to download.  That makes good use for a DVD drive for
chess.  ;)

-elc.



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