Review by Confederate

The Cyberlink PowerDVD program is notoriously buggy. See the photo? That’s as far as I get when inserting a DVD or Blu-Ray disk. It freezes and stays like that until you remove it from memory, then does it again with a new disk. Buy Version 15 and they want you to upgrade to 16 (for $45). If you have 16, they want you to upgrade to 17 (another $46). They keep you throwing good money after bad that it really adds up. Mine has the latest patch and it didn’t change a thing. It still crashes and is unstable. I couldn’t get Cyberlink to help (they offer help subscription service for a hefty annual sum). Bottom line: They don’t support their product. You can get the VLC Video Player off the Internet for FREE. Some of the software bundled with this player is loaded with adware. Very expensive and it doesn’t do much except brighten the image and sharpen it a bit. I’d give it three and a half stars if it worked. But now I wouldn’t give it a single star because it crashes and won’t work.