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Corel WinDVD 9 Plus (Blu-ray)
Corel WinDVD 9 Plus (Blu-ray)

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Category: Software

List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $53.19
You Save: $46.80 (47%)



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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 97 reviews
Sales Rank: 404

Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8 x 2.2

MPN: WD9PLBDENPC
Model: WD9PLBDENPC
UPC: 735163120448
EAN: 0735163120448
ASIN: B0015RTDI2

Release Date: March 28, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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
Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Does your PC have a Blu-ray DVD drive and you want to watch HD movies? Then use WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray, the ultimate DVD and video player for your PC. It plays Blu-ray, HD DVD and standard DVDs. Supports DVD-Video, DivX, RealPlayer, QuickTime, Windows Media, H.264 and AVI SD to HD Conversion De-snow and De-block Filters Unique All2HD Upscaling Technology DTS 96K/24bit Decoding

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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.

Choose WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray for the ultimate DVD and video playback experience.

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DVD & Video Playback for Today

  • Blu-ray and HD DVD support--Experience stunning high-definition entertainment on your PC.
  • State-of-the-art Upscaling--Play standard DVDs at HD resolution with unique upscaling and motion enhancement.
  • Movies on the Go--Powerful laptop features ensure the best movie experience--wherever you are!
  • Memories--Enjoy the full quality of high-definition home movies recorded with the latest AVCHD or Blu-ray camcorders.

Unique All2HD offers state-of-the-art upscaling.

See more of the action with advanced Digital Natural Motion.

Enjoy your video collection like never before. Watch standard DVD movies at near-HD quality with captivating surround sound.

Watch movies wherever you are.

Play crystal-clear high-definition home movies from the latest AVCHD camcorders.

Stylish Good Looks
The sophisticated graphite interface blends seamlessly with your Windows XP or Vista desktop.

  • New graphite color--Up-to-date and professional look.
  • New layout--A clutter-free and easy-to-navigate interface.
  • Compact mode instantly hides navigation controls to show just your video.
  • Boss Key--Now you see it, now you don't! One click pops the player out of the way.
  • Message Center--Don't miss out on product updates, exclusive offers and fun tips and trick

Technology Powerhouse
Maximize your viewing experience with state-of the-art technologies, such as Blu-ray and HD DVD playback, standard-definition upscaling, and unique features for watching movies on the go.

Blu-ray Disc/HD DVD playback

  • Play high-definition commercial titles with interactive features, or recordable Blu-ray/HD DVD media.
  • Enjoy the immersive entertainment experience of BD-J and HD DVD Advanced Navigation features without interrupting your movie.
  • The first playback software to support the new BD BonusView picture-in-picture features.
  • 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.
  • Complies with Blu-ray & HD DVD content protection protocols to ensure reliable playback.

Make your standard DVDs look like HD video!

  • Unique All2HD upscaling--convert standard DVDs to crisp high-definition video with outstanding color and clarity.
  • Auto-scaling intelligently tailors playback to fit monitor resolution and refresh rate.
  • Advanced de-interlacing auto-detects film frame rate and ensures crisp edges even on fast-moving objects.
  • Digital Natural Motion--choose from several presets for the smoothest possible playback.
  • Image sharpness can be adjusted for a better-than-original look.

Laptop-friendly

  • Extend playback time with Battery Optimization.
  • Be sure to catch the ending with unique TimeStretch playback.
  • Smart Stretch lets you watch your movies in standard or Widescreen.
  • Enjoy Virtual Surround Sound even when listening on headphones and stereo speakers.

Reduce unsightly playback artifacts and video noise.

Add immersive surround sound audio effects.

WinDVD is the best choice for enjoying movies on the go.

Enhance low-resolution video
Clean up digital artifacts from MPEG, H.264 and VC-1 video

  • De-snow filter removes digital noise from low-resolution video.
  • De-block filter removes blocky digital artifacts from compressed video.

Hardware graphics acceleration
WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray supports display cards featuring ATI AVIVO HD and NVIDIA PureVideo HD technologies that offer hardware-enhanced video playback.

