Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create ...

Most modern laptops lack an optical drive, yet CDs and DVDs are still used in many households, whether for playing old movies, installing older software, or even for making physical backups. An ...

You can play a DVD in Windows 10 for free with a little help. But that help’s probably best if it doesn’t come from Microsoft. I’ll tell you how Microsoft’s solution sort-of works for some people.

Take advantage of the Apple computer at your office to play DVDs that contain technical manuals, applicant resumes or software tutorials. When you insert a DVD into the computer's DVD drive, the ...

Hello,<BR><BR>I have successfully attached my laptop to my television through RCA cables (vid out to TV, headphones to TV). Everything works fine, I can see Windows Media Player movies or mpegs on the ...

Q: A friend of ours photographed and videoed our wedding ceremony several weeks ago and gave us a DVD with JPG and MOV files on it. The JPEG images are fine, but we can't play the MOV videos, and for ...

Microsoft's Windows 7 honchos recently showed off the power performance improvements of their soon to be released OS, playing a DVD on a Vista Ultimate and Windows 7 Ultimate laptop side-by-side. The ...

The Sony Handycam series of camcorders enables entrepreneurs with little or no videography experience to create high-quality promotional or training videos and play them on standard TVs using cables ...

I got a DVD from Netflix today and am trying to play it on my laptop. I should say was trying to play since my battery is nearly dead now from dealing with this. The disc asks to install Interactual ...

Everyone you've talked to is half right. Sony's licensing on Blu-ray is obnoxious, and it means it's pretty difficult to play Blu-rays on your computer—in fact, Windows is the only operating system ...