PowerDVD 8.0

Publisher's Description:

PowerDVD is a software DVD player that offers the solution to enjoy personalized DVD entertainment on the PC. Its high quality video and audio playback has made it one of the most reliable.

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	Fafner76	Apr 5, 2008
Version:	8.0
Got PowerDVD Ultra 7 less than 2 months ago. Asked them if there is a special upgrade policy for those who got the previous version recently 1 week ago; still any reply. Anyways, that's not the reason I'm giving it 1. The reason is HD-DVD support drop. My BR writer does read HD-DVD ROMs too, and i have some films on this support. Now, I understand this is now a dead format (but this was announced few weeks ago, not 2 years ago), but then why not keep the previous version's implementation and just stop developing it instead of such an usual "make ppl change their hardware/media" move? I'll stick to the 7.0 version...
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Reviewer:	Tenoq	Apr 3, 2008
Version:	8.0
But not ALL h264 files, right BB88? The problem with h264 is they haven't settled on a common standard for ripping yet - some people are still doing some AWESOME high quality rips that can't be video-accelerated by ANY software, let alone PDVD. Have they fixed the bug with mkv files yet?
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Reviewer:	BB88	Apr 3, 2008
Version:	8.0
True that it's a bit slow to startup, but it's probably the only player that truely support hardware HD decoding for many people out there with video cards that support AVIVO and PureVideo HD. 1-5% CPU usage playing 1080 H.264 files! Hope that it will be bundled with more video card for free, and full-featured.
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Reviewer:	DudeBoyz	Apr 2, 2008
Version:	8.0
Too much money for what you get. $19.99 - maybe - but you can gree players without all the bloat. I still use WinDVD 5, by golly. Came bundled with something and I haven't looked back since. Besides, I'm not nearly as much into watching DVD movies on my computer since I switched to LCD. I prefer watching them on my regular 32" 4:3 television (with a tube and all). Yeah, it works, but it is simply not a good value anymore, imo.
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Reviewer:	Skyfrog	Mar 5, 2008
Version:	8.0.222 Beta
They just keep bloating it to justify continuing to sell a useless program to people. In 1998 this was a great program to have but there's really no need for a special program just for playing DVDs today, and paying $50 for one is ludicrous.
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