Can you watch movies(dvds) with this? How do you open movies to watch on this? It hasnt worked for me.
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If your movies come in DVD, yes, you can watch. You need a DVD player (software/application, there are some free version you can download from the internet), and the player should be all-region or the correct region in order to play with the DVD is a region restricted (most DVD player software is region free). Keep it short, hardwarely, yes it does.
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I've tried a few different video types but all through a smart bluray player. What are you playing? based on how it seems to function id say that should work.
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I don't think it is the drive that plays the movie. The drive only reads the data on the DVD. It is the software on the PC that converts the DVD data to "play" the movie. I connected this drive to my desktop that already has a DVD drive I watch movies on. The movie played fine on the Samsung drive. However, I connected the drive to my Samsung NC10 netbook, no movie played. I then downloaded the free open source VLC media player from www.videolan.org to the netbook. VLC plays DVD movies on the netbook fine. No need to pay extra for player software. (Short Answer: The Samsung external DVD drive will play movies fine as long as you have DVD playing software on your PC.) I don't think it is the drive that plays the movie. The drive only reads the data on the DVD. It is the software on the PC that converts the DVD data to "play" the movie. I connected this drive to my desktop that already has a DVD drive I watch movies on. The movie played fine on the Samsung drive. However, I connected the drive to my Samsung NC10 netbook, no movie played. I then downloaded the free open source VLC media player from www.videolan.org to the netbook. VLC plays DVD movies on the netbook fine. No need to pay extra for player software. (Short Answer: The Samsung... » Read More I don't think it is the drive that plays the movie. The drive only reads the data on the DVD. It is the software on the PC that converts the DVD data to "play" the movie. I connected this drive to my desktop that already has a DVD drive I watch movies on. The movie played fine on the Samsung drive. However, I connected the drive to my Samsung NC10 netbook, no movie played. I then downloaded the free open source VLC media player from www.videolan.org to the netbook. VLC plays DVD movies on the netbook fine. No need to pay extra for player software. (Short Answer: The Samsung external DVD drive will play movies fine as long as you have DVD playing software on your PC.) « Show Less
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You can connect to the Internet if you have a wireless router. Go to settings and follow prompts. You'll need to enter your IP address. Thus it should stream movies. I don't use it. I can stream movies on my Smart TV, so I just use the BD-F5100 for playing Blue Ray DVDs.
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Sorry about that, I can watch DVD'S ... you need to contact Acer ... good luck !!!
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Has anyone returned this and then purchased a BETTER drive that is fully functional in playing DVDs? Would appreciate advice.
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We bought the player for viewing movies from all regions/codes. Although I have Apple products & WiFi in my home, I have never tried using the player with them..........Sorry I could mot help you. The DVD player is great for viewing movies from other countries, which are non-USA format
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I can access it through my wireless Blu ray DVD player since it is hooked up to my computer as an external hardrive and can view home movies that I have on there. Not sure if that answers your question, but that is the only way I have used it with wireless.
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Thanks AM for your reply!Agree, with all Netflix APP that I have installed, only can see the list of films and my query, but I had been unable to stream nothing and always gets the same error message!!
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Yes I use Netflix and Hulu with it through my DVD player. It has a normal,Movie and music mode
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I had never tried to play movies, so I just put in a bluray and it didn't play, and then I put in a regular dvd and it did play... so it doesn't play blu-ray
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While i had mine I didn't use for movies. But to my understanding Netflix will not work. It was an awesome tablet otherwise. Hope this helped.
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I have used Netflix with this device. There is a USB connecting ability for this device but my hunch is that it may be picky about the size of drive you use. Haven't tried to connect via usb to see if it can handle self powered devices or USB thumb drives only.
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Unfortunately I haven't been able to do anything with DVD drive. It won't play dvd's, cd's I too have a HP Envoy touch that did not come with a DVD/CD drive. I haven't been able to figure it out yet.
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I don't believe so I never tried. I just used it to simply watch DVDs. But I'm pretty sure you can't.
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Yes. Mine broke and will not play anything. I would look at another dvd player.
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I don't know how you configured your system to watch movies. I used iTunes to create a library of movies, TV shows, and music on the drive, which is connected via USB to my iMac. I then have an Apple TV device connected to my TV (Yes, I also have a Visio) using an HDMI port. The iMac and Apple TV can converse with each other to play movies through my Wi-Fi system (I have an Apple Time Capsule, but your Wi-Fi could easily be something else). Just bring up iTunes on the computer and select the library on the drive and you're good to go.