Cyberlink Shows-Off Blu-ray ''Upscaling''

First of all, I must apologise for being negative, but PowerDVD REALLY annoys the living crap out of me, what with it's constant nagging pop-ups to upgrade, stopping Blu-ray playback from a folder, increased faffing when trying to play a backed up dvd etc. I own four paid for licences and I REALLY don't know why.

Don't even mention the updates... why call them updates when you're basically downloading the entire package again!

More fool me for parting with my money.

P.s. new features look great

damianrobertjonesFirst of all, I must apologise for being negative, but PowerDVD REALLY annoys the living crap out of me, what with it's constant nagging pop-ups to upgrade, stopping Blu-ray playback from a folder, increased faffing when trying to play a backed up dvd etc. I own four paid for licences and I REALLY don't know why.Don't even mention the updates... why call them updates when you're basically downloading the entire package again!More fool me for parting with my money.P.s. new features look great
not enough competition in that department. im satisfied with my free VLC player

These players that people actually pay for are just as pointless as the "Security Suites" that are still carrying a price-tag. VLC, KMPlayer, and MPC-HC are just some of the fantastic options out there which, in many ways, are superior to anything that you have to pay for out there. These free players have come a very long way in the last few years and are not only easy and safe, but offer superior picture and audio decoding, take full advantage of modern (and hot) technologies (CUDA, DXVA, DTS-HD, etc) that are not even correctly (or at all) deployed in many of those expensive, bloated and downright broken suites that cost around $100! These rip-off players are all flash and no substance... don't believe me? Just try one of the free ones and you'll understand right away what I'm talking about.

omnimodis78These free players have come a very long way in the last few years and are not only easy and safe, but offer superior picture and audio decoding, take full advantage of modern (and hot) technologies (CUDA, DXVA, DTS-HD, etc) that are not even correctly (or at all) deployed in many of those expensive, bloated and downright broken suites that cost around $100!
Just a small correction but the only thing the free players cannot do currently is decode DTS-HD and TrueHD tracks (just the core) otherwise i agree with everything else (unless they can bit-stream to a decoder but my current 4850 cannot do this so i am unsure). it is simply appalling when a company that sells software creates such a large program when a free alternative is tiny in comparison and does the job better, good example is Adobe Reader 200MB+ on hdd and foxit 10.5MB or even sumatra