[This is an odd crosspost.  saisr people and NetBSD people please avoid 
spamming each other, or we will have real chaos.]

I have just discovered VCD's.  wow.  You can make your own VCD's by 
burning blank CD's, and you can play them on ``VCD players'' which are 
made in Hong Kong and cost US50-100.

Or, you can buy premade movies on VCD from Thai Pirates (sm), for US1.50 
each, less than half the cost of renting, and you get to keep it forever.  
Best of all, you can put your movie collection into those Caselogic 
booklets to keep it from covering every wall of the livingroom like my 
grandparents' house.

The Chineese are terrible programmers, but the software in VCD players 
is still better than a PeeCee.  It's not quite up to Sony/NetBSD/videogame 
quality, though, so have reasonable expectations.  Someone should make 
VCD player game for DreamCast, Hitachi SH4.

  (1) put in ``VCD Warriors, South China Sea 2051'' game
  (2) Turn on Sega DreamCast (tm)
  (2.5) [boggle] What do The Regents of the University of California 
        have to do with this?  nevermind.
  (3) take out VCD game
  (4) put in VCD _The Big Hit_
  (5) press ``Start'' on Player A gamepad
  (6) watch movie about naughty Japanese schoolgirl.
  (7) if movie crashes, go to step 1.  
      (not possible with Windows Media Player!)
      or, (8) turn off DreamCast (tm) and read _Ada_ instead.

sorry for the technical nonsense.  I couldn't help myself.  I will have 
so many movies now.