| | |  | Groceries | Home » » Corel WinDVD 9 Plus (Blu-ray) | | | | | | | Description: | | WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray is DVD, Blu-ray Disc and video playback software that delivers quality and entertainment in style. Play spectacular Blu-ray and HD DVD discs on your PC, or enjoy standard DVDs with state-of-the-art HD-quality upscaling. Take your movies on the go with advanced battery optimization controls for laptops. Play home movies recorded on the latest high-definition AVCHD camcorders. Choose WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray for the ultimate DVD and video playback experience. | | | Features: | |
• Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD playback (Blu-ray drive or HD DVD drive required)--Play high-definition commercial titles with interactive features, or recordable Blu-ray/HD DVD media
• Supports all Blu-ray and HD DVD video encoding formats, such as MPEG-4-AVC (H.264), MPEG-2, and VC1
• Supports HD Audio technologies from Dolby and DTS including Dolby Digital Plus, uncompressed Dolby TrueHD, and DTS HD for commercial Blu-ray and HD DVD movies
• Plays video from recordable HD DVD or Blu-ray media such as HD DVD-R, BD-R and RE discs; play standard DVDs at HD resolution with unique upscaling and motion enhancement
• Includes all the features and capabilites of the WinDVD 9 Plus
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.6 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 7.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.45 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 128 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows Vista / Windows XP | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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 does not work with blueray on Win 7May 31, 2010
Everything worked fine with earlier versions on Win XP, but none of my blueray disks play with same hardware on Win 7 64 bit and Corel Tech support does not provide any support. Win 7 is trickier to set up for blueray, but of the available blue ray players for Win 7, this is the most unusable.
 Sometimes it almost can play a blu-rayMay 21, 2010
Plays DVDs ok, but sometimes freezes. Blu-ray? Well, you have to run as administrator to get it to even try - yeah, nice software design, and it hangs about half the time. When it does try to play, the playback pauses every few seconds. Every disc I have tried has this problem. Also, decrypted discs played from the HD do the same. My GPU is a Radeon HD 3200 IGP (780g MB), which is pretty common, so there isn't any excuse for incompatibility. Even after an HD reformat and clean windows install, it still doesn't work. I can blay BDs with powerDVD just fine on the same hardware.
I can't write this without mentioning Corel's tech support. Its almost comical, except I got the sense that I wasn't really talking to a helpless moron, but instead someone playing dumb and wasting my time so I would just go away, and probably laughing at me for being dumb enough to buy this program. One of them actually told me my problem was that I didn't actually have a blu-ray drive. I probably should have given up then.
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Save your money.Apr 14, 2010
The only positive thing Corel WinDVD 9 Plus provided in my experience was comic relief, because after hours of putting up with it's problems and inconsistencies, that's all I could do was laugh it off and give up. The customer support is a joke. You have to email them and the only responses you'll get are either a) download the patches or b) uninstall and reinstall the program. When neither of these works to fix all issues, you're left with the option of calling tech support at a cost of $15! Outrageous.
In the end, I am left with a program that works to play standard DVD's, will not play HD-DVD's at all, and freaks out at random spots when trying to play Blu-ray. A complete waste of time. The best advice I can give is to save your money and stay far, far away from this product.
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 Blu-ray Movies on the Mac, it's PossibleApr 04, 2010
I have an Intel Mac with gobs of ram and run Windows 7 through Boot Camp. I usually watch my DVDs via Apple's DVD player, have never used Window's Media Player. However, I have a Blu-ray player hooked up to my TV and thought I'd like one for my Mac as well. Well, if you wanna watch Blu-ray movies on your Mac you gotta -- wait, you can't.
So what to do, what to do? You boot in Windows and get WinDVD 9 plus Blu-ray, that's what you do. Well, it's not exactly that easy, you need a Blu-ray drive, preferably a recordable one. I checked on Amazon and they had a Lacie Blu-ray drive for a whole gang of money, over six hundred bucks, way to much, heck I'll keep watching 'em on my big TV. But not to be deterred, I went to Lacie's website and found the same deal, six hundred bucks. Not only is that a lot of money, but I wasn't sure they'd even play Blu-ray movies. I couldn't tell from their website, but it looks like not, looks like Mr. Jobs and Co. don't want me watching movies on their hardware.
So I went looking and found a Pioneer Blu-ray player that will work. Didn't come with the cable I needed, but that was okay, I got one at my local computer store. Yes the Pioneer was a hundred and seventy-five smackers. Still more than I wanted to spend, but now I can watch (but not write) Blu-ray movies on my Mac. Well, if I boot into Windows 7.
Okay, I've got all the hardware, got the ram, got it all, so I installed the software and that went well, easy peasy. The graphite interface I like. If you're a Mac person you definitely won't be offended. Movies are wonderful, both Blu-ray and not.
I like the controls on this video player, definitely better than the Mac's vanilla player for navigating around in a movie. I wish they made this software for the Mac, that would be so cool, but they don't, so you take what you can get. However, I'm betting Steve Jobs is looking over this app right now and I'm betting he's gonna come up with something real soon just as good. Maybe, but if he doesn't, it's okay, because I can watch Blu-ray movies on my Mac whether he approves or not.
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AvoidMar 20, 2010
I'll keep this short and sweet.
There are few options for blu ray software, the consumer has a choice of two or three.
I went with Corel because it was 40 dollars, a bargain. Well, it plays the disks when it works but some of the personal options for standard DVDs do not work. I installed all the patches that are available and I emailed customer support. In order to get any more than basic support (a week to get a reply) you have to pay for it.
In short, it's a steaming pile of something I won't mention and I'll never do business with corel again.
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