PowerDVD 15 Ultra from CyberLink is fantastic media player that can be play all kind of file types, including Blu-ray 3D, MP4, DVD, UltraHD 4K and HEVC (H.265) videos.
PowerDVD 15 Ultra can act as central player for all of your content. You can play all media from your PC, Home Network, connected devices and cloud stored media.
KEY FEATURES INCLUDED:
- Better-than-original Quality: With PowerDVD 15 Ultra, you can enhance your media with True Theater technology.
- CyberLink Cloud: You can explore new ways to sync, store & share media with a new cloud storage service.
- Complete DLNA Solution: PowerDVD 15 Ultra allows you to playback media content across PC, Tablet, Smartphone & TV.
- Instant Play: With Instant play you get a faster start-up for Blu-ray movies.
- HD audio for your HD movies: The application allows crystal clear 7.1 channel DTS-HD, Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus formats.
- Remote Mobile Apps: PowerDVD 15 Ultra includes Power Media Player and PowerDVD Remote mobile apps.
Playback quality:
PowerDVD 15 renders movies better than anything else available, and does so without the fuss other players require on the user’s part, such as loading shaders (FX), tweaking contrast and saturation, and so on. The effect on older movies and animated movies is startling—and to be honest—addictive. There’s even after-the-fact video stabilization for home movies.
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PowerDVD made even this high bit-rate, 1080 copy of The Incredibles look sharper and more vivid.
The biggest add for version 15 of PowerDVD is some very tasteful color enhancement, called, of course, TrueTheater Color. It’s like turning up the saturation control in other players, but it’s smarter in that it leaves skin tones alone, so there’s no spray-tan effect. Vivid but not cartoonish.
The Cyberlink folks have finally made PowerDVD nearly the equal of Microsoft's Windows Media Player and Apple's QuickTime player for augmenting music playback. Though the effects are a bit hard to find (Setting/Player Settings/More Audio), you can now apply Dolby Virtual Speaker and TrueTheater Surround to your tunes. Alas, they only work on a subset of the file types that PowerDVD supports. Sadly, that list doesn’t include FLAC, my go-to codec for all things classical.
Performance:
PowerDVD has never actually stayed on my system for long after a review. Not because of its now shrinking list of peccadilloes, but because it has never been particularly stable and tended to hog system resources. That finally seems to be a thing of the past.
PowerDVD is a now a much more tightly coded program player that uses hardware assist whenever possible. CPU utilization with any reasonably modern processor is quite low, even for 4K videos, so your system will remain responsive during movie playback. It’s not quite as efficient as MPC-HC and its LAV filters, but close enough, especially in light of all the TrueTheater optimization it’s performing.
The playback coup de grace is support for Windows Audio Session Application Program Interface (WASAPI), the high-performance, hardware-direct audio portion of the Windows multimedia libraries available from Vista on. At least it should be. When I engaged the “exclusive” mode of WASAPI which should result in perfect performance, the music skipped occasionally. Go figure.
Online:
PowerDVD 15 Ultra interfaces with both YouTube and Vimeo, so you can browse and play videos from those services without firing up a browser. You can also save videos for offline viewing (pinning), and if what you’re looking for is actually just the music, PowerDVD will extract the audio track as an MP3 for offline listening as well. This is of dubious legality, but the whole YouTube thing is iffy to begin with. Caveats aside, both those features are super handy. Especially as you can find lots of stuff on YouTube that can’t be found elsewhere.
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PowerDVD does a great job searching and downloading video, as well as ripping audio tracks from YouTube. But my test version bogged down when other programs were downloading from the Internet at the same time.
The only problem I found with the online browsing was that PowerDVD didn’t like competing for bandwidth. If I was downloading via any other program, the YouTube browser spun its wheels and eventually said nothing was found. Kill the other downloads, and it was happy as a clam.
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