Cyber. Link Power. DVD 1. 2 Ultra Review: An All- Purpose Media Player. Cyber. Link’s Power.
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DVD has long been a powerful media player. The $1. 00 (as of March 8, 2. Power. DVD 1. 2 Ultra continues the tradition, establishing itself as the Blu- ray/DVD/music/video player to beat. It makes movies look great and audio sound wonderful, and it's entirely tweakable.
Even better, the easy- to- use program plays a ton of file types, including 3. D video and photos. Version 1. 2 takes Power. DVD further toward being a truly universal media player and organizer- -but it has also developed into a large and resource- hungry application. The core reason for buying Power.
DVD is its Blu- ray movie playback. In that regard, version 1. True. Theater 3. D, which turns 2. D movies into 3. D (sort of). Previously you could use this feature on DVD movies; now, you can apply it to Blu- ray playback as well.
Power. DVD's other new features all pertain to organization, streaming media, mobile devices, and social media. The revised interface is logical, with a left- side navigating pane that lets you easily switch between functions as well as navigate the music, photo, and video libraries. A large pane to the right displays the actual data. Functionally the interface is much like i. Car Games Drag Racer V3 Download Mac more. Tunes, but it's styled in dark gray and black tones- -not particularly warm and friendly. Also, navigating the program's media library and moving between areas was somewhat slow in the version I tested (1.
The software can now function as a DLNA server as well as a client. You can use it to stream the multimedia content on your PC across a network to other devices, as well as play content from other servers. Cyber. Link has produced new two- way media streaming/syncing apps (version 4) for both the IOS and Android platforms. The apps are free for Power. DVD Ultra users, but cost $5 for users of the less- expensive Power. DVD Professional and Standard. The company also offers a free app to turn your mobile device into a remote control for Power.
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DVD, a handy feature that worked remarkably well on my i. Pod Touch. In addition, Power. DVD 1. 2 integrates browsing and playing You. Tube videos, freeing you from having to open a browser to do so.
Facebook and Flickr are baked in, too, but although I was able to upload photos, Power. DVD didn't seem to recognize any of the nearly 1. I already have on Facebook. Cyber. Link's Moovie. Live cinema database and community site as well.
I did find one minor bug in the music player: It listed an Apple lossless file by the wrong name, and then would not play it (apparently lossless . M4. A files are not supported). On the other hand, applying the True. Theater audio effects breathes new life into old tunes. If the software only had something along the lines of Windows Media Player's SRS Tru. Bass to give them more kick, I might switch to Power.
DVD as my main music application. Other useful new features include support for lossless pass- through of Dolby True. HD (7. 1), DTS- HD Master Audio (7. Ogg, and Flac formats. The downside of all the new technology Cyber. Link has added to Power.
DVD is that it requires a lot of resources. After installation, I counted nine separate Power. DVD- related programs running (most in the background), consuming close to 5. MB of memory. Unfortunately, the software doesn't seem to provide a way to turn off features that you might not need, such as DLNA serving, to free up system resources. Actual playback performance was top- notch. A true all- in- one media application is something that many users would appreciate and possibly spend $1. In its twelfth incarnation, Power.
DVD comes close, and if another iteration were to add TV support- -and scale back its hunger for memory and CPU cycles- -that package might just fill the bill. For now, buy Power. DVD for Blu- ray playback, which it does very well. You might opt for the $8.
Professional version that handles Blu- ray but omits some of the streaming features and support for the 7. The $5. 0 Standard version is a good player, but lacks Blu- ray support, which makes it hardly more useful than the free Windows Media Player or VLC.- -Jon L. Jacobi. To comment on this article and other PCWorld content, visit our Facebook page or our Twitter feed.
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