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

Installed and worked perfectly on my PC NAS arcade..... Problem is the machine completely died power surge blow the mother board, GPU and M.2. So I cant use on another machine, purchased another hope this works out better.

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.

Ive been using PowerDVD, in various versions, since v3, waaay back in the 90s. Were now up to v22, and things have changed over the years. The early versions were just software to play DVD movies on your computer. Todays versions are full-featured media centers, with vast arrays of internet-based features, streaming support, links to reviewing sites where you can link, share, read and write your own reviews and articles. Its capable of playing ALMOST every form of media out there, these days. I was very disappointed to learn that they REMOVED the 3D Blu Ray support code from the package, however. I have a 3D capable monitor and a large collection of 3D movies, and have been able to watch them consistently on my main workstation for a long time now. They give some lame excuse for why they removed this ALREADY EXISTING CODE from their package, but it really doesnt hold water, as far as Im concerned. Suffice it to say, v19 is the final version supporting 3D video playback, with it discontinued with v20, absent in v21, and now also absent in the newly released v22. So, if you want to play back 3D video, youll need to ignore this and go find an old copy of v19 or earlier (which you cant get from Cyberlink anymore, as dumb of a move as that seems to be!) I could understand not selling physical packages of the older version, but removing the digital version from sale for those who might want that feature? Thats just... weird. Its not like theres any real overhead that goes into allowing it to still be purchased digitally, is there? Thats a big knock a star off point as far as Im concerned. Apart from that, though, this is a good, user-friendly package that does pretty much whatever youd want it to do, and is pretty intuitive to use. Audio playback and video quality are, of course, dependent as much on your playback hardware as anything else... if you have a home-theater-PC setup, outputting best-quality audio over HDMI or DisplayPort to a compatible amplifier, and outputting that to a surround-sound speaker system and high-end video monitor panel, youll see about the best you can get from this. If youre playing it on your laptop display, using the built-in laptop speakers, well... youll no doubt be wondering what all the fuss is about. I use this as my main watching movies on my computer package. I AM keeping my older v19 version installed as well, however, explicitly so I can still watch 3D movies. The added features this brings to the table are not enough of a benefit, as far as Im concerned, to justify the removal of a feature I use. In fact, had I known that theyd removed this, I would not have chose to pick this up in the first place, I suspect, just out of frustration. That said... my v19 will continue to live on my main workstation (with 5.1 surround sound) in my office, and this will go on alongside the v17 version I have on my home theater PC (which is not 3D-capable at present, as my 3D TV has gone kaput and needs power supply repair). The frills and extras they provide? Especially the built-in movie social networking stuff, or the ability to use it to handle my local or local-network media? Those, I personally dont need... I use Plex to do local-network playback, and other software to handle on-machine media playback. However, if you dont have other software which does these things... say, you have Win11 and want to use something besides the soon-to-be-permanently-retired Windows Media Player (Windows Media Center was removed long ago, but WMP remains, for now)... this is a really good option. Note, also, that Win11 does not have the correct drivers to allow movies to be played back from a Blu-ray disk, but if you install this player, it will provide all the drivers and other support infrastructure you need to watch those movies on that PC. So, for those who are starting from zero, this is an excellent all in one package. Cyberlinks player software is the market leader for a reason, outlasting most of its competitors, and with the imminent demise of WMP, I can strongly suggest picking this up as a replacement/alternative.

I have mixed feelings about this product, has a lot of features and probably so many that you want to use all of them but in my experience the teachers do work very well for what they do. I do use this as my primary media player and it does seem like it has increased the quality and resolution that I see in my movies and pictures so I’m happy with that. I feel that it could be a little easier as far as understanding the functionality but there are a ton of training videos at your disposal. I am using this on a medium a gaming PC with a 3060 TI video card so I should mention that as well. I do like that it comes with cloud functionality included one year which is pretty nice. overall I feel like this is a great video software that can replace a lot of the features that windows offers if you’re comfortable with the price.

I was hoping this would replace my native Windows Media player, but it did not. The software becomes unresponsive on a light gaming PC (2022 standards - AMD Ryzen 3750, 8GB RAM, Windows 11.) I am very surprised at the lack of testing here. It has a barebones video trimmer as well. The one feature that turns into a salvageable product is the YouTube feature. You can watch YouTube videos without ads, thus making this a free YouTube Premium account somewhat. I am actually surprised that this is allowed, but since it will save me a few bucks a month, that will be the only useful feature for me in this bundle.

Ive used a couple CyberLink PowerDVD in the past and its always been easy to use. The installation was pretty painless and it completed without any issues. Plays all my media and in good quality too. Works fine on my gaming laptop. Highly recommended!

Needs work

I have used Powerdvd for many years…recently purchased a new computer and had in to install. I even use this to stream movies from my computer to my TV through the HDMI connection on the computer and it is still a great quality. I have found very few formats that won’t play if you just add appropriate components. Highly recommend.

The CyberLink Power DVD software was easy to install on my laptop. Nothing hung up during install, and the program seems quite responsive. However, I find that the software doesnt do anything to improve the ease or performance of playing BluRay or 4K DVDs, watching TV online, or streaming 4K YouTube to my 4K TV that I couldnt already do with the original DVD player and the software that came with the computer, including organizing the digitized collection.