Review by D. Brennan

I installed this software on a high-end 64bit machine with 8GB of ram, and Windows 7 Professional that I am using as my media machine. It installed with no problem on the first run through. I then ran it through a series of trials and it passed them all with flying colors. Here are the features that I have tried:nn1 - Playing standard audio files. Most of my files are mp3’s and I did not run in to any problem playing these files.

2 - Bluray - it plays bluray video discs very well. I have played 8 discs, all from Netflix, and have not had a problem with any of them crashing.

3 - On-the-fly 3d conversion: I tried this function with picture files, bluray discs and standard DVD’s. The software, along with the 3D glasses this software ships with, combined to give something that really looks 3D in most cases. There were occasional abnormalities but nothing worse than what I saw watching Thor is 3D at the IMAX theater.

4 - Remote control from my iPhone: This took a while to get working properly. I just wish that there was a way to specify an IP address or Netbios name from the remote control, but I eventually got past that issues.

I have not tried the social media functionality and really have no intention to. I also get annoyed at the little advertising pop-ups but have learned to turn them out. I have not tried playing the full range of file types yet but will write more as I experiment. Unfortunately the new machine this software was installed on has a bad hard drive controller and is being repaired.