Full stop the ability to read video DVDs was a feature Nintendo added, not a bug they just never used it themselves they removed it from the drive firmware of later Wiis, and presumably the Wii U too #2Wii U has the ability to play bluray/dvd, the drive is in fact a blu ray drive However it doesn't have the software to do so Unless someone hacks it and makes a homebrew bluray/dvd player software Nintendo doesn't want to pay licensing fees to dvd/blu ray associations to have video playback User Info Thunderbird8 Insert a DVD into the DVDROM drive and launch the program you just installed Then click on "DVD Disc" to load the DVD you want to play on Wii U This software will automatically analyze, decrypt DVD and tick the main title of the movie Step 2 Convert DVD
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