Physical discs took another step toward extinction late Thursday after Microsoft announced that DVD playback will not be available by default on Windows 8. The new move adds another wrinkle to ...

Windows Media Center won’t survive the upgrade to Windows 10, but DVD playback will. Gabriel Aul, an engineering general manager at Microsoft, wrote on Twitter that existing Windows Media Center users ...

You might have heard that Windows 8 won't come with Media Center, but that's not the only missing multimedia piece of the puzzle. This week, Microsoft revealed that the new operating system won't have ...

Microsoft has announced plans to scrap native DVD playback from Windows 8, instead focusing on improving video streaming abilities by making it easier to access services like Netflix, Hulu, and ...

I thought I'd give you an update on the DVD playback problem that I reported on yesterday. Here's a summary of the problem: DVD playback is corrupted when one of the three screens (in this case a ...

This isn’t really news if you’ve been paying attention to the fine print about what is and what isn’t available in the various editions of Windows Vista. In fact it is just another in what seems like ...

The version of Windows Media Player that will accompany Windows 8 will not be able to play back DVDs, Microsoft has said. In a blog post on Friday, Microsoft employees Bernardo Caldas and Linda ...

When Nintendo dished out its final specifications for the Wii, there seemed to be one glaring omission--DVD playback. With the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 touting built-in multimedia players, the Wii ...

Corruption in the handling of DVD encryption may lead to garbled DVD playback. Here's how to clear it up. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt ...

Ravisent Technologies has announced an agreement with Microsoft to provide its DVD playback software for Microsoft's Xbox console. According to Ravisent, its CineMaster DVD engine is optimized for the ...

Since we're already in the spirit of covering movie-playback downgrades on other upcoming hardware platforms, let's keep the ball rolling. Matt Casamassina, IGN's long-suffering embedded Nintendo ...

Don’t bother using the Xbox 360 as a DVD player (note: that’s regular DVD, not HD DVD) since, according to Extreme Tech, it’s absolutely terrible. ET went to extreme measures to test the performance ...