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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't normally play DVDs on my PCs (because, as I say, none has a built-in DVD drive) but after I read your post I've tried playing one on my Windows 7 PC from an external drive, in Windows Media Player, and it played just fine. It would seem, therefore, that Windows 7 at least does come with the codec with no requirement to pay for it.
EDIT: Tried it on my Windows 8.1 Surface Pro. Plays fine on that, too, so it would seem that your statement that "for many years now Windows has not come with the codec unless one paid for it" is not correct...
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Up to Windows 7 Windows came with DVD video playing. Windows 8 onwards did not - Windows 8.x has been out for getting on 3 years now. This matches my experience on many machines, but in case of disbelief there are many references to this on the internet, including the Windows 8 Wiki's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window...moved_features under removed features, and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...Media_features under Media Features.
It may be that MS has been putting the codec on all or some of its own Win 8.x devices (those being tablets and phones) as they can cost it into the device's price. Also, as I said, the ability to play video DVDs has also been made available free from time to time (e.g. it was free for some time to all users of Windows 8 Pro and above). However, the generalization I made stands.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
You misread what I said, by the way. I did not say that playing DVDs had anything to do with dropping Media Centre; I said that I suspect that the reason they've dropped the ability to play DVDs from the Windows 10 Media Player is because most PCs no longer have a DVD drive.
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I did not misread what you said, I can only see your references to dropping the ability for DVD playing from Windows 10 from which you seem to have assumed meant would be understood to be from from Media Player due to your belief that all Windows versions prior to 10 had the DVD playing capability. As I have said, that functionality was actually dropped with Windows 8 for which Media Center was the MS add on solution, so your reference to dropping DVD playing from Windows 10 was correctly interpreted by me as being the dropping of Media Center.
I'll leave it at that as this is tiresome and I am sure is going to go nowhere with you.