Dec 23

Corel WinDVD 9 Plus (Blu-ray)

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Corel WinDVD 9 Plus (Blu-ray)
 
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Product Description
WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray is DVD, Blu-ray Disc and video playback software that delivers quality and entertainment in style. Play spectacular Blu-ray and HD DVD discs on your PC, or enjoy standard DVDs with state-of-the-art HD-quality upscaling. Take your movies on the go with advanced battery optimization controls for laptops. Play home movies recorded on the latest high-definition AVCHD camcorders. Choose WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray for the ultimate DVD and video playback experience.

Choose WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray for the ultimate DVD and video playback experience.

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DVD & Video Playback for Today

  • Blu-ray and HD DVD support--Experience stunning high-definition entertainment on your PC.
  • State-of-the-art Upscaling--Play standard DVDs at HD resolution with unique upscaling and motion enhancement.
  • Movies on the Go--Powerful laptop features ensure the best movie experience--wherever you are!
  • Memories--Enjoy the full quality of high-definition home movies recorded with the latest AVCHD or Blu-ray camcorders.

Unique All2HD offers state-of-the-art upscaling.

See more of the action with advanced Digital Natural Motion.

Enjoy your video collection like never before. Watch standard DVD movies at near-HD quality with captivating surround sound.

Watch movies wherever you are.

Play crystal-clear high-definition home movies from the latest AVCHD camcorders.

Stylish Good Looks
The sophisticated graphite interface blends seamlessly with your Windows XP or Vista desktop.

  • New graphite color--Up-to-date and professional look.
  • New layout--A clutter-free and easy-to-navigate interface.
  • Compact mode instantly hides navigation controls to show just your video.
  • Boss Key--Now you see it, now you don't! One click pops the player out of the way.
  • Message Center--Don't miss out on product updates, exclusive offers and fun tips and trick

Technology Powerhouse
Maximize your viewing experience with state-of the-art technologies, such as Blu-ray and HD DVD playback, standard-definition upscaling, and unique features for watching movies on the go.

Blu-ray Disc/HD DVD playback

  • Play high-definition commercial titles with interactive features, or recordable Blu-ray/HD DVD media.
  • Enjoy the immersive entertainment experience of BD-J and HD DVD Advanced Navigation features without interrupting your movie.
  • The first playback software to support the new BD BonusView picture-in-picture features.
  • Supports all Blu-ray and HD DVD video encoding formats, such as MPEG-4-AVC (H.264), MPEG-2, and VC1.
  • Supports HD Audio technologies from Dolby and DTS.
  • Complies with Blu-ray & HD DVD content protection protocols to ensure reliable playback.

Make your standard DVDs look like HD video!

  • Unique All2HD upscaling--convert standard DVDs to crisp high-definition video with outstanding color and clarity.
  • Auto-scaling intelligently tailors playback to fit monitor resolution and refresh rate.
  • Advanced de-interlacing auto-detects film frame rate and ensures crisp edges even on fast-moving objects.
  • Digital Natural Motion--choose from several presets for the smoothest possible playback.
  • Image sharpness can be adjusted for a better-than-original look.

Laptop-friendly

  • Extend playback time with Battery Optimization.
  • Be sure to catch the ending with unique TimeStretch playback.
  • Smart Stretch lets you watch your movies in standard or Widescreen.
  • Enjoy Virtual Surround Sound even when listening on headphones and stereo speakers.

Reduce unsightly playback artifacts and video noise.

Add immersive surround sound audio effects.

WinDVD is the best choice for enjoying movies on the go.

Enhance low-resolution video
Clean up digital artifacts from MPEG, H.264 and VC-1 video

  • De-snow filter removes digital noise from low-resolution video.
  • De-block filter removes blocky digital artifacts from compressed video.

Hardware graphics acceleration
WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray supports display cards featuring ATI AVIVO HD and NVIDIA PureVideo HD technologies that offer hardware-enhanced video playback.

