>> I have yet to see anybody have a need to show a DVD in a meeting. It's
>> much more usual to need to show PowerPoint, or some WMA-encoded file on
>> the file server / intranet, or a VNC/RDP session or something like than
>> than a plain ordinary DVD.
> 
> Yes, that certainly is more usual. But it's not rare that at my work
> people are eg. showing commercials from a DVD. At paragliding course we
> watched educational DVD.

OK, fair enough then.

> Yep. It just seems that nobody thinks of it, if you're showing the DVD
> off with a projector. If you hook it to TV, people think DVD -player and
> don't even realize that laptop can be hooked on TV.

I think that's just it: People think you can only connect computers to a 
computer projector, and only video equipment to a TV.

>> Unless you have my mum's DVD player.
> 
> Why yes, it's a HiFi-model, it needs to warm up first to make sure the
> picture won't have 7th harmonics on the signal!

...it's HDMI? :-P

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