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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have been having problems with DVD playback for about 6months now from my 16x Sony drive. Originally they were just a few frames with no jump in audio. Now the problem has progressed to almost ...

ZDNet's Ed Bott reports that DVD playback has been cut from its upcoming operating system as Microsoft tries to give consumers a reason to buy the more expensive Windows 8 Pro edition. Windows 8 users ...

With both the PS2 and Xbox being able to play DVD movies a lot of gamers are wondering what console is the best DVD player. Using the PlayStation 2 with the latest DVD drivers and remote and the Xbox ...

Click to viewUpdate: You can now hack your Wii even more easily, and you don't need to buy anything to do it. Here's how. Despite the fact that it ships with a DVD drive, for whatever godforsaken ...

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 ...