I remember that 10 months ago James was joking about a February Slyplayer release (it was in March I think), probably they never thought that the development of Slyplayer would take that long... Or he wasn't joking... these geniuses
He may have said "February" but he never said "February of 2010".
February 2012.
So it will be compatible with the Blu ray 3D
Seriously, today PDVD is a good program, I'm using W7 media center with media browser and the integration is just great, I watched 3 movies without a single problem. I'm not bitstreaming the audio, but Transformes Revenge sounded magnifecent with my new Velodyne Subwoofer. For just $45 I can enjoy my movies this year 2010 and I can always switch to Slyplayer in 2012 Hopefully before the end of the world... these Hollywood movies.
The reason why we don't like PDVD is that they charge you a small fortune just to be able to watch a Blu-ray. If you rip the blu-ray to the hard drive and mount it, it will no longer play it. If you turn it into an .mkv it will no longer play it. So, they only thing you get is the ability to play a disk. That defeats much of the advantage of having a Media Center PC. I like to be able to click on the blu-ray movies in my Movies in Media Center and watch the blu-ray content just like the dvd content.
While I haven't used a version of PDVD since 7.3 (a Blu-Ray and HD-DVD compatible version that came bundled with my LG drive), I personally didn't find it to be that great a player.
I was in the same situation until last week, do you know PowerDVD already has "support for bitstreaming" audio with the ATI cards? (well, sort of). By the way PowerDVD costs $45 upgrading from the version bundled with the LG drives.
Don't count on Slyplayer being free. Maybe you haven't noticed but Slysoft products are pretty expensive, they are in business to make money. I'm not knocking their products which are excellent, particularly AnyDVD, but they aren't exactly giving them away.Slyplayer for free would destroy their business if it has the DXVA and CUDA features.
Don't count on Slyplayer being free. Maybe you haven't noticed but Slysoft products are pretty expensive, they are in business to make money. I'm not knocking their products which are excellent, particularly AnyDVD, but they aren't exactly giving them away.
Don't count on Slyplayer being free. Maybe you haven't noticed but Slysoft products are pretty expensive, they are in business to make money. I'm not knocking their products which are excellent, particularly AnyDVD, but they aren't exactly giving them away.