Thanks for the help. Unfortunately when I bought my new laptop (HP envy) they told me that the LG SP60NB50 would do everything I needed. So I bought both, and the DVD Writer is great, but I was led to believe it would play DVD's as well. So now I am not sure what to do.
If I download the VLC will this let me play a DVD off of the DVD Writer? The computer I bought does not have an internal drive. Thanks again for the help!!!!!!!!!!!