Re: Cyberlink Media Suite 9 Serial
Anastacia Iacono
In fairness, one mammoth program capable of doing everything would be incredibly unwieldy, but let's be honest, there's little chance you'd actually buy all these applications individually, making the saving less significant than it first seems.
Still, the most notable change from last year's release is in the price of the premium edition of the suite (the three versions have dropped to 50, 70 and 90). This is pretty reasonable considering the difference between the three packages is minor relative to what the average consumer uses.
Despite that, it's worth noting that only the top-end Ultra package (90) lets you play Blu-ray movies, and only the top two packages let you transcode video (for portable devices or social networks) and support 3D movies. The 50 Centra version is still good if you don't need any of these features.
Taken individually, none of these programs is the best in its field except the highly polished and popular PowerDVD, but they're all solid tools that can handle pretty much everything you throw at them.
This time around it includes social network integration that lets you review movies you're watching directly on Facebook or Twitter, along with a flash online front-end that updates to show you the latest DVD releases, offers tutorials on using the software. It also has separate tabs for playing movies in a wide range of formats and for handling music (if you need another music player in your life).
MediaShow is another simple application, this time focusing on photos. It integrates with Flickr and Facebook, creates slideshows or gallery discs, helps you print them, and generally keeps all your pictures neat and tidy.
Meanwhile, there's a triumvirate of applications to handle video production. PowerDirector is a good-tempered video editor, with a range of attractive effects and an easy drag-and-drop mechanic. It's still second to Premiere in terms of pure functionality, but it's definitely catching up, as demonstrated by the step up from the previous version's two video timelines to 16.
Finally we come to the suite's newest tool, MediaEspresso. If you want to convert media for portable use or social networks, this should be your first port of call. It's fast and reliable compared to the open source encoders we've tried, it has a wide range of outputs and the movies it produced from our test video transferred easily to iPhone and were generally of good quality.
Beyond these, the package includes label-makers, backup tools, DVD copiers, a sound editor, a fast photo clean-up tool and a variety of even smaller tools that all seem to replicate each other's functions, or at least seem to have overlapping areas of expertise.
Over the years, it's been fun to see how Cyberlink has brought these programs closer together, hiding the rough edges separating them behind increasingly slick interfaces. In this version you can even add programs as favourites in the launcher, though this doesn't reduce the number of clicks needed to get to them.
Sadly, this time round the suite seems to have become riddled with adverts, even at the Ultra level, ranging from ads for new videos in Power DVD to separate windows popping up in PowerProducer encouraging you to upgrade and (at the time of writing) annoying Christmas e-card messages on the interface. It's hardly the worst problem in the world, but is an irritating blemish on an otherwise great suite.
The suite has 12 PC packages. PowerDVD 14 handles media playback, PowerDirector 12 and PhotoDirector 5 provide video and photo editing, PowerProducer 6 and Power2Go 9 cover disc authoring and burning, MediaEspresso 7 handles your media conversion needs, and MediaShow 6, WaveEditor 2, PowerBackup 2.6, PowerDVD Copy 1.5, Label Print 2.5 and Instant Burn 5.0 are also thrown in.
And the suite also offers a trio of mobile apps. PowerDirector Mobile and a new PhotoDirector Mobile bring video and photo editing to Android and Windows 8 devices, while Power Media Player (formerly PowerDVD Mobile) is a media player for Android, iOS and Windows 8.
We wouldn't pay for every Media Suite Ultimate application, but if you'll use two or three of them - PowerDVD, PowerDirector, PhotoDirector, maybe the mobile apps - then it's great value for money, and there's a stack of interesting extras to explore.
CyberLink Media Suite is a comprehensive multimedia solution combining the most powerful CyberLink products working with different types of media data. The suite includes over 15 different products.
Media Suite uses a united master interface to provide access to 12 PC packages and 3 efficient mobile apps. First, there's PowerDVD to handle and enhance media playback (this tool works with video files, audio, DVD containers, 4K formats, 3D, etc). Then there's a more powerful tool: PowerDirector, and advanced editing tool capable of producing professional-looking videos. Another tool, PhotoDirector, is an editing solution to work with photographs and other images. PowerProducer and Power2Go are good for working with disk images and content: DVD and Blu-ray movie discs creation, ripping, image mounting, etc.
MediaEspresso is a tool included to perform conversion operations and MediaShow helps organize and share audio, video and image files used by the suite. Finally, there is WaveEditor for audio recording and adjustment and a final set of additional tools for more mundane technical tasks: PowerBackup, PowerDVD Copy, Label Print, Instant Burn.
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Firmware is housed on the Optical Disc Drive itself. This provides instructions to the drive about how to operate, such as which laser to use, how fast to rotate the discs, or what to do when the open/close button is pressed.
Drivers are housed on the computer and allow the computer to communicate with the disc drive. These instructions may include how to interpret the data that is sent by the drive, what type of data it is, or how to send data to the drive to be burned.
If experiencing issues related to DVD/Blu-ray playback or burning, your playback software may have been removed or corrupted during the update from earlier versions of Windows to Windows 10. Please uninstall/reinstall the playback/burning software to correct this issue.
For users with new machines (first time using the LG Optical Disc Drive on this computer), additional software is required for Blu-ray playback/burning. Retail versions of these drives include the required software in the box (DO NOT LOSE). Other versions such as OEM, or for users who have misplaced their original software, may require third-party software for Blu-ray features.
Media playback software, such as the Cyberlink Media Suite that comes with our drives, is used to process the data that is sent to the computer from the disc drive. This type of software converts the data into a format that people can understand, such as a video.
CyberLink Media Suite contains all of the software needed to Watch, Author, and/or Burn Blu-ray discs. This is an OEM specialized version of CyberLink's media suite, which may have different functionality than a retail version. CyberLink will provide updates to the software as needed.
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