On Saturday, September 1, 2018 6:46:38 AM MDT rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 02/09/2018 12:21 AM, tide wrote: > > On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 05:53:12 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: > >> On 01/09/2018 12:40 PM, tide wrote: > >>> On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 22:42:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > >>>> On 8/31/2018 2:40 PM, tide wrote: > >>>>> I don't think I've ever had a **game** hung up in a black screen > >>>>> and not be able to close it. > >>>> > >>>> I've had that problem with every **DVD player** I've had in the last > >>>> 20 years. Power cycling is the only fix. > >>> > >>> Two very different things, odds are your DVD players code aren't even > >>> written with a complete C compiler or libraries. > >> > >> And yet they manage to run a JVM with Java on it. > > > > Not the one's Walter is talking about. I rarely have to power cycle any > > smart device, even my phone which is running so much shit on it. > > For some reason I have memories related to DVD players containing a JVM > to provide interactivity. But it doesn't look like those memory were > based on anything. So ignore me.
I don't know if any DVD players have ever used Java, but all Blu-ray players do require it, because unfortunately, the Blu-ray spec allows for the menus to be done via Java (presumably so that they can be fancier than what was possible on DVDs). - Jonathan M Davis
