whatever_gong82
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What's weird and very telling is that July will be a little half over on the 16th, and Cyberlink is still selling PowerDVD 22 Ultra (which came out last year on May 12th) right now at 30% off ($69.99 US dollars.)
In years past, PowerDVD would already by now be on their newest version of their software, but I think that even Cyberlink is seeing sales plummet from what they were as recently as 5-10 years ago as more people are using digital media instead of Blu-ray discs or DVDs.
And, since PowerDVD has the Cinavia audio check enabled in the software, others have moved on and are using other non-Cinavia checking software such as VLC, MPC-HC, JRiver (and I have all 3 on my 2 Windows laptops) and so on.
Personally, I think that Cyberlink needs to keep the $69.99 US price as the suggested retail price, since you can get a halfway decent Panasonic Blu-ray player online from Amazon starting at around $63 during their current Prime sales event. And if you keep the machine in decent shape, it will last at least a few years, without paying for a update every year like you do if you get a new version of PowerDVD like I have for the past decade.
Anyway, I still prefer Blu-ray over digital. But, I'm slowly starting to think about getting rid of all my Blu-rays and DVDs and just use AS+ to download what I want, and save the files on external drives.
In years past, PowerDVD would already by now be on their newest version of their software, but I think that even Cyberlink is seeing sales plummet from what they were as recently as 5-10 years ago as more people are using digital media instead of Blu-ray discs or DVDs.
And, since PowerDVD has the Cinavia audio check enabled in the software, others have moved on and are using other non-Cinavia checking software such as VLC, MPC-HC, JRiver (and I have all 3 on my 2 Windows laptops) and so on.
Personally, I think that Cyberlink needs to keep the $69.99 US price as the suggested retail price, since you can get a halfway decent Panasonic Blu-ray player online from Amazon starting at around $63 during their current Prime sales event. And if you keep the machine in decent shape, it will last at least a few years, without paying for a update every year like you do if you get a new version of PowerDVD like I have for the past decade.
Anyway, I still prefer Blu-ray over digital. But, I'm slowly starting to think about getting rid of all my Blu-rays and DVDs and just use AS+ to download what I want, and save the files on external drives.