Is powerDVD worth £53 and can i install it on two PC systems

[chaparral]

Looks like you only get a single Activation limit on this software..
So if you do a reinstall then you have to wait a week or more to get the key activation limit reset...


This guy been waiting for over 3 weeks
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/20265.page

 

[bledd]

I reckon..

Either buy anydvdhd coupled with mpc-be (free)

Or

Buy a ps3, they are great blu ray players, always updated too.

 

[Lum]

PowerDVD is slow buggy and generally awful.

If you must purchase a legit BluRay player package, go with Arcsoft, it's the least bad option.

 

[chaparral]

Or

Buy a ps3, they are great blu ray players, always updated too.

I already have a PS3 which I use for watching blu-rays...


But I want to rip my Blu-rays discs and store them on my HTPC....

 

[Simian]

I use anydvdhd (lifetime licence) and mpc-hc,

I did this when the AnyDVDHD licence was for 'Life' but I don't think it is now!!

Plus I have the Licence inscalled on both my Win7 and Win8 installs on my PC, I checked with Slysoft and they were okay with this!!, Not sure about 2 seperate PC's though!!

Anyhew, This gets over the BR encryprion problem, and MPC-HC or VLC then play any disk you care to throw at them!!

 

[chaparral]

I did this when the AnyDVDHD licence was for 'Life' but I don't think it is now!!

Yes they still do a lifetime update option ..

http://www.slysoft.com/en/purchase.html

 

[shawsy109]

I just made the mistake of buying Standard thinking it would do for Blue rays, popped in Avengers into the blue ray drive click start and get the upgrade to ultra pop up. Totally my mistake but gutted, spent £33 on standard when it would have cost £48 for ultra, now to upgrade it will cost another £38, not gonna happen.

 

[Simian]

Yes they still do a lifetime update option ..

http://www.slysoft.com/en/purchase.html

Okely Dokely... They did say at one point (about a week after I bought mine) that they were stopping Lifetime updates for new customers!!

Plus mine only cost €80

 

[chaparral]

AnyDVD HD question


What it mean by this ??

Features Blu-Ray

Makes Blu-ray media playable with every player software

http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

theres a hack so it can play encrypted blurays

Yup I've done this with mine, using my microserver with a BR drive.
playback is terrible tho

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

Just to say, I've been using Power DVD (insert appropriate superlative here) 8 since release and it's always worked for me. The only bloaty bit was the moovie thing that I never bothered to install in the first place. I did have problems with it upon moving to Windows 8 but got in contact with support and, after a bit of troubleshooting, they provided me with a free upgrade to 11.

I realise not everyone has had a great experience with the software but mine has been great.

 

[Nutella33]

Rip it with make MKv and use Xbmc to run it?

this. there is free software that can do the ripping as well. why on earth you would pay 50 quid for simple playback options is beyond me.

 

[Lum]

wrong thread, oops

 

[chaparral]

Snip

Useful...

 

[Lum]

Wrong thread, meant to be random image thread.

 

[Simian]

AnyDVD HD question


What it mean by this ??

http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html

Means you can use just about any Playback software to play a Blu-Ray disc, Like MPC-HC or VLC etc...

 

[trentlad]

AnyDVD HD simply unlocks the disc so the DRM doesn't affect how you choose to use your BlueRay disc.

 

[trentlad]

Do you still have to install codecs with MPC derivatives?

 

[Lum]

mpc-hc comes with it's own internal codecs for pretty much everything unless you get the lite version.

 

[trentlad]

Thanks Lum!