With a 10.6-inch 16:9 widescreen ClearType HD display, Microsoft Surface Tablet can bring you great visual experience especially for watching HD videos on the tablet. Plus, the Surface tablet features the Tegra 3 processor with strong hard decoding ability that makes it powerful enough to play full HD 1080p or 720p videos smoothly.

Although Microsoft Surface can support HD video with no pressure, but it's a pity the users are not satisfied with the Microsoft Surface video formats: AVI, WMV, MPEG-4, H.264 and QuickTime. MKV, MTS, M2TS, FLV, TiVo, etc can’t be recognized by the Surface yet. Plus, during the actual playback, for 1080p video, if pull progress bar, it will obviously get stuck once, then will continue to play normally. Then how to experience unparalleled high quality videos on it?

The current Surface RT doesn’t have any choice in video player and its built-in player is insufficient still slightly. If you want to get 1080p video on Microsoft Surface with smooth playback, you have to get the help through third-party software. Microsoft Surface Video Converter will be the easy solution to get rid of the problem for you. It is especially designed to convert videos upto 1080p in various formats including but not limit to .mkv, .mts, .m2ts, .flv, .avi, .wmv, .3gp, .mpg, etc to Microsoft Surface supported video formats like MP4 on Windows PC.

Guide: Convert 1080p movies to Microsoft Surface with the best format and settings

First, download and install the smart Video Converter for Microsoft Surface, click “Add video” icon to import your source files. It supports batch conversion.

Secondly, click the Format bar, follow Windows > Microsoft Surface Windows RT H.264 Video (*.mp4), which is the best output format for Microsoft Surface. If you like, you can click “Settings” to change the video size as 1366*768 to exactly fit the Microsoft Surface screen resolution to get a full-screen playback on Microsoft Surface tablet.

Finally, hit the Convert button; it will start the 1080p .mkv, .mts, .m2ts to Microsoft Surface conversion immediately.

After the process, get the generated video via tapping the Open button in the main interface and then transfer the videos to your Surface Tablet via USB cable. In this way, you can effortlessly play 1080p videos on Microsoft Surface as you like.

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