It seems impossible, I don’t know of any tablets that currently allow you to play DVDs from an external drive. I’ve tried hooking up the drive and putting a disk in, but it doesn’t offer to play it and I can’t see any way to request it.
And I know they are unworkable if I’m traveling. I don’t know if either of those approaches would even work, I just think they are unworkable for being tucked up in bed or on the couch and wanting to watch a movie or part of a TV season by popping a DVD into a player. I don’t want to put the DVD in another machine on the network and “play to” the Surface I don’t want to rip or convert the DVD into some other format that I can access from the Surface with a MicroSD or over the network. I have a Surface RT, I have an external DVD drive with a USB plug, and I have a DVD (actually, quite a few) that I want to watch on it. Question 2: How can I play a DVD using an external drive on a Surface RT? Question 1: Can use external dvd usb on my tablet? Now that Tablet(Android, Apple, Windows 8) have rocked into the mainstream. The question is, what if you’d like to view your favorite DVD movies when on the road? Bringing several discs along tend to be inconvenient, not to mention they jump on the most crucial scenes and are prone to scratches. Enjoy DVD movies using DVD players at home has never been a problem for us.
