Just purchased an acer 13.3 media tek chrome book. Do I need this 8x external usb double layer DVD/rw/cd-rw write drive to play and watch movies from a disc?
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Just purchased an acer 13.3 media tek chrome book. Do I need this 8x external usb double layer DVD/rw/cd-rw write drive to play and watch movies from a disc?
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LG Digital Customer Care · Accepted Answer

HI Edie. The whole concept about Chromebooks is built around being able to store things in the cloud and you may be able to use the LG Slim Portable DVD Writer DVD Disc Playback & DVD M-DISC™ Support, Model # SP80NB80 with it but it may have some limitations so you will want to check with your Chromebooks manufacturer first. Some Chrome books can read CD, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-RW discs. The Chrome OS can read files from any of the above-mentioned discs if they are written in data or media format. You may be able to copy files off optical media to your drive as long as they are actual media files, not CD music or DVD videos. You can also play media files directly from a disk. However, there are serious limitations to what an external DVD drive for Chromebook can do, since the system was created to function primarily online. There is no way to write files to an optical disk for Chromebook. USB devices, including external DVD drives, function as read-only. You can read the information on a disk as long as it’s in an accepted format, but you cannot write information to it. You can’t play music CDs or DVD videos with a Chromebook DVD drive because Chrome OS does not support optical disks to let you play music or movies. The primary reason for this is that Chrome OS doesn’t come with codecs. Codecs are necessary to compress and decompress large files like DVD videos. If you want to play DVDs on your Chromebook, you’ll need to install Linux. Even though you can’t play content directly from CDs or DVDs, there is a way to play music and movies on your Chromebook. Google has confirmed that you can play music files, like mp3s, and converted video files, like mp4s. So to watch movies, you first need to convert your files into a supported type...^IFV

Answered by LG Digital Customer Care 8 years ago

blazer188 · Answer

No, you can just get a player, but for the price, why not get a writer also and expand your possibilities?

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