Customer Reviews

PowerDVD 9 Standard

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My problem with PowerDVD: I have 2 displays: primary (computer monitor), and secondary (TV). PowerDVD was working ok on TV for some time. But, after TV had been disconnected for a few minutes (of course, it is reconnected), PowerDVD stopped working. My secondary display (TV) is connected correctly because I have a dozen other applications that work with TV without any problem. The only problem is PowerDVD.

I contacted Cyberlink's support. First few advices were how to connect secondary display. Obviously, it is not my issue because I have many other apps working with TV. The last advice was to reinstall all drivers, remove all codecs, reinstall PowerDVD... They must be kidding me. The number of actions and involved time is almost like installing the system from scratch.

Right out of the box this program has NOT WORKED. I have updated my bios, dvd, display driver, all to no avail. My new dvd player came with Nero 7. Worked fine no tweeking needed. I would like to have audio for the playback, but I spent my money on PowerDVD.

Player freezes quite often. This is true whether one watches DVD from the DVD player in the PC or directly from a hard disk. Quite a pain.

Cyberlink is more interested in downloading their advertisements

AFter I put in the blu-ray DVD and ready to watch, Cyberlink forces the user to update the product, only to download a more ads and their own version of preview, and taking more than 30 minutes and still couldn't watch my own movie!

Don't waste your money and time.

I had to upgrade because I had been using Cyberlink PowerDVD 6 and it wasnt quite compatible with vista. I used it and love it most of all the movie players. I can control the video better in this powerdvd but 6 kept having to change to Vista Basic scheme as it isnt compatible with that version. I took the plunge and went for the standard version of 9 and it suits me just fine. A little too much with the movie and remix junk i will not use but the funcions are similar but better than the control i had in 6. much better sound and some better TruTheater capabilities for the new movies and for HD type dvd. I havent used any hd /blue ray discs so do not know what is up with them but i have watched new movies on my monitor 1650x1050 near real 1080hd but regardless, I could see such detail in the movie i couldnt believe it. I have no desire to make my own home movies so this was just fine and i use other recode for making my copies or removing codes excess from whatever else I may mix up and copy. I have others (KMP which is good but more labor intensive, NERO I do not use except to burn the odd dvd Toshiba dvd player came with the computer ) I have been happy with clone dvd and any dvd. I have WMP and WMC but rarely use them as they do not compare to the PowerDvd for bottom line ease of use and best control of tweaking differences between and among different era movies and color resolution production qualities.