I just want to briefly mention an alternative that may work for you: you can also rip DVD movies on your system into popular video formats that every media player plays back just fine. If you do not want to pay money for adding DVD playback support to your version of Windows 8, you may be interested in free DVD players for the operating system that you can use instead for the very same purpose. What this does not change though is that Windows Media Player will still not support movie DVD playback. Purchasing either pack turns the version of the operating system into Windows 8 Pro with Media Center.Īnd with Media Center comes the option to play DVD movies on Windows 8. Users can however purchase the Windows 8 Media Center Pack, or the Windows 8 Pro Pack, to add the software to their version of Windows 8.

What more? Windows Media Center, a full screen media interface, won't be included in Windows 8 as well natively. So Microsoft has decided to remove DVD playback from Windows Media Player in Windows 8, which basically removes a feature from the player that has been there under Windows 7.

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