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It would seem that there will be no more compatibility updates to enable users to play discs for PowerDVD 7,8 or 9.
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/19324.page
Frankly, we all would have been better to give it a miss and buy a standalone Bluray Player, because I doubt major hardware vendors would leave us all in the lurch the way Cyberlink have.
PowerDVD 9.0 Ultra tells me that an update is required to play the disc, and Cyberlink tell me that no upgrade is available but they have offered to let me upgrade my player (for a fee). Funnily enough, I wasn't aware that I was "renting" the softwares capacity to play Bluray discs when I purchased it.
** A note to anyone from Cyberlink who may read this **
The Bluray copy-protection standard was always going to require updates. If your product was going to have a finite usable life-span simply because you would shelve it, then this should have been made clear.
I did not buy your software, expecting it to be unusable after a couple of years. I am sure most of your customers feel the same way.
Prospective PowerDVD 12 customers should reasonably expect that their software will cease to be usable after 3 years, and they will be expected to fund an upgrade. Whether they wish to proceed along those lines, and indulge deliberate gouging is (obviously) up to them.
Shameful.
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