  • Enjoy sharper, more vibrant video images
  • Minimize CPU utilization and power consumption, particularly during playback of Blu-ray/HD DVD discs.
  • Apply advanced de-interlacing
  • Scale videos to any size with high-precision processing

The best of the audio world
WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray supports leading audio technologies for an immersive listening experience.

  • Play HD audio formats like Dolby Digital Plus, uncompressed Dolby TrueHD, and DTS HD for commercial Blu-ray and HD DVD movies.
  • Dolby Pro Logic IIx--Transforms 2-channel (stereo) audio to surround sound, or expands 5.1 sources up to 7.1 speaker systems. Choose Movie or Music modes.
  • Dolby Digital EX--Enjoy 6.1 or 7.1-channel playback with appropriate hardware.
  • DTS surround audio--Supports up to 6 channels of audio for titles with DTS audio
  • SRS audio technologies--Enhance movie dialog or music, or create a virtual surround effect on two speakers with SRS TruSurround.
  • 96 kHz/24-bit audio decoding--Play back audiophile-quality audio.
  • Dolby Virtual Speaker--An advanced psychoacoustics algorithm creates a 5.1 surround sound environment on two speakers.
  • Dolby Headphone--Processes 5.1 audio to create a vivid surround environment on standard headphones.

More video effects and convenient playback controls

  • Video Effects--Customize and improve the look of movies with Cinema Enhancement, Vintage, Sharpness, and more!
  • SmartStretch--Fills your widescreen display when viewing 4:3 movies by intelligently stretching only the edges of the video and maintaining the center portion of the image.
  • Pan & Zoom--WinDVD lets you click and drag to zoom in and pan across any part of the screen to get a closer look.
  • Playlists--Create your own playlists with audio tracks or video files from DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs and CDs.
  • Bookmark favorite spots and save them as a file (.bmk) for later, or send to a friend.
  • UPnP Client--Plays back content from other UPnP-certified devices within a home network, with enhanced thumbnail views of available clips on the network.
  • Capture Image/QuickClip--The new capture controls make it even easier to grab your favorite movie scene as a still picture or animated clip, that you can easily share with friends via email or mobile phone!
  • Instant Replay--Ctrl-B lets you jump back to the line you missed, or catch that action sequence again!
  • Smooth Reverse Playback--WinDVD 9 supports smooth reverse playback without frame drops.

Complete Format support
Enjoy reliable playback of high-definition or standard-definition video recorded from HDTV, camcorder, or downloaded from the Web.

  • Popular video formats--supports DVD-Video, DivX, RealPlayer, QuickTime, Windows Media, and AVI.
  • H.264 Support--Smoothly plays back the next-generation format for premium content and downloaded video, in standard as well as high-definition.
  • HDTV Support--Navigate and play MPEG-2 HD Transport Stream (M2T) video from captured HDTV programs.

Enjoy HD home movies
Today's high-definition camcorders let you record your personal memories in stunning clarity. Play them at full resolution!

  • AVCHD--Supports playback of video from AVCHD camcorders, either copied from the camcorder hard drive, on AVCHD disc, or memory card.
  • Plays HD video recorded on the latest Blu-ray camcorders from Hitachi.
  • HDV video--Play HD video captured from HDV camcorders.
  • Plays video from recordable HD DVD or Blu-ray media such as HD DVD-R, BD-R and RE discs.
  • Plays HD-Rec discs (HD DVD video recorded on standard DVD media).


