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I am not a big fan of Microsoft's Windows Media Player (WMP) but it does a pretty good job at playing DVDs.

I do not like or use proprietary file formats like Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Video (WMV). For audio I use ogg vorbis and FLAC. I have never ripped a music CD into WMA and I don't ever intend to either. Furthermore WMP's GUI and navigation are horrible. It was a pain just to find a few online radio stations to bookmark.

Anyway when I rented The Grand recently I thought that I would give WMP a try for DVDs and I was pleasantly surprised. WMP is easy to use. You double click on the movie to get full screen and when you leave the mouse alone the player's controls automatically disappear. Of course when you move the mouse they reappear and hitting the 'ESC' key takes you out of full screen mode.

I don't know about you but that's just about all I need for DVD play-back so I'll probably continue to use WMP for DVDs.