CyberLink PowerDVD 22 Ultra | Award-Winning Blu-ray, DVD, & Media Player Software | Play Virtually Any File Format [Retail Box with Download Card]

I find this entire product odious. What they are selling: the world What you are buying: an opportunity to buy the world, maybe. In the end, you are getting an interface for your pre-existing DVD player. That you can have forever. What is also eternal is the opportunity to upgrade it as the barrage of pop ups and emails you get will advise you. The feature -- the cloud storage, the enhanced visuals, the 8K are yours for a trial period. But dont worry, you will be hocked to death with opportunities to purchase them. There is nothing here in the basic kit that you dont already have if you have a DVD player. This will NOT upgrade your existing hardware to 4K (which they suggest on the page -- I was gullible). This will, with the proper buy-in, allegedly up your capabilities to stream 4K (which might be more dependent on what you are streaming to than what you are streaming with, although I dont know). Ill take it on faith. I wont use the free samples, because I totally resent the upsell. I feel exactly about this as I do about time-share sales. For just a little more you can get a little more. In the end, you get a weekend a year in a shared apartment. Not for me. I will probably uninstall and be smarter next time. If it aint on the page -- theres a reason. The page offers no system requirements and when you get the box, you get the list. And the shaft. Ultimately, every time I tried to play from my videos, the computer froze, and once even gave me a blue screen of death. When it relaunched, I used my Windows media player which worked JUST FINE. This is a horrible horrible program which I have now uninstalled. JUST SAY NO.

I just received this so far it’s great I’m new at this so it will take me awhile to forgive it all out

I resisted having to buy a program but Im so glad I did. This program does so much more than just watch Blu-ray DVDs. Manage home videos, photos, play regular DVDs, use to play on your television or PC. It was easy to set up and works very well. It may seem pricey but its well worth it, especially the more you use it, the cheaper it becomes per use!

I think Cyberlink should discount their products as being add supported. After all, you get adds in the program all the time trying to sell more software. Another annoyance is the need to create a Cyberlink account to download software updates - which you need to do right out of the box. And any time the product needs updating, you have to wade through tons of adds to find the right link for the download vs an upgrade. If you make it through all of the annoyances, this player does play a variety of video files with an interface that is well thought out and easy to use. And yes, it does play Blu-ray discs. But there are free open ware players out there that play most any file. While they are not as user friendly to use without digging into settings, they are free. There may be some specific uses for this player that, for some select few, justify the price. Or perhaps if you really enjoy watching physical disc movies on your PC, this might be what you want.

The software works well and so far has played all of my Blu-ray discs thus far. This is an issue with Windows machines. However getting a working copy on both my desktop and laptop has not been without issues. I bought this software here and a copy on-line since I want it on two computers. That may sound odd, but I did not intend to order the software here but it got mixed into a larger order. The on-line copy installed and I was able to validate it and it performs as I noted above. The boxed copy however does not work. The Product key provided is coming up invalid invalid. Waiting for Cyberlink to fix the error. You wont be disappointed with the software, but go to Cyberlinks site you will be much happier.

I think its too expensive, but it works quite well.

Ive always used Cyberlink whenever I had a trial version pop up on my computers and always loved it, but could never afford the full program and was sad when my trial period ended. This is great video software, everything Ive watched so far has been crystal clear, the colors vibrant and overall, my viewing experience has improved a lot. Software was easy to install, I had it up and running in about a half an hour, I believe it would have been much faster had I not been answering emails and doing other things on my laptop at the same time. Im very happy with Cyberlink. Overall, a great experience, from install to viewing.