Hi everybody,

I've been using PowerDVD for many years, all different versions and many different computers. As you know, PowerDVD can be very cranky and suddenly stop working. Many people's experience has been that PowerDVD is among the most difficult of all software to keep running smoothly. There are no doubt multiple things which can can cause problems, including the usual driver and software problems and conflicts.

However, after years of problems on multiple machines in our house, using v7, 8 and 9, and having issues with crashing of Blu-Rays and even DVDs, we have discovered a simple solution that solved the crashing on two separate machines using diffenet verions of PowerDVD and even having different motherboards, one with an AMD graphics card and the other with Nvidia!

Particularly if you are having difficulty with PowerDVD not being able to start a movie correctly (and crashing), try uninstalling Java. This fixed PowerDVD for us and also enabled the moving omages on the Bing home page. If this works for you, you should be able to download and reinstall the latest Java with no problems.

I hope this helps some of you with PowerDVD frustrations.

It is the best player available in spite of the issues (I've certainly tried enough of them to know). Playing back movies is a complex business these days.