  • Enjoy sharper, more vibrant video images
  • Minimize CPU utilization and power consumption, particularly during playback of Blu-ray/HD DVD discs.
  • Apply advanced de-interlacing
  • Scale videos to any size with high-precision processing

The best of the audio world
WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray supports leading audio technologies for an immersive listening experience.

  • Play HD audio formats like Dolby Digital Plus, uncompressed Dolby TrueHD, and DTS HD for commercial Blu-ray and HD DVD movies.
  • Dolby Pro Logic IIx--Transforms 2-channel (stereo) audio to surround sound, or expands 5.1 sources up to 7.1 speaker systems. Choose Movie or Music modes.
  • Dolby Digital EX--Enjoy 6.1 or 7.1-channel playback with appropriate hardware.
  • DTS surround audio--Supports up to 6 channels of audio for titles with DTS audio
  • SRS audio technologies--Enhance movie dialog or music, or create a virtual surround effect on two speakers with SRS TruSurround.
  • 96 kHz/24-bit audio decoding--Play back audiophile-quality audio.
  • Dolby Virtual Speaker--An advanced psychoacoustics algorithm creates a 5.1 surround sound environment on two speakers.
  • Dolby Headphone--Processes 5.1 audio to create a vivid surround environment on standard headphones.

More video effects and convenient playback controls

  • Video Effects--Customize and improve the look of movies with Cinema Enhancement, Vintage, Sharpness, and more!
  • SmartStretch--Fills your widescreen display when viewing 4:3 movies by intelligently stretching only the edges of the video and maintaining the center portion of the image.
  • Pan & Zoom--WinDVD lets you click and drag to zoom in and pan across any part of the screen to get a closer look.
  • Playlists--Create your own playlists with audio tracks or video files from DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs and CDs.
  • Bookmark favorite spots and save them as a file (.bmk) for later, or send to a friend.
  • UPnP Client--Plays back content from other UPnP-certified devices within a home network, with enhanced thumbnail views of available clips on the network.
  • Capture Image/QuickClip--The new capture controls make it even easier to grab your favorite movie scene as a still picture or animated clip, that you can easily share with friends via email or mobile phone!
  • Instant Replay--Ctrl-B lets you jump back to the line you missed, or catch that action sequence again!
  • Smooth Reverse Playback--WinDVD 9 supports smooth reverse playback without frame drops.

Complete Format support
Enjoy reliable playback of high-definition or standard-definition video recorded from HDTV, camcorder, or downloaded from the Web.

  • Popular video formats--supports DVD-Video, DivX, RealPlayer, QuickTime, Windows Media, and AVI.
  • H.264 Support--Smoothly plays back the next-generation format for premium content and downloaded video, in standard as well as high-definition.
  • HDTV Support--Navigate and play MPEG-2 HD Transport Stream (M2T) video from captured HDTV programs.

Enjoy HD home movies
Today's high-definition camcorders let you record your personal memories in stunning clarity. Play them at full resolution!

  • AVCHD--Supports playback of video from AVCHD camcorders, either copied from the camcorder hard drive, on AVCHD disc, or memory card.
  • Plays HD video recorded on the latest Blu-ray camcorders from Hitachi.
  • HDV video--Play HD video captured from HDV camcorders.
  • Plays video from recordable HD DVD or Blu-ray media such as HD DVD-R, BD-R and RE discs.
  • Plays HD-Rec discs (HD DVD video recorded on standard DVD media).


