Review by Bass Cadet

As a user of Cyberlink’s PowerDirector software, I was interested to try out this software. I first loaded it on my main editing desktop. It installed easily but I opted out of defaulting to it for most of my media files, and just selected video. A few test videos looked better (more vibrant) than using the default video player and it played videos over the network well.

So I decided to try the other media players. The audio player is fine; I really like the ten band graphic equalizer feature. It allows decent customization and ten or so presets. The photo viewer also works well. It easily handled the usual file formats as well as several RAW format (DNG, PEF, and RW2) files.

Since it performed so well on my desktop, I decided to load it and use it as the default media player on a new laptop. This laptop does not have an optical drive so I installed it from a digital copy. I thought it would take forever and a day to download and install, but it was quite fast and easy. Finally, I connected an external Blu-ray drive and watched a video. It played without any problems. This is good software.