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#POWERDVD 17 REVIEW HOW TO#However, I've since written a guide that allows you to get back HD DVD support under the retail version of PowerDVD 8 - read the guide to find out how to re-enable HD DVD playback under PowerDVD 8 Ultra. The previous Ultra edition of PowerDVD supported HD DVD playback, and while HD DVD has died a relatively quick death as a format, it still doesn't fully explain why PowerDVD 8 Ultra has removed playback functionalities, not when competitors such as WinDVD and Arcsoft Totalmedia Theater are both keeping the HD DVD playback functions intact. Now that most surprising exclusion from PowerDVD 8 has been HD DVD support. Whether it becomes popular or not, depends on user participation, although it won't really be a threat to edited movies on YouTube. Overall, this is a fun feature and it's fairly easy to use. This way, you can download other people's remixes quickly without having to download any video, assuming their remixes are based on the same disc as yours (at least the same timing). ![]() #POWERDVD 17 REVIEW MOVIE#The actual movie doesn't get saved/uploaded, it's only the set of changes you have made to them (basically a text file stating which objects you added, where they are added on screen, start/end times and other information). Once you have made your changes, you can save them to file or even upload your changes online. The interface is easy to use, if a bit sluggish on my (not so powerful) PC. A little less flexible than WinDVD's mouse drag zoom functions, but possibly more practical as WinDVD 9 didn't allow for widescreen to fullscreen conversion. The mouse can then be used to pan the zoomed area. You can select to zoom widescreen movies to make them fullscreen (two presets for movies with 1.85:1 and 2.35:1 AR), as well as 4x and 9x digital zoom. They are located under the "Aspect Ratio" section of the right click menu. Zooming is the same as previous versions. PowerDVD does not have anything in comparison. #POWERDVD 17 REVIEW UPDATE#While you might expect there be nothing left in this arena to update after eight generations, WinDVD 9 did manage to add something innovative in this area by including All2HD, a HD upscaling feature. There is also an "Information" tab that will display information about your current system and technical information about the movie you are playing.ĭVD playback was largely faultless. Of course, there's an easy way to by-pass the region protection, and you can read our Blu-ray Region-Free Guide for more information. You can also specify your network speed, your country code and of course, the region settings with a limited change counter. Here, you can configure the Blu-ray playback settings such as where you would like persistent storage files to be located (these are things like bookmarks, downloads when PowerDVD is updated with BD-Live compatibility). If you have the Ultra edition of PowerDVD 8, you will have the "BDROM" tab. Let's go through the various setup sections: All the usual options you would expect are there. ![]() The configuration options should be familiar to users of PowerDVD. Because of the need to connect to an online service (MoovieLive), you do need to agree to a few more things and you might optionally want to sign up for an account online to access all the MoovieLive features. NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 128mb PCI-Express.Any features not found in the Standard or Deluxe versions of PowerDVD will be indicated.īelow is the specs for the test system used: Please take into account the fact that all ratings are for PowerDVD 8 Ultra. ![]() Reviewīelow is a review for the latest version of PowerDVD. For the latest review, please refer to this page. #POWERDVD 17 REVIEW FULL#Of 24: Full Review of PowerDVD 8.0 Note : This is an archived review for an older version of PowerDVD. ![]()
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