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Poll: Software DVD players

I'm using Power DVD 2.5 which came with my Prophet2Ultra card. It plays DVD's with no frame drop that i can see🙂



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another vote for PowerDVD 2.5, i have alsoused just about every other player out there too and most of them rank closely together but IMO, powerDVD pulls slightly ahead
 
PowerDVD 3.0 is a lot better than 2.5.

WinDVD does not have better image quality, at least compared to PowerDVD3. PDVD3's colors are richer. WinDVD downmixes 5.1 to 4.1 better than PowerDVD though.

Personally I use WinDVD 2000 2.3 since I have 4 channel speakers.


 
I bought powerdvd 3.0 and it does the job great. I really enjoy the dolby headphones feature- creates a truely realistic sound

picture quality is also excellent- leaps and bounds above pdvd 2.5 and windvd in my opinion
 
Kami,
I'm not convinced that PowerDVD is better than Cinemaster based DVD programs like the ATI DVD player that came with my ATI Rage Pro card. I don't know about WinDVD but I'd say that Cinemaster and PowerDVD are the two top ones.
 
>>&quot;WinDVD does not have better image quality, at least compared to PowerDVD3. PDVD3's colors are richer. &quot;<<

Is this with the default color settings? My version of WinDVD allows me to adjust color settings. My video card toolbox does as well.
 
windvd 2000 2.3 DOES have better image/sound quality then powerdvd 3.0. I have both, and while powerdvd does almost catch up, it doesn't quite make it. It still doesn't decode the lfe channel. The reviews at digital-digest.com back me up: )
 


<< I'm not convinced that PowerDVD is better than Cinemaster based DVD programs like the ATI DVD player that came with my ATI Rage Pro card. I don't know about WinDVD but I'd say that Cinemaster and PowerDVD are the two top ones. >>


The Cinemaster engine used to be the best...and I used to use the ATI player but the latest versions of PowerDVD and WinDVD are leaps and bounds ahead of cinemaster, IMO.
 
another vote for power dvd 2.5

Using it with my pioneer drive, and a 8mb POS video card. of course with a 1.16Ghz T-Bird. =)
 
Is there any other place to buy windvd multichannel 2.3 other than intervideo's website. 50 bucks for a software player is insane!!! I think that is why so many people just used hacked versions of windvd.
 
That's the only place I am aware of. I paid 50.00 for it and have no regrets. 🙂
 
Cinemaster has still got the best image quality, but nowhere near as many settings and configs as PowerDVD 3.0, so they´re both good in different ways
 
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