PowerDVD 8 Standard [OLD VERSION]

by Cyberlink

Product Features

• "High-Definition Movies". Supports seamless disc navigation, Picture in Picture, widescreen, MPEG-2 HD & WMV-HD.
• "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: 11.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001BLZMMS
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 21, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,423 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 6-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

2.0 out of 5 stars never got it to play dvd, March 9, 2010

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George Wynn Jr. (detroit mi) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PowerDVD 8 Standard [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

having problems getting it to play dvd,i have tried over and over again, no luck.

4.0 out of 5 stars Works well with WinXP MCE or Vista Home Premium, March 1, 2009

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D. Tonya "the_digital_dan" (Barber-tucky, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PowerDVD 8 Standard [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

PowerDVD 8 works fine for home theater PC's utilizing either WinXP MCE 2005 or Vista Home Premium. Simply install PowerDVD and let Windows Media Center handle the rest. I have ripped all 700 of my dvd's to a 6tb hard drive array and I can use Media Center to play back any movie / concert with just a few simple button clicks from my MCE remote.

I don't really use any of the additional features of PowerDVD 8. I find most of the "extra features" to be nothing more than annoying fluff. Just like Windows fluff-ware, I just deactivate it during my inital setup of PowerDVD. I also can't vouch for the changes between earlier versions of PowerDVD and version 8. My previous version of PowerDVD is from 2001, and is thus utterly uncomparable.

I do dock one star for the excessive bloat-ware such as Movie Mix and Moovie Live. These are utterly useless for Home Theater PC use. Also, the application can be initially tricky for the less computer savvy to set up. Make sure that you don't need Blu-Ray support and that you'll be using the digital outputs of your computer to hook up to a Receiver or Preamp-Processor to do the sound decoding.

Other than that, PowerDVD works exactly as needed with Windows Media Center. When properly configured, you'll never see PowerDVD as the integration with Media Center is seamless and flawless.

3.0 out of 5 stars DVD 5 VS DVD 8, February 6, 2009

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RJ Seafood - See all my reviews

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

I like the overall picture quality of Power DVD 8. But I found DVD 5 had much easier player and screen controls. Also DVD 5 was much friendly to use when resizing the picture and when moving the picture around on the LCD or CRT screen.