The 'MoovieLive' tab was first added in PowerDVD 8, and remains unchanged from the previous versions here. When the PowerDVD 10 review was first out, Blu-ray 3D support was still unavailable, but it is now standard with the Ultra version of PowerDVD, and so there's a Blu-ray 3D tab with one single option to enable or disable 3D (disabling 3D would then play 3D movies in 2D mode). There's an option for Windows Vista/7 users to automatically enable/disabled Aero (some modes automatically force the disable of Aero, regardless of this setting). Hybrid discs contain both the DVD and Blu-ray versions of the movie on one side, and here you can specify which version plays for such discs. New to PowerDVD 10 was a 'hybrid' disc option, familiar to those that used PowerDVD 7 for HD DVD. Going into the advanced section, here you can change the persistent storage file location (persistent storage are things like bookmarks, downloads when PowerDVD is updated with BD-Live compatibility). You can also change BD-J keyboard support settings. There might be a way to by-pass the region protection if your Blu-ray drive is not hardware locked, and you can read our Blu-ray Region-Free Guide for more information. Here, you can configure locale information, including the Blu-ray region setting of PowerDVD. Let's go through the various setup sections:Īgain, things largely stay the same with the Blu-ray settings for owners of the Ultra edition of PowerDVD 12. All the usual options you would expect are there. The layout of the configuration section has been modified, but the options themselves remain familiar for users of PowerDVD.

This behaviour hasn't changed since the previous version. You can install this new version on top of the previous PowerDVD versions, meaning you can theoretically have 8, 9, 11 and 12 all installed at the same time, but you can only run one at any one time (and it's still very much recommended to only have one version installed at a time, due to incompatibility problems that may arise). Gigabyte EP45T-DS3R (built-in audio, Realtek ALC889A).Any features not found in the Standard or Deluxe versions of PowerDVD will be indicated.īelow are the specs for the test system used: Please take into account the fact that all ratings are for PowerDVD 11 Ultra. Below is a review for the latest version of PowerDVD.

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