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WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray WinDVD 9 Plus WinDVD 9 Standard WinDVD 8 Platinum WinDVD 8 Gold
Blu-ray/HD DVD Playback Features
HD DVD Type1/2
HD DVD Advanced Content
BDAV
BDMV/BDJ
BD-RE 3.0
BonusView (BD-Video Profile 1.1)
DD+ 2CH
DD+ multi channel
Dolby TrueHD 2ch
Dolby TrueHD multi channel
DTS-HD 2CH
DTS-HD multi-channel
New Features
New UI Style
SD to HD Conversion
de-snow/de-block
All2HD
Full AVCHD Support
DTS NEO 6
DTS 96K/24bit decoding
Codec/File format support (720p, 1080i)
H.264
VC1
MPEG-2
DivX file playback
DivX subtitle
DVD+VR Playback
VCD/SVCD/DVD-VR Playback
WMV file playback
WMV HD
QuickTime format support
RealPlayer Format
Audio Features
High definition audio decoding
Multi-channel MP3 playback
Dolby Digital 2CH
Dolby Digital 5.1CH
Dolby Digital EX
Dolby Prologic IIX
Dolby Headphone
Dolby Virtual Speaker
DTS 2CH
DTS 6CH
SRS TruSorround XT
SRS Headphone
Video Features
Smooth reverse playback
SmartStretch
Progressive de-interlace
Zoom and Pan
Other Features
Power Saver
LanguageMate
UPnP Client
Notebook Battery Meter
Capture
QuickClip
Thumbnail Bookmark
Time Stretch
PureVideo (HD)
Radeon
NVIDIA PureVideo HD
hardware acceleration
ATI AVIVO HD hardware acceleration


Customer Reviews:   Read 92 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars Blu-ray is cool! This even works in conjunction with a laptop!   November 6, 2008
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I am always concerned when I add "anything" extra or special to my laptop. Will the software which I am considering ultimately be the final "coup de grace" which sends my whole system over the edge, figuratively? Then where will I be? Sitting helplessly as my laptop swears at me and leaves town once again? I hate that, and it makes me timid. My watchword concerning computers tends to be this: avoid adding anything to a computer you own which is actually in any sort of working order.

We go through laptops like other households go through cheesy poofs, and it's alwas a time consuming mess to get one fixed. And we are always, always doing that, because we have a lot of enthusiastic kids, and they LOVE computers. So...is it surprising when one breaks again? Never, to us.

We even have two laptops with the dreaded Vista. We are desolate when they are temporarily out of commission. Supposedly this program works with Vista. I did not attempt that however, because loading this and breaking everthing was not the point, for the purposes of this review.

I am prefacing this review with all this info because despite the situation here, the idea of Bue-ray availabilty was too tempting to resist. I HAD to try this (ultimately worthwhile) software item on one of our computers.

And guess what: it was worth it! WinDVD9 Plus Blu-ray is great! Its easy to install, easy to use program enables you to make your DVDs look like HD video!

What an astounding difference! The clarity is amazing and incredible.

What's more, you can play both Blu-ray and HD discs. It even supports Dolby True HD and DTS-HD.

It's a wonder!

Corel is a fine company which generally makes products I find excellent. So here you go. If you want to take a chance, as I did, give this a try and see what you think! I am glad we have it!



4 out of 5 stars Good/reasonably price piece of software   November 5, 2008
Good playback with plenty of controls for video enhancement plus surround audio. Fairly quick blue-ray loading. Very pleased.

Note: For those of you with dual video cards using analog outputs (VGA/component video), use dualview and put the player in the HDTV side of your desktop so you won't run into the digital copyright protection issue/shutdown.


2 out of 5 stars WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray Needs a Lot of Work.   October 30, 2008
For the past three weeks, to no avail, I am been working on-and-off with several computers to get WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray to work. I thought for sure that my newest computer, a Dell XPS 420 could make WinDVD work because it exceeded the required specs: Minimum CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 2.40 Ghz (mine was a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2/5 Ghz w/6 MB cache and 375W power supply); 256 MB system memory (mine was 3.0 GB); 128 MB VGA RAM (mine was 256 MB); ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card (mine was the Radeon HD 2600 XT). My OS was Vista Ultimate. My Blu-ray was a Blu-ray AND DVD+/-RW,X read/write (PLDS DH-4B1S 4X H/H SATA BD-RE). No dice!

I could get WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray to work on my XP Media Center PC, and I really liked what I saw including the playback features it had, but I was really hoping that I would find a program that could integrate better with my Blu-ray burner/player. Even after cutting-out most of the background programs, I couldn't get WinDVD9 Plus Blu-ray to even load.

As a Vine reviewer, I was given a contact person, and the URL of a web site, to help me if I had any problems. Initially, I thought about using that contact (I did visit the web site and found I had done all that they were were telling people to do if they had problems), but I realize that the average person would not have that sort of service at their finger tips, so I didn't pursue such assistance, but I tried to work through the problems using the help and other information provided with the product. It was all to no avail.

