Sadly such DRM mechanisms can push people into ripping their movies just so they can insulate themselves from such unwanted reach (by the MPAA) into their costly home movie collection. In fact Microsoft has even shut down one of their DRM music servers which locked peole out of the music they bought and caused quite an issues. Upon 'upgrading' to the new version I immediately found that most of my movies that played fine using Ver. To enable 3D playback, just select the button on the playback controls. CyberLink PowerDVD also automatically converts all 2D DVDs and video files to 3D using TrueTheater 3D once 3D mode is enabled.
The point here, sometimes still you will find it a painful experience to import MP4 files to PowerDirector (PD 15 Ultra/Ultimate/Ultimate Suite/Director Suite included) for editing. Specifically, it does not seem to want to play Blu-Ray discs or. When you insert a 3D Blu-ray Disc or DVD, or play a 3D video file, CyberLink PowerDVD plays it back automatically in 3D if 3D mode is enabled. Cyberlink claims that PowerDirector offer native support for MP4 format. Such hasn't been used as yet (other than early PowerDVD BD software being revocated?) but the mechanism allows for it.ĭRM puts the scheme owners in controll of the things you buy. PowerDVD 17 will not play movies on my computer that played perfectly well using PowerDVD 15. What's worse is that you could insert a BD disk into your BD drive within your PC or even within your BD player under your TV and the revocation mechanism could be used to force the BD reader/software/player to toast itself and stop any BD playback. And it's easy for them to use this to stop updates and thus push you to a new version and have you pay $$ over and over again.
Each year, new keys may be needed which means the software providers must release updates just to watch the new relaeses. This means that you are on the upgrade treadmill when it comes to BD movie playback on PC. Added to this is a revocation mechanisms that could render your player or software obsolete. You can now wirelessly send any media to your. BluRay discs use a rather onerous form of Digital Rights Management that mandates periodic updates to the decryption keys and the java based unscrambling mechanism used to simply view your purchased discs. All-purpose entertainment media player for Blu-ray 3D, DVD and 4K playback.