Porting over PowerDvd14 to the new machine seemed to require too many hoops to get thru and since there was a sale on PowerDVD 17 here on amazon during the holidays I figured I'd give it a shot. Since then I've gotten a new Win10 pro 64bit machine with a Kaby Lake quad-core i7, 16g of Ram and an AMD Radeon RX580. I wasn't super happy with the program, but when I wanted to watch BDs from my PC it worked most of the time so it was good enough. I've had a few issues with it and I certainly didn't like it aggressively trying to set itself up as the default app for all of my media. In fact they claimed it was there on the 24th of December but it didn't actually appear until the 6th of January.I have PowerDVD 14 on my older Win7 -64bit. Oh well, I suppose you can't have everything! I think all this minor hassle has been the fault of a tardy Cyberlink who didn't have the correct patch on their site at the proper time. The only slight problem is that my version is now called DVD version instead of the expected DVD version. The one which has just appeared on Cyberlink's site is PDVD_ whereas the one I downloaded before was called PDVD5_patch.exe. When I looked at the two different patches they were both 9.35MB and both from GoCyberlink but they did have slightly different names. Guess what, it did exactly as a patch should do and installed without asking for a CD-Key. I went to Cyberlink's official site this morning (7th January 2004) and downloaded the officially posted patch (still at very slow 6KB/sec (via ADSL) but at least it didn't keep timing out like it did last night when all the Americans were still awake!). Well, the mystery is at an end, well almost. My advice: save your money for something else, or wait until (or if) Cyberlink ever gets its act together. Or, in my case, my 2nd monitor has an unused HDMI port, and for the price of PowerDVD ultra I can buy a standalone blu-ray player and plug it in there, without all these hassles. As for blu-rays, there are workarounds, such as AnyDVD in conjunction with other media players, that are cheaper than PowerDVD. WMP and Windows Media Center also play DVDs satisfactorily. Media Player Classic plays DVDs just as well, or better, and comes in 64-bit. Theoretically a good player, but overpriced and buggy. And the installer for the 'upgrade' version requires me to install every previous version I've ever bought first, along with leaving thousands of unused leftover values in the Windows Registry from early PowerDVD versions.
Version 11 also disables Windows Aero when I play even regular DVDs and is flakey about using my Xonar Essence sound card. The patch will not install in Win7/64 upgrade configurations.
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