I hope that one day there will be a good program that can help me utilize the full capabilities of my Blu-ray burner, but for now, I am going to have to resign myself to using Power DVD DX that came with my computer.

I game this program two stars because when it worked on my XP computer with a regular DVD, not a Blu-ray, it showed that it had some great features.




4 out of 5 stars Nice video and audio enhancements, but needs a few tweaks and bug fixes   October 23, 2008
Overall I was really impressed with Corel WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray. It had some very nice features that improved the audio, video, plus some additional cool features.

First off, I love the color enhancements. The presets for LCD, CRT, and Projector were very nice. The projector enhancement darkened the overall picture, but increased the contrast, the LCD improved the brightness. I didn't play too much with the CRT preset because I don't have any CRT monitors at present.

Next, there were some video enhancement features, but I wonder why some were included. I primarily use the "cinema enhancement" in conjunction with the upsampling of regular DVDs. It produced a noticeably crisper, brighter, and detailed picture that the standard settings. There are also options to view in vintage (similar to sepia tone), negative, abstract, and more which I didn't find added anything to any DVD I tried.

Corel WinDVD 9 also has Smart Stretch settings, so at the click of a button you can change for 4:3 to 16:9, or even manually adjust your screen width so your movie will fill the screen completely.

My favorite feature is the time stretch feature. You can adjust the playback speed to go faster or slower depending upon how much time you have to watch the film. I found that 20% faster was just as easy to understand and was a real time saver. Faster speeds worked well too, but I don't expect everyone will enjoy watching a movie any faster than at a 20% increase.

My primary complaint is that the controls, especially the video controls don't work during pause. It would be nice to pause a scene and then make adjustments to get the picture just perfect.

Another really nice feature of Corel WinDVD 9 is the Trimension All2HD which up-scales even better than the standard up-scaling and cinema enhancement offered in the color controls. At first I didn't believe it was making a difference, and then I clicked on "demo mode" which made the left side of my screen "as is" while the right side of my screen showed the picture with Trimension All2HD. The picture difference was stunning, and I would have believed my DVD was a blu-ray even though it was not. I will caution you though that unless you have plenty of RAM, it will be choppy at times. I am running Windows Vista Home Premium SP1, 32-bit operating system with 2 GB of RAM on a 17" HP Pavilion laptop, and although I loved the Trimension All2HD, I had to switch back to standard upsampling (vs. up-scaling) because it was not smooth playback even though the picture was stunning.

This software really shines with the audio controls. This software supports Dolby surround and Dolby Pro Logic movie and music modes, as well as multiple speaker configurations. The hall effects included with this software also has hall effects including Sydney Theater, Chicago Theater, and Broadway Theater. The DSP settings have 17 equalizer modes to suit any type of music, plus custom and default settings.

Overall I'm happy with this software, but I wish I had more RAM to fully utilize the Trimension All2HD up-scaling, and I wish you could pause to see the effects on a still screen. I also found this software crashes much more often than other DVD playback programs, but I'm hoping through software updates they can work out some of those issues. I find if I make too many adjustments that the program just crashes, but now that I know my preferred settings and stick with them it's become more stable.


3 out of 5 stars Not What I Expected (But please read the update)   October 16, 2008
I really couldn't see any big difference with this product. Maybe it's just my screen capability, but I do havea nice LCD 720P resolution monitor. I tried watching a presentation using this product on my regular equipment and then looked at the same presentation on my older equipment without this product installed... if there was a difference it was very slight. I'm going to give it another try and if it seems any better I will update this review, but at this time I can only give it 3 stars and that's ainly because I like the concept and want it to work as stated.

UPDATE: Okay, I've given this item another star (now a four star rating) maybe even a 4 1/2 star. I had some DvDs that were not the best quality... home videos and outside wildlife shots. I took the time to use this product on them and got some exceptional results. Any of the blur was gone, the video was so much more clear and it seems that the sound quality was also enhanced. I had some evening shots of some deer that were taken in our back yard. The original video was of such poor quality you could hardly make out what it was. After using WinDVD 9 Plus the vidoe was what I would call "National Geographic" quality.

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