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Netbooks

kitty33 · 2009-10-31 18:31:27

can you watch dvds on Netbooks if not how can you go about it? Thanks K

31-10-2009 6:31pm

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kitty33

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can you watch dvds on Netbooks if not how can you go about it?

Thanks K

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#2 31-10-2009 6:40pm

Amalgam

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kitty33, you can go and simply plug a USB DVD drive into the netbook and play from the DVD itself.. simple, but not very portable or practical.

Another way is to convert the DVD to a video file using free software.

Typically, you would use something like: Handbrake: http://handbrake.fr/

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#3 31-10-2009 8:31pm

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Moved from F&A.

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