People who have a PC with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 and Windows Media Center installed will be able to automatically download the new DVD Player app for Windows 10 for free when they ...

Download Windows DVD Player app for Windows 11/10. It allows users to watch both commercial as well as homemade discs in the DVD-Video format.

In some circumstances, you can get the Windows 10 DVD Player app for free, but our favorite no-cost option does a whole lot more.

Only then could you watch a DVD. There were ways around this, ways that still work on Windows 10 like VLC player, but free playback programs don't tend to support Blu-ray.

A clean install of Windows 10 doesn't include the software required to play back DVD movies. If your PC includes a DVD drive, you could pay Microsoft $14.99 to add this capability, but why not use ...

Windows 10 excludes a few key features, including support for playing DVDs. Microsoft has now released an app to handle the task, though it doesn't play Blu-ray discs.

Skip to the bottom. Microsoft's player doesn't support Blu-rays.) VideoLAN's VLC desktop software, an open-source (read: free to use) media player that includes support for DVD media.

Q: My PC running Windows 10 Professional does not have a DVD player. I had been using a free DVD app that is no longer free. Can you recommend a free app? — Tracy Corriveau ...

Yes, if you got your Windows 10 upgrade for free, it'll cost you more to play that dusty copy of Armageddon in DVD Player than it did to get an entire operating system.

Microsoft's DVD Player for Windows 10 is now available in the Windows Store, but it's just free for some users.

If you partake in Microsoft's free upgrade offer from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10, Windows Media Center will be removed without warning. In its place, a new app called Windows DVD Player has been ...