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The problem is, his customers don’t deal with app stores at all and instead rely on software distributed on optical media. My friend is a system integrator at a large IT solutions provider and deals with demanding clients on a daily basis, catering to their every whim. I could sense a nervous tone in his voice. “What’s up with this new iMac dropping the optical drive?”, a friend of mine asked me nervously the other day. The question is, will other makers follow suit and remove rotating medias from their products? More importantly, what exactly does the new iMac tell us about a Tim Cook Apple? Then again, every Apple customer has always been an early adopter in every sense of the word. With the revamped all-in-one desktop, club Cupertino risks alienating the old-fashioned types by inconveniencing their daily computing, at least until the rest of the industry catches up. The new iMac without a built-in optical drive is the perfect epitome of such forward-thinking that, however, isn’t without its pitfalls. I guess you could say the company invented it. Our DVDs should play like any other DVD, using your DVD Player of choice.Apple is no stranger to abandoning features it thinks are heading for the graveyard of technology. If the DVD does not show up on the desktop, refer to these instructions from Apple. Our DVDs should play like any other DVD, using the preinstalled DVD Player program.

On Windows 7:Īll editions of Windows 7 include full DVD support via Windows Media Center. Refer to these instructions to Play a CD or DVD in Windows Media Center. Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, Windows Vista Ultimate Edition: To purchase a compatible DVD decoder, visit Plug-ins for Windows Media Player. You may need to install a compatible DVD decoder (also known as a MPEG-2 decoder) to enable DVD playback. Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise:

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If you would prefer to purchase the Windows Media Player plugin, please see this article from Microsoft for more information on how to do so. We recommend downloading this software from in order to play DVDs on your computer. However, the VLC Player program, available free of charge, will enable you to play DVDs or any type of video file. The Windows Media Player plugin is sold for a fee.

If you see an error from Windows Media Player that says "compatible DVD decoder not installed," this means that a plugin (called an mpeg-2 decoder) needed to play DVDs is not installed.

Typically, the drive would be listed as "DVD-ROM", "DVD R/RW" or similar under My Computer, and the DVD logo would appear on the drive itself.

First, make sure that the computer's optical drive is capable of reading DVD media.

Because the default settings in Windows Media Player no longer enable video DVD playback, you may have to take a few extra steps in order to play a DVD on a your computer.