PowerDVD Platinum

by Avanquest

Product Features

• Rip and burn CDs, create playlists and enjoy your music anywhere
• Enjoy movies and slideshows with optimum video and audio playback on your PC
• Make your digital photos more professional looking with powerful photo editing tools
• Turn photos & video clips into dazzling slideshows and presentations -- Add titles effects, audio, background music and transitions
• Burn all your media files including music, photos, videos and data files onto DVD

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00093NWW6
• Item model number: 3511
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 1, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,579 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Power DVD Platinum is a great new DVD creativity suite. Use it to organize, edit, create and share all your digital information: Capture and edit digital photos, play & share digital audio and watch theater-quality movies. It even lets you make backups of your DVD movies so you can preserve them forever.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING this product is NOT Cyberlink PowerDVD, January 5, 2006

By 

KC Coldbrook - See all my reviews

This review is from: PowerDVD Platinum (CD-ROM)

Although this box says "Cyberlink" on it, this product is NOT from Cyberlink Corp, the makers of PowerDVD. This is an "OEM" version of PowerDVD, sold by "Avanquest", not the real PowerDVD from Cyberlink.

Look at Cyberlink.com and you'll see that they have no such product as PowerDVD Platinum, they have PowerDVD OEM, Standard, and Deluxe. Avanquest's "Platinum" version is considered by Cyberlink to be the lowest OEM version, and it will cost you another $30 to upgrade to Deluxe.

For the $75 it will cost you to buy this deceptively packaged Avanquest product and upgrade to the real Cyberlink version, you could buy a DVD-ROM drive with bundled PowerDVD and upgrade (even if you get bundled PowerDVD 5 it still only costs $30 to upgrade to 6.0 Deluxe). You'd effectively get a free DVD-ROM drive in the bargain.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wish I had read more, May 1, 2006

By 

Branndo - See all my reviews

This review is from: PowerDVD Platinum (CD-ROM)

I wish I had read the previous post. But I didn't and it is true... you just paid $50 for an OEM version. I'll admit that I got suckered.

Beyond that, it does work great. Picture quality is superb, but it will block up on dark areas (to conserve CPU, I assume), which is fairly noticable on LCD's. It also bugs you about upgrading, however, and it's missing quite a few features (the MLP, or DVD-Audio, for example) that because of the box were thought to be included, but no, it's a plug-in that you have to buy.

Do, please, stay far, far, away from this version of PowerDVD.