DVD Player 3.0

by Honest Technology

Product Features

• Simple yet powerful DVD player with user-friendly interface
• Support for 16:9 widescreen format; adjustable screen size
• Dolby Digital 5.1; audio AC-3; Pro Logic II support
• Displays movie titles, chapters, and playback time
• Supports DVD, VCD, and SVCD; parental control

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000RLSR1G
• Item model number: HDP3M
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,471 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com

DVD Player 3.0 is a simple yet powerful DVD player with features such as support for 16:9 widescreen format, adjustable screen size, Dolby Digital 5.1, audio AC-3, and Pro Logic II support. DVD Player 3.0 also supports DVD, VCD, and SVCD, has parental controls, and a user-friendly interface.

Features:

• Displays movie titles, chapters, and playback time
• Different skins for user interface available
• Supports DVD, VCD, and SVCD
• Easy volume control and chapter scanning
• Screen capture
• Parental control
• Supports multimedia keyboard
• Supports SPDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface)
• Dolby Digital Audio: AC-3 and Dolby Pro Logic II
• Mute
• Snap viewer
• Auto bookmark
• Quick stealth

Product Description

DVD Player 3.0 is a simple yet powerful DVD Player with powerful features such as support for 16:9 widescreen format, adjustable screen size, Dolby Digital 5.1, audio AC-3, and Pro Logic II support. DVD Player 3.0 also supports DVD, VCD and SVCD, has parental controls, and a user friendly interface.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad Program, February 27, 2008

By 

BobbyT (Brookings, OR USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: DVD Player 3.0 (CD-ROM)

I only tried this program with the VISTA operating so I can't speak for any of the others.

This program gets one star only because there is no provision for negative numbers.

The following problems were verified by Honestech tech support when I called them:

Screen capture files were unavailable to any programs other than the built in viewer. You can't print them or use them in any other way.

You can't single frame backward. If you overshoot the frame you were looking for you must use rewind to go back.

When using rewind there is no video, only a decrementing elapsed-time clock making it very difficult to find a particular frame.

When you do find a frame you want to capture you can't do a capture when paused, only when the dvd is playing.

The user manual references a "snaps" folder where screen captures are placed. The "snaps" folder doesn't exist. Tech support doesn't know where the screen captures are.

The only way to observe screen captures is with small, thumbnail, images.

Why make the capture if you can't use it?

The user manual contains information that, according to tech support, shouldn't be in there.

This program is not recommended for the VISTA operating system.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Works. A Big Plus ..., December 26, 2007

By 

G. S. Kennedy "Steve Kennedy" (Houston, TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DVD Player 3.0 (CD-ROM)

This software plays DVD's with 5.1 surround sound on my laptop, using my PCMCIA Creative Labs Audigy 2 Notebook audio card. That may sound trivial, but I have yet to get Windows Media Player 11 to do that, after trying every possible combination of settings. Several times. OK, maybe I'm too slow to find the right combination ... I don't care.

The simple interface (menu and context = onscreen right click) makes everyting immediately accessible. Unlike ... well, you know. At least InterVideo WinDVD (another software DVD player that came with my laptop I think) tells me it won't work (licensed only for 2 channel audio, send money for 5.1).

Its not like 5.1 sound just came out. Just buy this and save yourself the aggravation ...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars $100 hassle for a $20 product, February 4, 2010

By 

Who? "indeed, who" (MN United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: DVD Player 3.0 (CD-ROM)

This is cheap, generic dvd player software. While it was easy to install - actually getting to the point where you can use it is MASSIVELY frustrating.

Not only do you need to enter a 25 character product key in at least three times, you've also got to go online and get a registration key. Without the key, the software doesn't work. And - it takes them HOURS to send it.

If I had known it would be this big a PIA to use this - I'd have saved a lot of time and bought shareware online.