VerdictĬharging £34.99/AU$54.95/US$54.95 for the PowerDVD 13 Deluxe version, £59.99/AU$89.95/US$79.95 for the PowerDVD 13 Pro option and £79.99/AU$109.95/US$99.95 for the PowerDVD Ultra iteration was always going to be a hard sell in a world of pre-installed Windows Media Player and free VLC Player.īut there are enough features to make PowerDVD 13 worth considering, especially if you have a high resolution display and a home network full of media streamers.
The ability to import and easily synchronise subtitles from third-party websites makes this a very versatile media playback tool for the multilingual among us.
It's no killer feature, but it's quite a nice way of displaying your media collection, especially if you're using a PC connected to a TV. Streaming media to and from devices across a home network has been tidied up and improved, and you can pull in cover art, plot synopses and more from CyberLink's service. The software supports a wide range of file formats, including AVCHD 2.0 and lossless APE audio, with CyberLink boasting that PowerDVD 13 is the only multimedia software to support MKV and DTS playback for Windows RT tablets, thanks to the PowerDVD Mobile app. Opening other files such as photos and music is also very swift. If you miss them, though, they can be easily turned back on.
The process of loading and playing a Blu-ray has been sped up considerably, mainly by disabling some of the interactive features such as BD-Live, which to be fair not many of us ever used. The TrueTheater effects can be easily tweaked with sliders, and there are handy options to split the video, or play it side-by-side so that you can compare before and after results.Īs in previous versions, CyberLink PowerDVD 13 can also upscale 2D video to 3D, and while the process has been improved since its debut, it's still no substitute for native 3D video, which CyberLink PowerDVD 13 handles without a problem.ĬyberLink's hand has been strengthened somewhat by Microsoft's decision not to include native Blu-ray playback in Windows 8, and to limit Media Player to only certain versions. With TrueTheater HD on its default settings the image was sharper, with subtle tweaks to the colour balance that made an already stunning high definition look even better.
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