Soldato
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PowerDVD 10 Ultra Mark II - Build 2113
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Excuse me if this is slightly besides the point, but why is PowerDVD so expensive? I have a Blu-Ray drive that came with PDVD7 OEM and it's just no good for Blu rays as they never stay in sync. I know it's a software issue as the PDVD 9 and 10 trials work just fine. Why should I pay another large amount of cash to get it to work properly? I may as well just have bought a standalone player, it'd cost half as much.
Samsung Blue Ray Drive now needs software?
I purchased the Ultima Viper in May and its fine.
I asked Overclockers to install a Samsung Blue Ray Drive with it which they did. It doesn't do anything as I have found out that I need a particular kind of software to play DVD films with it.
Does anyone know what the name of the software is that I will need please? I have a hearing problem and the phones at Overclockers seem rather faint to me.
Many thanks.
I purchased the Ultima Viper in May and its fine.
I asked Overclockers to install a Samsung Blue Ray Drive with it which they did. It doesn't do anything as I have found out that I need a particular kind of software to play DVD films with it.
Does anyone know what the name of the software is that I will need please? I have a hearing problem and the phones at Overclockers seem rather faint to me.
Many thanks.
I've got a similar gripe, as I bought a retail Samsung Blu-Ray drive with PowerDVD 8 and it blue-screened my PC! Turns out that version of PowerDVD doesn't like GTX460 graphic cards on some PCs. I'm not the only person who has had this problem. Why should I have to fork out for a newer version of the program to get blu-ray playback working, when the whole point of getting a retail drive is to get working blu-ray software too!
It wouldn't be a problem if it were cheap to upgrade, but the prices are now almost as expensive as buying a hardware player.
Luckily when I built my new PC using the same graphics card and blu-ray drive the software actually works. For now at least.
Ravenger
Are you now using PowerDVD 10 to enable your Samsung to operate? I only purchased the Samsung Blue Ray drive because its more convenient to play blueray discs on my computer but Overclockers could have been a bit more helpful when they found that I'd ordered the Samsung drive. They just left me to find out that I'd need to shell out on something else. Or did they assume that I knew about it all along?
Are you now using PowerDVD 10 to enable your Samsung to operate? I only purchased the Samsung Blue Ray drive because its more convenient to play blueray discs on my computer but Overclockers could have been a bit more helpful when they found that I'd ordered the Samsung drive. They just left me to find out that I'd need to shell out on something else. Or did they assume that I knew about it all along?
Ravenger, if you email cyberlink they emailed me a copy of PowerDVD 9 OEM
Oooh. I'll try that, thanks!
I'm actually running the OEM PowerDVD 8 on my new machine now - even though I'm using the same graphics card and blue-ray drive, the software works fine on my i5 system, but bluescreens on my Q6600. I'm going to email Cyberlink though to see if I can get V9.
It certainly is expensive, i bought power dvd 9 ultra, cost something in the region of £80.00, though £6.00 of this accounted for a disc copy as well. Never had any issues with it though, by the time i added the cost of my bu ray drive, (£50.00 on members market), my standalone sony player was a few quid cheaper.
I suppose part of the problem is the cost of the blu-ray licence. Remember that DVD encryption got cracked because hackers found the master keys in a PC DVD player program. I imagine that the blu-ray partnership wants to restrict blu-ray licenses to more secure companies, so probably charges a lot to ensure that only large companies can afford it, which drives up the cost of the software.
It's maddening really because for £40 I'd probably buy the latest program, but for £80 I won't. It's the same with Windows 7 licenses. I paid £45 on special offer for Windows 7, but I wouldn't pay the current going rate of £100.
It's maddening really because for £40 I'd probably buy the latest program, but for £80 I won't. It's the same with Windows 7 licenses. I paid £45 on special offer for Windows 7, but I wouldn't pay the current going rate of £100.
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Indeed. Its muppets like this that price themselves out of a market, then justify their high prices due to reduced sales. If they did bring the cost down, and/or had better support options more people would purchase their software because the alternative is difficult, or illegal.
And lets not forget Sony's roll in this. HD DVD was the open, connectable format, Blu(e) Ray is the put your hands together and stroke a cat while laughing at all the idiot consumers format.
There was something recently about somebody claiming to have unlocked the blu(e) ray master code conundrum, no idea if anything came of it.
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Yeah, there's almost a monopoly, that's why it's so pricey. They'll claim the license cost is an influence too, but I'm not sure. If I can avoid it, I will, but I need something that integrates nicely into my media center, I wish MS had just built in Blu-Ray playback into Windows 7, but I suppose that was not possible for some reason (like money or Sony or a combination perhaps).