I'm not a fan personally, preferring to calibrate displays as possible for accuracy, but if that's something you like you can often just dive into the settings for your displays, graphics hardware, stand-alone players etc. basically filtering that changes the colors, not unlike the vivid mode you might see with PC monitors, Blu-Ray players, & HDTVs. I've never been a fan of Cyberlink's encoding &/or conversion apps, & question their capability to really challenge much more popular streaming alternatives.Ĭyberlink advertises PowerDVD's features to *enhance* your video. Cyberlink advertises that their new casting feature can convert video on the fly to better work with for example a Roku - I'm skeptical personally. You also get a license to their Android player, though in my experience it's kinda meh. PowerDVD's favored by a lot of people running HT PCs - PCs connected to their HDTVs where they store & play content - & version 16 expands on that with their new TV mode, TV mode remote for Android etc.

īeyond that are all the bells & whistles. It is one of very few players that will play 5.1-7.1 audio tracks in stereo, *evenly splitting the audio to both left & right* when using headphones - most favor one side or the other. It supports the DTS & AC3 HD audio on many current Blu-Ray discs, though I have experienced distortion playing DTSHD using some of their true theater modes.

Essentially it's a licensed Blu-Ray & DVD player that plays the DRM laden discs you buy the same as a stand-alone player connected to your TV, with all menus & features.

I've run PowerDVD since something like version 3 - currently I'm running PowerDVD 15 ultra.

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