Microsoft media player

[Megan's dad]

After lots of research and a general walk round this site purchased a Black NC10 for light use between home and office. Already own an R719 for general stuff. I am aware of the limitions of a netbook over a laptop but was surprised when the media player played music CDs, work demonstations on CDs (through an external drive) but not DVDs. Requires a decoder. DVDs play well on the R719. Is it worth buying a fix for this or is the Atom 270 not up to DVDs?

[SammyWiki]

Hi! My understanding is that the "premium" versions of Windows do have DVD playback but netbooks seem to come with the cheap "light" version which requires this extra plugin. I think the NC10 can play back DVDs OK - although it's not something I have tried myself. It does struggle to play HD video, but DVD quality should be OK.

Try the popular and free media player VLC, you can get it from here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

This should allow you to test DVD play back yourself with no extra cost! Let us know how you get on :)!

[jezza101]

This thread might be of use:
http://www.sammynetbook.com/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?47136.0