Thanks John and others for your input.

The laptop in question, Toshiba Tecra 8000 came with Windows 95 preinstalled and we replaced it with NT and Toshiba now tells us there are no drivers for NT and is completely not supported. We asked the user if he wanted us to replace his system with Windows 95 and give up using it for few days while we reinstall everything or not play movies and he chose former.

>Hi John...
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>It depends on what you want to do. As a pure high capacity drive, NT will usually have no problems as long as the vendor provides drivers.
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>Howerver, providing DVD Drivers does not necessarily mean that you can play movies. I found this out the hard way. I don't know if this is what you are looking for. In this case, you need something called a DVD-Decoder. There are hardware and software decoders.
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>I have moved to Windows 2000, and because of that, this issue has been taken care of. I use WinDVD from InterVideo. They support everything, including Windows NT.
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>I found the whole NT/DVD thing frustrating. Most developers use, or should use NT. MSDN comes out on DVD now. That is a blessing!! Why the native support from MS was never there is beyond me...
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