Microsoft Looking Into Windows 10 DVD Player App Problems

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Problem #1: The DVD Player app costs $14.99.

Problem #2: See Problem #1

We are aware that a number of people using the Windows DVD Player app have experienced issues with DVD playback. I want to assure you that we are actively working to fix these problems and get these fixes out to the world. While this work is underway, we would like to share some workarounds for the most common problems that we’ve discovered in collaboration with the community, and let everyone know that we’re looking into them.
 
Pay $15 for the official "Windows 10 DVD Player App", insert a DVD.. And it opens.. The Windows App Store. Utter comedy.

Funny how all functionality that has been working for years now suddenly needs workarounds when they are in Metro App form. All the products MS develops in Win32 are venrally great. Yet they're still trying to throw that out and reinvent the wheel with a buggy, sluggish framework for feature stripped phone quality Apps, that clearly isn't ready. And then they wonder why third party developers don't bother, when MS can't even create compelling and solid core apps themselves.
 
Even the interns at Apple have got to be on the floor laughing at the n00bs working for MS.
 
Problem #4: Windows 10

Strange, can play Blu Rays on my Atom based Surface 3 at full resolution on an external monitor fine. Can play 3D Blu Rays in 3D on my old gaming rig just fine. Both run Windows 10. Not sure why Microsoft is having issues with some like this, does seen silly.
 
Problem #0: User never heard of VLC, decides to buy a crappy DVD player from MS
 
Strange, can play Blu Rays on my Atom based Surface 3 at full resolution on an external monitor fine.

I thought the Surface 3 was the less expensive option because of lower specs, and now I find out it comes with a Blu-Ray player. ;)

Problem #0: User never heard of VLC, decides to buy a crappy DVD player from MS

Problem #0.1: User never heard of Google.
 
You have to pay.....PAY....to watch a DVD on Windows? That's about a dollar for every year this format has been main stream.

That is pretty damn pathetic.
 
You have to pay.....PAY....to watch a DVD on Windows? That's about a dollar for every year this format has been main stream.

That is pretty damn pathetic.

You don't have to pay. Like always, you can utilize other options. Some people have already posted about such things before your post, haha.
 
You don't have to pay. Like always, you can utilize other options. Some people have already posted about such things before your post, haha.

Obviously you can use alternatives. The fact that it's not native is the point.

Also the legality of VLC's ability to play a DVD is questionable (libdvdcss). Users shouldn't have to worry about that kind of stuff.
 
DVD/Bluray playback is something that I've just never liked computers for. Either it's slow, crashy, unreliable, or more than one of the above.

Yep. I stick it out with a stand-alone set-top box, even though my HTPC could in theory playback disks very well.

By in theory, I mean if I installed a slot-loading slim bluray drive, which for some reason costs a lot more than an entire stand-alone player.
 
DVD/Bluray playback is something that I've just never liked computers for. Either it's slow, crashy, unreliable, or more than one of the above.

Yep. I stick it out with a stand-alone set-top box, even though my HTPC could in theory playback disks very well.

By in theory, I mean if I installed a slot-loading slim bluray drive, which for some reason costs a lot more than an entire stand-alone player.

Never really had many problems with it except at new OS release time. Use to ArcSoft TotalMedia Theater, they stopped developing that and now I'm on PowerDVD 15. It's must have for HTPCs I think.
 
I thought the Surface 3 was the less expensive option because of lower specs, and now I find out it comes with a Blu-Ray player. ;)

I've not bought a PC with a DVD drive for 7 years. If you build your own most DVD/BD drives come with an older version of PowerDVD or something. Optical discs and optical disc video playback are dying out slowly but surely.
 
Never really had many problems with it except at new OS release time. Use to ArcSoft TotalMedia Theater, they stopped developing that and now I'm on PowerDVD 15. It's must have for HTPCs I think.
TMT with AnyDVD HD works fine on Win10 for me. Too bad Arcsoft screwed themselves by not paying Dolby and abandoned arguably the best retail player.
 
TMT with AnyDVD HD works fine on Win10 for me. Too bad Arcsoft screwed themselves by not paying Dolby and abandoned arguably the best retail player.

Yeah, hate to see a good product go but PowerDVD has come a ways in my opinion. I've not had a single problem with PowerDVD 15 in Windows 10 playing DVD/BD/3D BD. And yeah, AnyDVD HD, that's a must have tool for HTPC use as well.
 
Windows 10 suckers, one borne every minute. Whats next, $4.99 for WMP?
How about $1.50 a month to play Solitaire or Minesweeper without ads, particularly when MS removes the free/ad-free versions during the "upgrade" process?

lol user monetization!
 
Strange, can play Blu Rays on my Atom based Surface 3 at full resolution on an external monitor fine. Can play 3D Blu Rays in 3D on my old gaming rig just fine. Both run Windows 10. Not sure why Microsoft is having issues with some like this, does seen silly.

Where do you put the disk? Magic!
 
Yeah, hate to see a good product go but PowerDVD has come a ways in my opinion. I've not had a single problem with PowerDVD 15 in Windows 10 playing DVD/BD/3D BD. And yeah, AnyDVD HD, that's a must have tool for HTPC use as well.
Last time I tried PowerDVD or WinDVD they were extremely bloated and buggy. Good to hear some good news since they're pretty much the last full blown players left.
 
I junked it after making 10 my permanent OS and deleting my old trusty 7 OS and it would not play a video from that moment. Using Power DVD for a month for free and waiting for Microsoft to give me a working player for free. 14.95 is bogus. I'd buy Power if I wanted to buy a player.
 
