PowerDVD 8 Deluxe [OLD VERSION]

by Cyberlink

Product Features

• "High-Definition Movies". Supports seamless disc navigation, Picture in Picture, widescreen, highdefinition output.
• "Movie Collection". Lets users build a database of movie info and trivia, write reviews, and rate their favorite movies.
• "MoovieLive". An online platform allowing users to share their content: write and upload movie reviews, rate movies and remixes, and enrich their movie collection with new disc info that they can aquire online.
• "Movie Remixes". Lets users reorder DVD scenes into new story sequences. A library of objects, and tools for creating subtitles, allows users to add new elements to each scene.
• "Award-winning DVD Features". Say-It-Again automatically repeats the last movie scene. Read-It-Clearly lets users select to watch the subtitles of 16:9 DVD within the black bars on the top and bottom of their monitor.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001BLZNVS
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 24, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,965 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

"The No. 1 DVD Experience on th PC. New Dimentions in Movie Entertainment. PowerDVD 8 delivers new dimensions in the way consumers can enjoy their movies. In addition to offering industry-leading movie playback quality, PowerDVD now extends the movie experience with an online web service called MoovieLive. And by offering a new concept of movie remixing with that of watching movies, users can create and share the movie entertainment experience any way they want. PowerDVD 8 delivers uncompromising quality for movie playback on the PC. It offers a new world of movie features, including seamless disc navigation, Picture in Picture support, and movie extras. Widescreen, highdefinition output supports the latest HD displays. And with support for 8-channel high-definition audio, users can enjoy a true home theater experience via their PC. PowerDVD 8's Movie Collection feature lets users build a database of movie info and trivia, write reviews, and rate their favorite movies. In conjunction with PowerDVD's online platform - called MoovieLive - users can sync their database with other user's info, upload and download movie remix files, and read and rate other people's reviews. PowerDVD 8's next-generation movie book-marking feature - called Movie Remix - lets users reorder DVD scenes into new story sequences. A library of objects, and tools for creating subtitles, allows users to add new elements to each scene. Users can save their movie remix file to watch their creation later or to share on MoovieLive.com."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite DVD playback software, August 28, 2008

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L. Ai - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PowerDVD 8 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I've used PowerDVD for many years. It works quite well and supports the wide variety of media that I want to play. This new version is no exception. It supports formats like MPEG-4 AVC and DivX Pro, the HD detail is quite satisfying.



Audio-wise, PowerDVD works fine on 7.1 ch and 5.1 ch. No complaints.



The thing I like particularly is the feature called "Do It Smart" with which I can move subtitles and repeat dialogs.



As for the new "Remix" function. It might be fun but I don't find any time to try it yet.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars DVD playback, awesome. Blu-ray playback, iffy at best., January 4, 2009

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WorknMan "worknman" (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PowerDVD 8 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I've been using PowerDVD since around version 2, and it's always worked quite nicely for DVDs. In fact, I'd say it's just about perfect. Blu-ray is another story, however.

When I first tried playing a Blu-ray, the program just shut down... no error message or anything. After checking out their support page, I downloaded and installed the latest patch (2217a as of this writing). Now I am able to play movies pretty smoothly under XP (w/SP3), but it's definitely rough around the edges.

I keep running into little glitches here and there, like shortcut keys not working at all (such as S for stop and spacebar for pause). Also, the auto reume feature, which works flawlessly on DVDs, only works when it wants to on Blu-rays (which is not very often). This means that if you ever press stop during a movie, when you press play again without shutting down the program, it starts at the beginning of the disc instead of resuming where it left off. Sometimes the menu screen won't come up when I want it to and once, while watching Incredible Hulk, I had to pause the movie for a few minutes. When I came back, the Universal 'screen saver' was on, so I pressed play again, but the player did nothing... completely locked up. I had to shut it down and restart it, which means I had to start over again from the beginning.

In a nutshell, this program gets 5 starts for DVD playback and 2 for Blu-ray, hence the reason why I'm giving it 3 stars. The Blu-ray playback is so glitchy that, even though the picture looks better, I'd still prefer to watch DVDs, since Blu-ray is just a hassle to deal with using this program.

Note: I also tried WinDVD v9, which didn't work at all for me. I am not aware of any other alternatives.

5.0 out of 5 stars Cyberlink Power DVD 8, May 28, 2011

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John Dinger "espresso" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PowerDVD 8 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I was hesitant about installing Power DVD after seeing the CPU speed requirements of 2.4 GHz for winXP. My unit is 2.0 GHz and I found the program to work flawlessly. I then tried it on my laptop which is 1.8 GHz, also winXP, and also had the same results, no problems at all. I do not do Blueray, so I can't comment on that aspect, but for what I do it works just fine, and have found that it plays a lot of content that Windows Media Player just can't play.PowerDirector 8 Deluxe