Features:

  • All-purpose entertainment media player for Blu-ray 3D, DVD and 4K playback. You can now wirelessly send any media to your big screen through a Roku, Apple TV or Chromecast device.
  • All New TV Mode lets you control and enjoy PowerDVD on your big screen TV to immerse yourself in a movie watching experience.
  • Market leading audio support for a truly immersive sound environment. PowerDVD supports master quality sound technology-Dolby and DTS.
  • PowerDVD Remote: Sit back and relax while you browse and control your entertainment using your mobile phone.
  • Discs, files, ISO images, subtitles formats - PowerDVD supports it all! In PowerDVD 16 more formats support than ever before and ongoing improvements to TrueTheater enhancement technologies.
Works perfect in Windows 10.

Works perfect in Windows 10. I bought a few months ago a good Blu Ray SATA player for my gaming PC. Was looking for a cheep, but good software player. Cyberlink is the name for media, and they came through perfect. Also the normal price for the Ultra 16 edition of $99.99 was discounted to $51.XX so I took advantage of that savings and am very happy. I watched a DVD movie and a Blu Ray movie, both working well. Only issue, which is not bad, is sometimes in TV mode, a screen comes up blocking options, but no big deal. I use a 40 inch 1080P HDTV as my computer monitor, so that just be it. Get GOOD speakers, not your TV's crap speakers, makes all the difference, you won't regret it.

Helpful software

The software is easy to use and very handy to change to view in different mode, PC or TV.

The Best Windows Media Center Replacement Software Ever

For one of the best Windows Media Center software replacements Cyberlink Power DVD can't be beat. The Cyberlink Power DVD 16 Ultra is definitely and ultimately the best Cyberlink multimedia software package that there is. I've been waiting for a couple of years to be able to purchase this Power DVD 16 software, and the ability to get it from Amazon rather than directly from Cyberlink was exactly how I had hoped that I would be able to make the purchase. There are a couple other very excellent multimedia software packages that can be downloaded as well, that I also have on my laptop, but the Cyberlink Power DVD 16 Ultra is definitely one of my favorites. You cannot make any mistake purchasing this software, 100 percent easy installation, just put the included software disc into your Cd/DVD drive and run the auto run.exe with a internet connection and after the install put in the included activation code and Cyberlink Power DVD is yours to keep and use forever. There are a couple other Cyberlink software packages that I'm definitely looking at and will also be purchasing those through Amazon as well.

Amazing program. Works perfectly with all my music

Amazing program. Works perfectly with all my music. The install process could be smoother..

A great successor to my old PowerDVD 7.

I recently upgraded my computer from DVD to Blu-Ray support. I was concerned that the software might be excessively involved to learn, but I'm pleased to say that it's quite simple and intuitive. During installation, your given the chance to put all of your media files in CyberLink but I chose to set my player for DVD's and Blu-Rays, only. The installation was pretty quick, about 30 minutes. The installation hung at one point, so I tried turning off my anti-virus (Bitdefender), and the download proceeded nicely. I received a prompt offering a large update patch and decided to go ahead with it rather than chancing a conflict at some later point. The update was large and took a while. The patch then took another two minutes to install. When I did some Google research, I learned that a number of people received copies of the software with compromised keys. I'm pleased to say that my own copy worked perfectly. I suspected it would since it was not "shrink-wrapped", which is easily faked, but rather there was a proper factory style plastic seal on the box-flap. The activation key requires internet access while the program "phones home". The key is similar to the Microsoft Windows activation key. Six groups of five. One detail of some importance; when this program installs it automatically switches the sound to an external path (meaning a television, say). In my own setup, my computer monitor received the Blu-Ray video while my computers sound card and USB desktop speakers covered sound. To solve this problem, I opened My Computer and selected my sound settings. Simply mouse clicking the icon for my sound card instantly resolved the issue. This left one problem remaining. Using DVI, my computer would switch my monitor power on and off with the computer. But, when using the HDMI male to male connector, while it had a great picture, I had to manually turn on my blank monitor during startup. Very annoying. I wondered if a HDMI to DVI converter cable might resolve the issue? Here at Amazon, I bought a Rankie CL3 cable for about $7. It worked! Now I have full Blu-Ray quality and my monitor switches on and off with the computer. One less problem. My sound card bought at Amazon, is a venerable Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS. It has DVI and HDMI support. My Asus monitor has both HDMI and the less common version of the white DVI plug with a full 24 pins rather than the more usual pair of 3x3 pins, totaling 18. I'm not sure if those extra pins are needed for Blu-Ray support, so you might want to consult someone. Also, as I understand it, HDMI refers to the electrical standard, but there is also a second issue. Called HDCP, it is apparently used to protect intellectual property from piracy. Unless your monitor and graphics card support HDCP compliance, it might not show the image. My own monitor is HDCP compliant. and so far, has played every movie that I've tried. My first Blu-Ray movie, bought at Amazon, was Matt Damon's "The Martian". I was shocked at the image quality. One can see every pore, every hair. I should have gone Blu-Ray years ago! One other detail worth mentioning. This software makes discs, even DVDs, look sharper. Some kind of signal processing must be at work but the image quality of some of my old DVDs now look almost indistinguishable from Blu-Ray. A free perk!

