Cyberlink PowerDVD

The best of the best DVD players available for your computer. This may seem a bit excessive for what is essentially something that lets you play a DVD now and then but it does it so well. Where other player are bulky and cumbersome power DVD is simplistic and easy to use. The small control panel hides itself while the film is playing and is easily brought up by the click of the mouse anywhere on the screen. During playback you can check the progress of the film by simply moving the mouse to the top of the screen. This brings down a slider showing your position. If you want to skip forwards or backwards, there is no need to open the panel and click ...  Read the complete review

Playing DVDs is now much more simple on a Windows PC these days, now that Microsoft has included DVD playback capability in Vista - only 10 years after the launch of the first DVD. Cyberlink has introduced PowerDVD 8. Of the three version available, the Ultra edition incorporates support for Mpeg4, AVC, AVCHD and Blue-ray. Another very nice feature that has been added to the software is the Movie Remix that allows you to mash up parts of normal films to make a video. With the Movie Remix feature you can even do some special editting such as adding captions, graphics and even voiceovers to existing DVD films. The unique features ...  Read the complete review

PowerDVD is a very useful to play CD's and DVD's, it is the best one because it have one useful thing that it can forward the movie with 32 different speeds and rewind with 32 different speeds and also with sound speed control and very easy to use

i had my pc a year ago and i found that i had powerdvd installed on it. the software is really cool and simple to use. it fearures a front of a dvd type uservinterface with makes contraooling the pcture and sound very easy and simple to work. i then saw an ad for powerdvd xp, which i couldnt find aywhere, but i found it on ebay. powerdvd is a the ultimate dvd program, my friend has windvd and it comes no where near the quality of powerdvd. powerdvd also includs profiles so you can change the brightness of the pcture, useful if the picture is pretty dark. it also includes something really cool, if you eject a dvd without it finishes powerdvd will give you the choice of ...  Read the complete review

I first got a DVD-ROM drive about 4 years ago and it came with software that was terrible. It needed a very powerful PC and I had a humble Pentium II at the time. I had also just installed a new Soundblaster Live at the time. I invested in a hardware decoder and to my dismay and annoyance, it didn't work with the soundcard - it got boxed up and the drive was used mainly for accessing CD's. 2 years on and several upgrades later I came across PowerDVD. A small package that allows playback of DVD's and what a treat it is to use. It worked well and is packed with features, playing not only DVD's but video CD's and mpeg files as well. You ...  Read the complete review