Now there is a scary word. What exactly do you mean by it? Could you define Apple's proprietariness for us?
High Def DVD. Probably not be able to change out the installed DVD player. Rather like you probably will not be able to change out the installed DVD player in most Windows laptops. You will be able to connect to your HD TV provided that it has the require DVI connector on it.
DRM'd WIndows Media files. Probably not going to happen. Something to do with Microsoft proprietariness. The Mac does not play Windows DRM'd files. Not a fault of the Mac, rather the fault of MS. Note that Windows can play Apple DRM'd files because Apple wrote software for Windows users to play it with.
Personally I do not see many Windows DRM'd Media files so maybe there are actually more Apple ones around. Maybe it depends on where you look and what you are looking for. As for your fear of being locked into iTunes, what would you like to be locked into?
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I'm thinking of buying a White Macbook because they seem so cool nowadays, but its pretty scary getting into all Apple's proprietariness.
I want to use it as my DVD player, as well as lots of other things. So it needs to connect easily to my HD TV (using DVI / HDMI) and at some stage it needs to be possible to upgrade the DVD player to play one variety or another of High Def DVD. Is it possible to upgrade components in a Macbook?
While I'm at it, how do you play DRMed windows media files on a Macbook? There are obviously far more of these kind of online offerings, and Apple are very slow to launch anything in Belgium anyway so I fear being locked into iTunes and not actually having anything to buy (at a competitive price).
HB

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