Strange, can play Blu Rays on my Atom based Surface 3 at full resolution on an external monitor fine.

Coolness! So do you just like lay the disc on top of the screen and let the touch sensors pick up the data or does the Surface 3 have actual psychic powers so it can do a remote read of the disc from inside a DVD binder that's in the living room while you're in the meditation room with the tablet?
 
Everyone is but hurt about the cost but the problem is that legal playback requires licensed codecs. And I believe one of the lawsuits against Microsoft kept them from including that in windows by default as that "prevents" users from then looking into 3rd party software. So before you purchased the media center edition or pack to get this feature. Now you purchase an app. So no change compared to any other version of windows as none of them play DVDs without extra software. Hence why when you buy a computer from an OEM you get windvd or powerdvd or Nero or something like that.


Coolness! So do you just like lay the disc on top of the screen and let the touch sensors pick up the data or does the Surface 3 have actual psychic powers so it can do a remote read of the disc from inside a DVD binder that's in the living room while you're in the meditation room with the tablet?

They make USB external drives. He is probably using one of those.
 
They make USB external drives. He is probably using one of those.

That's 100% less awesome than a Surface 3 with telekinetic mind powers AND would require dangerous amounts of juggling of the tablet plus external drive when you're trying to watch a movie a sofa (or on the pooper -- I read someplace that the vast majority of Surface devices end up being used there which makes being tech support for someone's Surface Pro like a jillion times more disgusting than having to fix their desktop -- and there's possible problems with dropping the external drive into the bowl too -- why do people insist on taking their computers/phones/tablets to the toilet anyway...ugh, tablet owners are all so disgusting!)
 
Apparently you've never seen the crap that ends up on keyboards especially between the keys. At least a tablet is easy to clean.
 
Apparently you've never seen the crap that ends up on keyboards especially between the keys. At least a tablet is easy to clean.

People don't usually drag a 101+ key into the crapper with them. (Yeah, like I know there are a few of them, but its really rare.) However, tablets go toilet diving almost as often as smartphones do which means the mono-molecular residue that cleaning doesn't get and your fingers are still exposed to has a much higher ratio of poop in it than a keyboard which is more likely to contain Cheetos, skin cells, and some boogers amid the usual workplace dust and dirt (except for the people that don't wash their hands or just use a little splash of water and no soap...NEVER DO OFFICE POTLUCKS...like seriously, those people are grrrrroooooss!).

You know, after thinking about tablet users and their filthy habits, I totally don't wanna eat the salad I have for lunchies anymore. It ruined my appetite which is a good thing, I guess, but still...yelch.

So yeah, keep your icky Blu-Ray player and your Surface 3 that supposedly is magically not having any of the problems Microsoft just announced they were gonna fix to yourself. (Which is totally suspect by the way. You always being with the whole problem denial thing even after Microsoft announces an upcoming fix just so you can ruin lunch for the rest of us. Thanks. :mad:)
 
People don't usually drag a 101+ key into the crapper with them.

But they do take their hands that sometimes they don't wash and then touch that 101+ keyboard. So same difference. In any case the important thing is to clean routinely surfaces and objects that are constantly getting nastiness put on them with people hands and there's NOTHING worse than keyboards because they don't get routinely cleaned because they a difficult to clean where as a tablet takes seconds to thoroughly wipe a tablet with a sterilizing agent.

So yeah, keep your icky Blu-Ray player and your Surface 3 that supposedly is magically not having any of the problems Microsoft just announced they were gonna fix to yourself. (Which is totally suspect by the way. You always being with the whole problem denial thing even after Microsoft announces an upcoming fix just so you can ruin lunch for the rest of us. Thanks. :mad:)

Probably because I use PowerDVD and not Microsoft's player which doesn't even play BDs as I already said.
 
But they do take their hands that sometimes they don't wash and then touch that 101+ keyboard. So same difference. In any case the important thing is to clean routinely surfaces and objects that are constantly getting nastiness put on them with people hands and there's NOTHING worse than keyboards because they don't get routinely cleaned because they a difficult to clean where as a tablet takes seconds to thoroughly wipe a tablet with a sterilizing agent.



Probably because I use PowerDVD and not Microsoft's player which doesn't even play BDs as I already said.

It's gross that a tablet even goes into a restroom. I think it's disgusting that clothes and shoes even have to go into those places, but keyboards don't and no matter what weird justification you're using (which isn't true because of cracks and seams..microSD slots..yuuuck!) that doesn't make sense since stuff like a Clorox wipe just kills the poopteria (bacteria and poop combined) but still leaves microscopic residue there as a sea of corpses laying on top of the tablet's screen, sides, back, and inside if they had to pull it apart to yank out the battery and reinsert it (a common problem on Windows platforms).
 
I guess your issues with bathrooms explains why you're so full of shit.:D

Don't be jealous that I was the only one smart enough to point out that killing poop bacteria (yeah, I know, but terms for lay-people are betterer than technical words like poopteria which can be mistaken for poop and cafeteria anyhow) just smears their corpses around and leaves an invisible film of residue.
 
Windows 10 suckers, one borne every minute. Whats next, $4.99 for WMP?

They give you Windows 10 for free, but then charge you for stuff that used to be included.

It's starting to sound like Airplane travel. (except for the initial free part)
 
I have had my ups and downs with optical drives. But when my mom remembers watching a Blu-ray (through PC) you know it's good, I was stunned she remembered that so specifically from give years ago, probably Avatar through Netflix BD. Blockbuster by mail was also good, RIP.
 
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