Review by M Cox

I have read nearly all of the negative reviews and I cannot understand why these people are having so much trouble. My experience is the complete opposite. I have a late model HP 17 inch laptop computer with a 64 bit Intel chip, an eMachines computer with a ³²⁄₆₄ bit AMD processor and a home built Intel i7 64 bit system with a Gigabyte Extreme motherboard. I have Windows 7 running on all my computers all 64 bit except for the eMachines computer. I have never encountered even one problem installing or using PowerDVD 10 or 11. Now I do maintain my computer and regularly do registry cleans and run the disk cleaner application. But everybody should be doing that routinely anyway. I even have Intel solid state disks on my laptop computer and my Intel i7 computer. All I can say is I’ve never encountered any problem whatsoever. I’ve even used it with yet another AMD Vista 64 bit computer in China. Never had a problem. And I do test and try out all the various options, too. I use the HDMI output on my XFX video card as an input to my 65 inch Panasonic HDTV. Works great. The claim that they can change the resolution to HD is sort of a marketing joke. Garbage in, ever so slightly better garbage out. If your video was shot in the 1980’s, nothing is going to make them look like it was shot in HD. It just doesn’t work that way. This is marketing hype, technically accurate statement, but still chiefly hype.

My main complaint is that Cyberlink creates a new version out of trivial improvements, such as from Version 10 to 11. There just isn’t that much of an incremental change to warrant two different versions. And the upgrade price is just way too expensive, especially considering how little difference there is. We will be at version 99 soon at this pace. They should give the updates away free like Microsoft does. And this is much more of an update and tweak than a version change. In my opinion Cyberlink is price gouging just because they can. They have the only truly functional Blu-ray DVD player. If there were credible competition, the price would drop like a rock. There is competition, but they aren’t exactly cheap either. Cyberlink should offer a family plan where you can use the software on multiple home computers. I have four legal copies and it is just not right to pay for each one when I am only using one computer at a time. Instead, I have to pay for each computer. This should be licensed to individuals as a home license, not per machine per person. So my complaints are all about their marketing plan. I believe the product quality itself is top notch.