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PowerDVD Platinum

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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.

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.