Corel WinDVD 9 Plus (Blu-ray)

List Price: $99.99 Discount Price: $54.75

Features:

• Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD playback (Blu-ray drive or HD DVD drive required)--Play high-definition commercial titles with interactive features, or recordable Blu-ray/HD DVD media
• Supports all Blu-ray and HD DVD video encoding formats, such as MPEG-4-AVC (H.264), MPEG-2, and VC1
• Supports HD Audio technologies from Dolby and DTS including Dolby Digital Plus, uncompressed Dolby TrueHD, and DTS HD for commercial Blu-ray and HD DVD movies
• Plays video from recordable HD DVD or Blu-ray media such as HD DVD-R, BD-R and RE discs; play standard DVDs at HD resolution with unique upscaling and motion enhancement
• Includes all the features and capabilites of the WinDVD 9 Plus

Customer Reviews:

Nothing Special [Posted on 2008-09-18]
With this product you receive exactly what is advertised. The program plays DVDs and BLU-RAYs flawlessly. It does have the ability to do screen-captures is nice as well if you are a film student or you just want some Jpegs of certain frames.

I can't really say anything overtly positive or negative about the program though. It didn't have any major bugs but it doesn't have anything to set it apart from the dozens of other similar programs on the market.

Hardware dependent [Posted on 2008-09-18]
For those of us who have a laptop that's a year old, we're screwed. That's the short version of the review for this not yet ready for primetime software package.

Oh yeahm, there isn't an upgrade to a Blu-Ray or HD DVD for my laptop, so I either have to buy a new laptop or use an external drive, which aren't available, so that means buying an internal, and popping it into an external case... ok I'm a high tech priestess so that isn't hard but why would I want to?

So, I have a choice, I can watch my blu ray discs on my PS3 on the monster flat panel in the livingroom, or I can buy an internal blu ray PLAYER (they don't burn yet) and watch a movie (after I upgrade my graphics card) on a 24" computer monitor on my desktop machine...

Bottom line is that the software I think has come out too soon, before there is ample hardware to support it, and you can't write blu ray yet, so we're just talking about playing them...

Better to spend the money on PS3, hook up the ethernet cable and watch over your network if you just have to watch it on your computer (I'm still asking myself WHY?).

Great show! [Posted on 2008-09-19]
Added this to my HP with Vista and it makes my DVDs come alive. Even though I have a standard dvd drive in my box, I still found the dvd to have more punch to it over windvd 8 that came preinstalled on my pc.

Nice upconvert for DVDs [Posted on 2008-09-25]
Although I don't have a Blu-Ray player yet, I've found that this does do a nice job of displaying DVDs. The bulb on our DLP tv recently burned out, and we had to wait a week for a replacement. Our son needed to watch his cartoons, and was happy watching them on the computer this way.

WinDVD9 is a definite Plus  [Posted on 2008-09-26]
This is an excellent software for PC playback of DVD's, HD DVD's and Blu-ray discs. It automatically detects the disc type and plays back flawlessly.It even works well on an iMac computer running Windows XP. The only drawback is that it does not play individual files as it should be able to do when the file or folder playback is selected as the source in the pop-up menu.I think it is an improvement over the previous version of WinDVD8 Platinum which could play back either HD DVD's or Blu-ray, but not both since one had to select which type of HD disc during installation. The new version also installs quicker and is ready to run almost instantly after installation.

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