HIGHLY recommended to get the best visual/video quality

Installs and activates without a hitch, very easy to set up... processes video effectively on an i5-4670 and 8GB of mid-speed DDR3 RAM, tested with or without dedicated discrete GPU card, though I have a 8 year-old GPU installed in the PCIe slot to keep the CPU cores available for software that is tuned for CPU usage like some 3D rendering apps I used in the background when not watching media. PowerDVD does an excellent job at altering color and contrast to keep blooming and crush minimal while enhancing the palette. From Gilligan's Island and Star Trek DS9 DVDs to Star Trek (TOS) Blu-Ray, one can see viable results, though TOS already had a very strong palette from its original 35mm restoration so far less work was done by the application - but a handful of hues could still be discerned by the untrained eye when before/after split screen mode was enabled to compare with. The strong source material only brings out the best in post-procesing, since weak material can only be improved on so much - remastered from source film brings out a larger gamut of hues to begin with, which only makes any post-post processing (if needed) look better. TOS didn't really need it, to be honest. To compare, Gilligan and DS9 DVDs had much more color detail brought from a flat and limited DVD gamut out that make me pine for a digitally remastered blu-ray release. For example, the blue silk hat and gown Mrs Howell had looks like pale fluff on the DVD but thanks to PowerDVD one can actually see the sheen. Mary Ann's white/red gingham dress no longer looks pale red/gray but white and red (and sharper...) I'm awed by their developers' processing finesse. Would love to post photos of paused scenes as examples but that might be a no-no. Still, this feature alone made the purchase worthwhile. Virtual sharpening/deinterlacing in almost every case works flawlessly, the few times I saw artifacting isn't worth mentioning. Indeed, for Gilligan's Island and Star Trek DS9, I was floored by how much virtual sharpness was added - especially in tightly intricate weaving on costumes - again, the software quality is amazing. From the Skipper's cap insignia to Mary Ann's dress, or plant leaves, the new sharpness adds a LOT - far more than I'd expected. It's not native blu-ray quality (oh, there's a difference!!) but it looks a heck of lot easier on the eyes now. As for TOS blu-ray, sharpening wasn't even done by the software due to the quality of the frames read from the disc. But even with discs, images are compressed so processing will be done. MPEG compression artifacting removal - again, stellar. Improvements from all media, but how it treated Trek TOS in removing all artifacting floored me over how delicately it removed the grain without ruining detail from the main picture. DVD recordings don't fare as well - again, the better the source means less invasive work has to be done - but improvements are still readily seen and tradeoffs are nil, this software is spectacular at what it does. Even TV shows recorded on first generation video tape have improvements, but not as much due to limitations of the source material and floodlit conditions. While upscaling and enhancing are no substitute to going back to the original 35mm films to restore, PowerDVD certainly beat my expectations in delivering a quality experience no set-top player can achieve. The "smart stretch" takes video to make it look as if it were shot through a concave lens of sorts. It does an impressive job at keeping focused/single human images (in or near-middle) in proportion while stretching/curving the rest of the screen. Only during fast pans or if the screen is loaded with people will a viewer notice anything weird, especially if they're consciously looking around and most won't, but it's much preferable to cropped letterboxing or pillarboxing "zoom" modes that set-top DVD players or TV sets use. The method used to add frames to make scenes more fluid I've not really used; I've preferred the granular look of 24fps where possible. In testing, it largely does a great job as well - no worse than 120HZ TV sets. A couple sundry issues, everyone has to have something?: 1. when clicking full screen, the menu doesn't always disappear after moving the mouse pointer off screen. 2. When processing video, does it do so in RAM or in HDD space? (People using SDDs might see shorter drive lifespan) 3. Can Blu-Ray region be changed in the application? 4. Wish a eject button was on the playback menu strip, as opposing to stop back to the main menu to see the eject button In short, a media PC can do a lot of great things - for disc media or even streaming. The higher quality the source means less processing has to be done, but due to compression issues it is inevitable some processing will be done. The results are always stellar. Highly recommended!

good product

works well no issues

Five Stars

Love the fact that it works

Great program for watching DVD or Blue ray's either on ...

Great program for watching DVD or Blue ray's either on your computer or using a cable from computer to your big screen tv. Love it.

Really Great Software

Really Happy with this Software. Works as reported. And More.

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