Overall, PowerDVD18 is streets ahead of any free media player out there and is a must-have for those who demand the best quality from their media getting a thumbs-up from. Of course, if you’re on the subscription plan, the new edition will upgrade automatically.

While improvement over last year’s edition are welcome, there’s nothing here that should have you running out to purchase 2018’s new software. Evolution, not revolutionĬompared to the 2017 version, however, there’s not really much making the hum for. Watch YouTube Live with always on mini view. Support for Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, and Roku.Better VR experience: Supports Microsoft Mixed Reality headsets, HTC, VIVE, and Oculus Rift.Playback 4K HDR and 360 videos on YouTube and Vimeo.Watch YouTube Live with always on mini view.Watch 2.35:1 movies on 21:9 monitors in full screen mode.Supports Ultra HD Blu-ray, 4K, HEVC/H.265 and HDR10 content.As you would expect, it can handle media from just about any source, either local or online.Īs publisher Cyberlink states, ‘for video, audio, photos, VR 360° content and even YouTube or Vimeo, PowerDVD18 is your essential entertainment companion’. In essence, PowerDVD is the sort of premium media player that just a few years ago would have had people paying several hundred dollars for. This year’s CyberLink PowerDVD is here, and as you would expect it’s still a fantastic solution for anyone wanting to play media at its highest quality. PowerDVD 9 - STUNNING upscale.Optimized for 4K DHR PowerDVD18 plays much more than just DVDs and Blu-rays. Total Media 3.5 - DREADFUL HD upscale 3.5/10

PowerDVD 8 - very average, fuzzy and soft. These are 576i PAL based DVD which is worth a mention. The results for HD upscale of DVD were in my conderation given figure out ten for clarity, authentic HD look and feel, Sharpness without inducting too much artifact and using a muitple collection of DVD recent releases. Now were PowerDVD 8, WinDVD 8, Total Media 3.5 and PowerDVD 9 Well I tested the DVD upscaling of both to a 120' screen size via the 1080p projector. Both have inbuilt upscale technologies and are true HD MPEG decoders (Blu Ray) PowerDVD 9 decoder performs better then Total Media 3.5 and slightly better then WinDVD 8īefore I had a projector with 1920 * 1080p panel I would dispute the differences between Total Media 3.5 and PowerDVD 9. There has been a lot said about certain players and there decoder quality.

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