1. How to Play DVD on MacBook Pro with A Hard Drive
It's very simple to watch your DVDs, especially the old discs, on MacBook Pro with a disc drive. Just insert a DVD into the drive, and the default DVD player app included with Mac OS X will open it automatically and display the DVD menu. Click the chapter you want to play and click the play button, you will start enjoying DVD movies on your MacBook Pro/Retina. If your MacBook Pro has no disc drive, skip to the next part. Tips: if you are encountering problems, for example, DVD is ejected, DVD player quits unexpectedly, MacBook Pro DVD player not working, DVD won't play correctly, a blank DVD error, read guide to fix DVD won't play on Mac.
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Instead of a regular hard drive disk, the MacBook Air has a (moderately more expensive) SSD drive, and the optical CD/DVD drive has been removed entirely.
There're several ways to ensure a smooth DVD watching experience if your Mac computer doesn't have an optical drive, for example, buy an external DVD drive, use remote Disc sharing, the latter doesn't support some commercial disc. Many hate to lug a DVD drive around. The most convenient way to play DVD on MacBook Pro would be rip movie content off DVD disc and save it to MacBook Pro hard drive in the format like MP4, MOV or M4V.