To me, the TrueTheater default settings looked clearer and brighter, if a bit over-sharpened. You can even see a side-by-side view of the video with and without TrueTheater. You can right click, choose Settings… and press the TrueTheater/Hardware decoding button to change how the video displays. To get PowerDVD's TrueTheater enhancements, which sharpen, colour correct, and smooth the motion of your video playback, you have to turn off hardware video acceleration in favour of software rendering. If your PC has a graphics processor that supports Nvidia Cuda or AMD APP technology, PowerDVD takes advantage of that to accelerate video decoding for smooth clear playback. An icon at the top, shaped like an old fashioned TV, puts you in Cinema mode, which is for watching movies across a room using a remote. The player handles DVD menus with no problem, as you'd expect. When you first start playing a DVD or Blu-ray in PowerDVD, you'll be asked to enter your region, since the movie industry has rules about what countries can watch which movies and when. Windows has been able to play DVDs by itself since Windows 7, but PowerDVD adds Blu-ray support (even Blu-ray 3D in the software's Ultra edition), and some nifty viewing improvements for DVDs, with its TrueTheater technology that adds enhancements like HD upscaling, and corrections for lighting and colours. You can customise this sidebar to just include the entries you want. You'll also find entries in the side panel for devices and the 7digital music store, online media from Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and home DLNA media. The startup interface shows a left side panel with all your potential sources of media, starting with the Media Library, which locates all your movies, videos, photos, and music. It detected my connected external Blu-ray drive, and an ad popped up at the bottom for another CyberLink product. Finally you're in the player software proper. But you're not done yet: Next the registration form appears, but you can skip this. Hitting Continue takes you to a product improvement program opt-in. When you first start up PowerDVD 13, you'll see its welcome screen, not only welcoming you to the software, but offering video tutorials and media library preferences. InterfaceĬyberLink has made a good job of the interface, which is clear and easy on the eyes, once you get everything set up. If you buy the boxed software, it comes with a pair of 3D red/blue (flimsy paper) glasses. The whole installation process took four minutes on my test Windows 8 laptop, a Lenovo G580 with 4GB of RAM and integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000. It also installs Visual C++ 2005 runtime software, which hardly seems the most up-to-date thing. Unfortunately, the installer tries to add superfluous software to your PC, which I find unbelievable for software you paid over seventy pounds for.
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