Corel WinDVD Pro 2010 [OLD VERSION]

by Corel

Product Features

• COREL CORPORATION WDPR2010ENMB WINDVD PRO 2010 EN MINI BOX

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002J9PO4C
• Item model number: WDPR2010ENMB
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 23, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,139 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Bring the movie theater experience to your PC with Corel WinDVD 2010, the world’s #1 DVD & video playback software! Enjoy standard or high-definition DVDs and Dolby Digital sound. Play almost any video format, including DVD-Video, DivX, RealPlayer, QuickTime and Windows Media. Bookmark your favorite scenes and go back to them anytime. Playback videos directly from devices like your camera, camcorder or from DVD. Plus, watch entire movies on the go thanks to battery optimization for laptops.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

57 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars there's good news and bad news, October 17, 2009

By 

TheLyingThief (seattle, Wa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corel WinDVD Pro 2010 [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

The good news: the software performs beautifully...when it performs--picture quality is excellent, and, to my eye, tangibly superior to its competitors.

First, let me state that my desktop is state of the art: I am using an nvidia graphics card (>400 dollars), an i7 cpu, 12 gigs of ram, and a completely updated vista-64 OS, including the most recent drivers. I am not experiencing any problems with any of my other major software packages, e.g., cs4 (heavily graphics card dependent), office, or visual studio. So, I think it very unlikely that the source of the following problem resides any where other than the product under review.

With that said, here's the bad news: I average 1 complete computer freeze per day using the program, and it is a freeze requiring reboot, i. e., the freeze is pre-emptive: I cannot access any other menu, not even the task manager. The stalled program presents the usual "would you like to transmit details of the issue to the publisher of the program" form, but I cannot make selections in that menu. I have deleted and reinstalled the software several times, including a thorough, manual cleanse of any detritus left in the registry by the uninstall. My efforts proved a waste of time. I had surmised that complete lock-ups of my computer were events XP had made a residue of the past. Not so, friends! Corel has re-introduced them!!

On the cosmetic and customer usage side, many of the menu choices, and several of the stylistic elements that made the precursor, winDVD-9, so attractive to me have changed or disappeared. For instance, I like to run a video in a reduced window when I am writing code, playing mah jong, and the like. This version no longer permits me to toggle the playback's display control panel on and off, so that forces me to commit more display real estate than I wish--it is a small grievance, but aggravating. Another incidental aggravation is the help window. The user is presented with a control panel that blanks out the center of the display, and asks him to select a help link, which then opens another window, and both windows remain visible. Who implemented this program? The boss' niece?

I had great hopes for this software, thinking it would build on the previous versions' excellent picture quality and user friendliness. Alas, not to be. In fact, it completely misreads and misimplements the icc profile I have created for this monitor using color calibration hardware--I managed to tweak the picture using the nVidia control panel, but you might not be able to do this. I did not see these visual problems with windvd_9 on this same configuration. Why don't I continue using the previous version, you ask? That version doesn't play all blu-rays, since the standards for this technology are still in flux, and Corel is unwilling to provide the updates to maintain that program's usefulness. Now, doesn't that stand to reason?

The corker to all this, as I see it, is the virtual isolation of the technical support staff from the consumer. There is a 15 dollar charge for direct telephone assistance charged incrementally (hey, my 100 dollar program cost me 300 dollars in support to finally understand that it fails altogether! Now, that's what I call business ethics!!); and internet based email support is sub-standard, with lag times of 48 to 96 hours between posting your request and a reply. Add to this, that the advice is almost never useful, (it hasn't been for me, at any rate) merely advising the user to read, say, the FAQ on how to install, or how to turn it on, or some other equally trivial, irrelevant advice.

I cannot recommend this software to prospective buyers until it is revised and re-marketed.

Serious flaws.

tlt-

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nearly unusable, October 18, 2009

By 

Rick P. Trebino "Rick T" (Atlanta GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corel WinDVD Pro 2010 [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

While I haven't experienced any crashes, the user interface of WinDVD Pro 2010 is so slow and limited in scope that it's utterly unusable. Simply opening a file is a complex chore. Several features universally present that help scrolling through files are missing. Worse, many capabilities useful for navigating through a movie that were present in the old Intervideo WinDVD interface are now gone. Save your money.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Disaster, November 13, 2009

By 

Mr. Lucky (Studio City, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corel WinDVD Pro 2010 [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

If you want something that locks up, crashes your system and doesn't function properly... then this is a home run. WinDVD was better when Intervideo ran it. This product should not have been released and it definitely doesn't work with Windows 7. Even worse, you can't get rid of previous installs.