1080p MKV playback Tips for Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro tablet
 

The Microsoft Surface Pro was designed to give users a true tablet experience AND a true PC experience with a surprisingly powerful hardware. In that regards, there are no compromises and both goals are achieved rather nicely.In my opinion, this is a great machine for folks who mainly want an ultra-portable and 100% PC-compatible device that can deal with everything work will throw at them. For this, I’m confident that there is simply nothing better out there. You get the real Outlook and any other PC app that your company may require, including exotic VPN accesses, printer drivers etc. This *is* a PC. The ultra-productive and solid design will complement the software capabilities perfectly.

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Surface Pro uses a 1080p (1920×1080) IPS LCD display. This is great because everything looks a lot sharper. However, the built-in video app only supports playing a few media format. In fact, if you always watch movie clips and videos in Windows Media Player, you should notice Windows 8 does not supports .MKV file on your Surface Pro tablet or computer. To watch more movie files on Microsoft Surface Pro, you need to download and install a Video converter app for your Windows 8 tablet. The best Video Convert app for Surface Pro is the highly recommended software for you. With it, you can fast choose the optimal preset profile for Surface with Windows 8 Pro and then convert 1080p/720p MKV to a Microsoft Surface Pro friendly format MP4 for easy playback.

Tutorial on Viewing 1080p/720p MKV movie files on Surface with Windows 8 Pro .

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Step 1: Run the MKV to Microsoft Surface Pro Converter on your computer and then import your 1080p/720p MKV files to it.

Step 2: Tap the Format icon and from its dropdown menu, click and select Windows > Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 Video (*.mp4) as the output format.

Step 3: Click the Convert icon to start encoding MKV to Surface Windows 8 Pro at fast speed with the CUDA/AMD acceleration technology support.

When the conversion ends, click the Open button in the main interface, and you can convert 1080p/720p MKV movies on Surface Pro Windows 8 at ease.

Tip:
If you wanna get Blu-ray, DVD and other video files on Surface Windows 8 Pro, you’d better choose this package tool Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate to make the BD/DVD/Video to Surface Pro conversion.

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