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Whistle Stopper - WinDVD 9 Plus
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List Price: $69.99
Our Price: $69.99
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Manufacturer: Corel
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Corel
EAN: 0735163119053
Feature: Experience standard DVDs at amazing HD resolution with the unique All2HD upscaling – convert standard DVDs to crisp high-definition video with outstanding color and clarity
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Corel
Manufacturer: Corel
Model: WD9PLENPC
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Corel
Release Date: 2008-03-17
Studio: Corel
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Features
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Experience standard DVDs at amazing HD resolution with the unique All2HD upscaling – convert standard DVDs to crisp high-definition video with outstanding color and clarity
Best of the audio world - supports leading audio technologies for an immersive listening experience including Dolby Pro Logic IIx, Dolby Digital EX and DTS surround audio
AVCHD - Supports playback of video from AVCHD camcorders, either copied from the camcorder hard drive, on AVCHD disc, or memory card
Complete Format support - reliable playback of High-Definition or standard definition video recorded from HDTV, camcorder, or downloaded from the Web including DVD-Video, DivX, RealPlayer, QuickTime, Windows Media, AVI, H.264 plus HDTV.
Sophisticated new graphite interface blends seamlessly with your Windows XP or Vista desktop
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: I had to give a rating so it get's 1 star
Comment: IT appears that Corel has messed up the WinDVD product.
My problems:
1) Trial version will not work on Windows XP x64, PowerDVD trial does.
2) Tech support responses are the standard dribble you can query online.
Even if youmention you tried the online help, you still get the same
response from tech support.
3) No Blu-Ray trial available from Corel WinDVD. I need it for seeing how
well blu0ray plays. I would have to assume the blu-ray plays correctly.
Not much of a problem since the trial will not work.
PowerDVD does have a Blu-Ray trial available
4) Unable to download a new trial. Repeatedly tells me my trial period
has ended. Removed everything per their help/tech support and still
unable to trya new trial. So I am unable to see if they have a newer
version that works under windows XP x64
Personally I should not have to be looking at getting a newer version, but the powerDVD one that came with the blu-ray player only does 2 channell audio. This is done on purpose and extremely annoying as they want nearly $70.00 for an upgrade and all I am getting is 5.1 surround which has been around for MANY years. This should come as a default part of version that comes with your Blu-Ray Drive.
Another user said it, they are overcharging for the Blu-Ray option and high def oriented software. With only 2 vendors in PowerDVD and WinDVD your choices are too few. PowerDVD's sound options are limited even under the full version, not impressed with either product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: One Main Reason to Buy This: Time Stretch
Comment: Upconverting to HD type quality is a great feature, however, there is one main reason to buy WinDVD, and it's a good one:
Time Stretch
For several editions now, WinDVD has had a feature called Time Stretch. Essentially, this allows you to watch a movie faster than its original time. For example, a 2 hour movie in only 1.5 hours. You could even watch a movie TWICE as FAST as it normally would be (2 hours becomes only 1) but then everyone sounds like chipmunks, and the action is very fast. This allows you to watch more movies in less amount of time. When time is short, this can be very helpful.
That being said, this version of WinDVD doesn't seem to have keyboard shortcuts to speed up the time, forcing you to use your mouse to speed it up. Previous version(s), 4 in particular, allowed you to press a key on the keyboard to speed things up or down.
Great program that would be made better if this keyboard shortcut was re-implemented.
Walt D in LV
P.S. If I have somehow missed this keyboard shortcut, please let me know my error. I really love the TimeStretch feature.
Customer Rating:
Summary: COMMERCIAL VERSUS FREEWARE DVD PLAYER
Comment: The two commercial survivors WinDvd and PowerDvd have parlayed all the free distributions into a large market share and their costs have become astronomical and their software so complex it locks up... Might I suggest a freeware HIGH DEFINITION alternative, the VLC DVDPlayer as well as another no cost player the AVS DVD player... The VLC DVDPlayer can play MKV extensions and a ton of other formats. To test it, I watched a Spiderman I HD disc rip (.mkv) on my computer and it was beautiful....You don't always have to pay for hyped inferior software
Customer Rating:
Summary: Crashes when All2HD enabled
Comment: Crashes immediately when All2HD (upsampling) is enabled. Unable to play DVDs until WinDVD is reinstalled.
Customer Rating:
Summary: works well, but poor interface
Comment: I've used windvd for a lot of years, mainly because it is well-behaved and seems to play the wide variety of media that I want to play without complaint. This version is no different. I'm using this both on win xp and vista and have had no problems on either platform.
One thing that I really dislike about this version however are the controls. Everyone is familiar with vcr-style controls. Play, pause, stop, fast forward, fast reverse, and skip to next/prev chapter. So why dork with that? *boggle* But no, Coral decided that it would somehow improve the interface to remove the fast forward/fast reverse buttons and combine that functionality with the chapter forward and back. The net result is that it is a lot harder to use, and much less intuitive.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Corel WinDVD 9 Plus ENG builds upon WinDVD 9 by including playback of standarddefinition DVD and video with advanced All2HD upscaling for a near-HD viewing experience as well as AVCHD video playback.
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