Can I watch a regular DVD movie without any other software? Can I watch a Blu-Ray movie without any other software? Can I just plug it into a 3.0 USB port on my laptop or do I need to run it thru a special usb POWERED hub? Can I watch a regular DVD movie without any other software? Can I watch a Blu-Ray movie without any other software? Can I just plug it into a 3.0 USB port on my laptop or do I need to run it thru... » Read More Can I watch a regular DVD movie without any other software? Can I watch a Blu-Ray movie without any other software? Can I just plug it into a 3.0 USB port on my laptop or do I need to run it thru a special usb POWERED hub? « Show Less
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You gave no info agout your machine and operating system so I can just answer you in general. I watch DVD and BR using VLC player. There are other player capable of doing that but i've been using VLC for a long time so I stick with it. The device is plugged directly into a USP port on my laptop (Toshiba) with no additional connections. It seems that the current provided by a regular USP port on a computer is enough to operate it. I don't have it that long (about a month) so I don't know if any problems develop with time.Ronny
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It's a great drive but doesn't come with software other than the built in drivers. Check if you have a media player with your os and if not (windows 8) you can download some decent free software or buy some.
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Yes, in relation to all questions except you need a software that I had to buy on the internet to see the blue ray movies. In my case I have a mac maybe for another operating system like windows is easier to solve this.
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If all questions except you need a software that I had to buy an Internet to see the blue ray movies. In my case I have a mac maybe for another operating system like windows is easier to solve this.
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I have tried to play all types of vides formats through my LG TVs and dvd player usb ports but they will cannot recognise any files on this drive. What am I doing wrong here? I have formatted the device, there is no software installed on it. Playback works fine on my laptop and galaxy tab. :-(
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You can but as I recall you can only do it through the FireWire port and then when you finalize the disc you can play the movies back on a regular DVD player
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It doesn't have a dvd port, but you can buy an external cd/dvd/bluray reader
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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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It does not come with software to play movies. Software to play blu-ray movies is not free, so you'll have to buy that elsewhere. There are several products on the market.Reading a data disc does not require software and that'll work through Windows/Linux/whatever without any additional software. So if you're using this for data discs then you'll be fine.(To be fair, VLC can play Blu-ray movies and is free, but it requires installing a 3rd party addon and if you have to ask the question then you probably won't be successful doing it. So just expect that you'll need to buy software to play movies.) It does not come with software to play movies. Software to play blu-ray movies is not free, so you'll have to buy that elsewhere. There are several products on the market.Reading a data disc does not require software and that'll work through Windows/Linux/whatever without any additional software. So if you're using this for data discs then you'll be fine.(To be fair, VLC can play Blu-ray movies and is free, but it requires installing a 3rd party addon and if you have to ask the question then you probably won't be successful doing it. So just expect that you'll need... » Read More It does not come with software to play movies. Software to play blu-ray movies is not free, so you'll have to buy that elsewhere. There are several products on the market.Reading a data disc does not require software and that'll work through Windows/Linux/whatever without any additional software. So if you're using this for data discs then you'll be fine.(To be fair, VLC can play Blu-ray movies and is free, but it requires installing a 3rd party addon and if you have to ask the question then you probably won't be successful doing it. So just expect that you'll need to buy software to play movies.) « Show Less
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Keith, I am able to run a .2.0 DVD player without the hub power adaptor using my Acer Surface Pro (Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center). But this device can not burn a DVDs I did not have any other devices plugged into the hub. To burn a DVD with a USB 3.0 DVD Burner on A Surface Pro machine, I had to plug the power adapter into the hub. Remember if you are running Windows 8 that came installed on the machine (or 8.1) and have not upgraded to Pro and added the WMC, Windows 8 has no native software to play or burn a DVD. You need to upgrade to Pro with WMC or purchase a 3rd party app to play or burn DVDs personally I like Cyberlink's Media Suite 11 available in the Windows 8 store. Keith, I am able to run a .2.0 DVD player without the hub power adaptor using my Acer Surface Pro (Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center). But this device can not burn a DVDs I did not have any other devices plugged into the hub. To burn a DVD with a USB 3.0 DVD Burner on A Surface Pro machine, I had to plug the power adapter into the hub. Remember if you are running Windows 8 that came installed on the machine (or 8.1) and have not upgraded to Pro and added the WMC, Windows 8 has no native software to play or burn a DVD. You need to upgrade to Pro with WMC or purchase a 3rd party app to play... » Read More Keith, I am able to run a .2.0 DVD player without the hub power adaptor using my Acer Surface Pro (Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center). But this device can not burn a DVDs I did not have any other devices plugged into the hub. To burn a DVD with a USB 3.0 DVD Burner on A Surface Pro machine, I had to plug the power adapter into the hub. Remember if you are running Windows 8 that came installed on the machine (or 8.1) and have not upgraded to Pro and added the WMC, Windows 8 has no native software to play or burn a DVD. You need to upgrade to Pro with WMC or purchase a 3rd party app to play or burn DVDs personally I like Cyberlink's Media Suite 11 available in the Windows 8 store. « Show Less
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When I first got my tv, I remember playing video files with it via a usb key. The last time I tried, it did not appear to work, and I recall recreating the files using handbrake or something in different formats, and was never able to make it work. I think I was about to unplug everything else and retry it when I gave up and put it on disk and played it through the blu-ray player. This is the link for my particular tv , which displays a list of the supported video formats. http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201104/20110427083150372/BN68-01691A-02Eng-110427.pdf I took a snap shot, but apparently can't paste or attach via this communication mode. ( sorry ) there were some avi modes listed.
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Not correct - I have played several movies on it - however, I have a USB 3.0 port for the main connection and also a second USB 3.0 port on one laptop and a USB 2.0 port on another laptop for the power - both drive the player just fine.
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You need to use an external USB DVD player. It is a great computer. Boots almost instantly. Very fast and powerful.
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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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First, I do not think that the VOB files of a DVD format will play from a USB drivethru a DVD player. But I do use software to convert some DVD VOB formatsto AVI files that will play from a flash drive thru a DVD player.Does that make sense???
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You can archive any digital files (including photos) to this media or any writeable (meaning burnable) Blu Ray media. If I were you I would copy the files from my SD card and put it into a folder on my hard drive before I try and burn them to any optical media including this memorex disk (examples of optical media would include CD, DVD and Blu Ray). As for burning. . . you will need to have a drive that is capable of burning Blu Ray media. I can not be sure but I would think that your laptop does not have a Blu Ray drive built in. It might but I would not know without first seeing it. As for drives you will need one that can BURN a BD and not just read them. There are drives that both burn and read and then there are drives that just read BD disks so if you have to get one make sure you get one that can BURN and not just READ BD media.
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This item comes without cables, you will need a SATA data cable to hook it to your motherboard and a SATA power cable. It needs no drivers, I plugged the drive in, my computer recognized the drive , I put a dvd in, it started right away. However, you WILL need Blu-Ray software to play Blu-Ray discs.
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It does not come with software to play movies. Software to play blu-ray movies is not free, so you'll have to buy that elsewhere. There are several products on the market. Reading a data disc does not require software and that'll work through Windows/Linux/whatever without any additional software. So if you're using this for data discs then you'll be fine. (To be fair, VLC can play Blu-ray movies and is free, but it requires installing a 3rd party addon and if you have to ask the question then you probably won't be successful doing it. So just expect that you'll need to buy software to play movies.)
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I never had to do any of that with mine, thank goodness. I use DVD-R, I burned, I finalized, and they play in my Samsung and my Mac Mini's drive.I had something odd happen the other day, though; a DVD I ordered from Netflix wouldn't play, even after I cleaned it up, but same DVD would play in my computer's drive. It was a foreign film, but I wonder what it was about a commercial disc that would make the Samsung spit it out every time, telling me "please check the disc"? That's the only time that's happened! I wonder if by now it's time to clean the laser.
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It does not have a built in DVD drive so you will not be able to out of the box. You could get an external DVD drive if you really needed it.