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WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray WinDVD 9 Plus WinDVD 9 Standard WinDVD 8 Platinum WinDVD 8 Gold
Blu-ray/HD DVD Playback Features
HD DVD Type1/2
HD DVD Advanced Content
BDAV
BDMV/BDJ
BD-RE 3.0
BonusView (BD-Video Profile 1.1)
DD+ 2CH
DD+ multi channel
Dolby TrueHD 2ch
Dolby TrueHD multi channel
DTS-HD 2CH
DTS-HD multi-channel
New Features
New UI Style
SD to HD Conversion
de-snow/de-block
All2HD
Full AVCHD Support
DTS NEO 6
DTS 96K/24bit decoding
Codec/File format support (720p, 1080i)
H.264
VC1
MPEG-2
DivX file playback
DivX subtitle
DVD+VR Playback
VCD/SVCD/DVD-VR Playback
WMV file playback
WMV HD
QuickTime format support
RealPlayer Format
Audio Features
High definition audio decoding
Multi-channel MP3 playback
Dolby Digital 2CH
Dolby Digital 5.1CH
Dolby Digital EX
Dolby Prologic IIX
Dolby Headphone
Dolby Virtual Speaker
DTS 2CH
DTS 6CH
SRS TruSorround XT
SRS Headphone
Video Features
Smooth reverse playback
SmartStretch
Progressive de-interlace
Zoom and Pan
Other Features
Power Saver
LanguageMate
UPnP Client
Notebook Battery Meter
Capture
QuickClip
Thumbnail Bookmark
Time Stretch
PureVideo (HD)
Radeon
NVIDIA PureVideo HD
hardware acceleration
ATI AVIVO HD hardware acceleration

Product Details
  • Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD playback (Blu-ray drive or HD DVD drive required)--Play high-definition commercial titles with interactive features, or recordable Blu-ray/HD DVD media
  • Supports all Blu-ray and HD DVD video encoding formats, such as MPEG-4-AVC (H.264), MPEG-2, and VC1
  • Supports HD Audio technologies from Dolby and DTS including Dolby Digital Plus, uncompressed Dolby TrueHD, and DTS HD for commercial Blu-ray and HD DVD movies
  • Plays video from recordable HD DVD or Blu-ray media such as HD DVD-R, BD-R and RE discs; play standard DVDs at HD resolution with unique upscaling and motion enhancement
  • Includes all the features and capabilites of the WinDVD 9 Plus

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Customer Reviews
Beautiful. Longtime Nero user has found a new viewer
 
Review Date: September 18, 2008
Reviewer: Water Monkey, Santa Clarita, Ca.
I am not someone who watches many DVDs on my computer (that's what my LCD is for). Currently I have Nero 8 on my PC (Dell 710 XPS H2C with dual 768mb graphics cards) and I have only been mildly pleased with it. The video quality never seemed very good (comparing to my LCD TV).

I was anxious to see what WinDVD would be like. Well, installation was smooth. Everything installed nicely. Upon completion I popped in a couple of DVDs and ran them through Nero and WinDVD. At best I was expecting them to be the same; I was in for a pleasent surprise. There was a definite improvement in the video quality with WinDVD, everything looked sharper.

I was having a problem with Nero not playing menu systems back properly. Many times the menus would have nasty green lines in them. This did not happen with WinDVD.

WinDVD is simple to use. The controls are straight forward. Using WinDVD was nothing but a pleasure and I would highly recommend it to everyone.
Best Experience Yet For Watching Movies on PC
 
Review Date: September 8, 2008
Reviewer: Nathan M. Rose, Delray Beach, FL United States
I have used many products to play DVDs over the years. Most have done the job adequately, however I never really saw the computer monitor as a replacement for watching a DVD on television. This has changed with WinDVD9, not only does it do a great job upscaling my DVDs, but it is actually a better Blu-ray player than my PS3. Since I have installed this software I have even removed my trusty old DVD software that I have been using for quite some time.
Works Fine on My Machine
 
Review Date: September 18, 2008
Reviewer: R. Thomasson, Kansas
I have a Dell Inspiron 530 with dual core processor, 2-gigs of ram and Vista Home Premium, an after market video card with tons of video ram and an internal Blu-ray player.

The machine is only three months old, so I take it the Vista install is pretty much the latest going. The Win DVD install took just a few minutes and progressed with no issues.

The software played several of my Blu-ray disks with no problem. The picture was clear and true. I wont waste space here going over the same issues covered in other reviews and in the package description.

I do want to mention how impressed I was with the up-converting of standard DVDs by this package. I own an up-converting DVD deck and have never been very impressed with the picture quality it produced (in fact I really couldn't tell any difference).

There is a substantial increase in quality of picture with WinDVD's up-converter. It is really noticeable

I'm not sure the feature set here is worth the money, but if you think it's what you're looking for, WinDVD 9 plus does what the manufacturer says it will.
Far Better than some of the reviews indicate
 
Review Date: September 18, 2008
Reviewer: Daniel Orr, Great Mills, md United States
As an analyst I tend to take things apart and be critical of even the smallest things. Before I began looking at this product I read all the reviews to see if I could reproduce any of the problems others had encountered. None of the problems in other reviews manifested themselves. I am running a Dell system with Vista Ultimate, 4G of Ram, a 500GB HD and two LCD displays. One of the displays is HD and the other is not. I tested all features on both screens.

The application installed without a hitch. I did screen shots of each of the install screens, all feature menus and parts of some of the movies I viewed. The problem I found was that the screen shots of the movies were not as high quality as what I was seeing on screen so they were of little use. I found that the menu items were very intuitive and provided very nice options. I do not have a BluRay DVD drive so I was unable to test that aspect of the application. Once I get a BluRay drive I will post an evaluation of that feature. However I do have a BluRay DVD player on my LCD flat panel TV and tried to compare the output of the computer/WinDVD to the TV. The WinDVD produced a very high quality result and the interface was far better and faster than what Media Player produced. All in all I found this product to be high quality, stable (it did not crash, skip or lockup) and delivers what it claims.

Addendum: I have used the product for a while now and really love it. I have two flat screens a 22in non high def and a 24 inch HD so I have compared the output and done some other analysis and found the quality of the product to be first rate, The only problem I have had is when I am dragging the window from one screen to another it sometimes crashes the app. All that being said these things are probably machine based rather than software based.

ADDENDUM 2: I recently switched to Windows 7 and this product installed and worked well. It plays Blu-ray disks much better than Power DVD which was already on my system. ONe note. It appears that this application looks to find out if your displays can display 1080p and if it doesn't see it then it skips a bit. Once I set my displays to HD 1080P it worked great.
WinDVD 9 is a Winner
 
Review Date: September 18, 2008
Reviewer: M,
I have to admit, I was not expecting much out of this. I feared the worse, such as error messages and my system freezing, etc... yes, I am a pessimist. But, I am quite surprised and pleased.

First of all, it plays anything. I was thinking this was disc only, but will support most every file format and can possibly replace any other media player you have enough to remove it... giving you more space.

Obviously the appeal to this version is the ability to play "Blu-Ray". But, I have to say, normal DVDs look a heck of a lot better and clearer. Everything looks better. You have better control of contrast, color etc. It really turns your computer into a great media-center.

I decided to dig up discs that just would not play on my laptop, and whatever this software did, I have no idea, but I can now run anything. So this actually resolves issues, and did not create them... that's a first!

There is no learning curve here, and you can buy without having to worry about anything technical. Just install it, and when you play your media, you will have full control of what you are doing or watching.

I am thinking the list price is a bit much. I would say about half the LIST price would be a good deal. So it's about 4.5 stars. But based on my personal result, it's worth 5. If it's at least 25% off list, I would say it's a good buy.

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Dec 23

PowerDVD 8 Ultra [OLD VERSION]

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PowerDVD 8 Ultra [OLD VERSION]
 
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Product Description
The No. 1 DVD and Blu-ray Experience on th PC. New Dimentions in Movie Entertainment. PowerDVD 8 Ultra 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 Ultra delivers uncompromising quality for movie playback on the PC. Support for Blu-ray Discs 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.

Product Details
  • "High-Definition Movies". Supports Blu-ray, AVCHD, MPEG-2 HD, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), Dolby TrueHD 7.1 ch, EX 7.1 ch and 5.1 ch, seamless disc navigation, Picture in Picture, widescreen, highdefinition output, etc.
  • "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.

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