On Friday, when I received an e-mail telling me about Cyberlink PowerDVD 15 debuting, I immediately thought to myself, "this is basically the same as PowerDVD 14." And I was getting really to delete the e-mail, and right before I did, I read the headline on how PowerDVD 15 is the 1st Commercial HEVC Media playback to use Hardware-acceleration.
I immediately thought to myself that couldn't be given that PowerDVD 14 was being advertised last year for having HEVC support. So I read the e-mail thoroughly and realized that PowerDVD 14 did, indeed, have HEVC support for decoding, but only for software, not for hardware-acceleration.
Despite this being kinda false advertisement, i.e. legal grievance, I just went ahead and bought the Ultra PowerDVD 15 with my hard-earnt money. I been using PowerDVD 14 for months so it would be hard-pressed trying to get a refund based upon false advertisement at this stage.
On a whim, I decided that if Cyberlink is so under-handed to do this with decoding, I should check if they are doing the same with encoding- PowerDirector 13. And just like PowerDVD 14, PowerDirector 13 was being advertised as having HEVC support for encoding; but now after contacting Cyberlink and gettting an official response from them, I realized I was duped again because PowerDirector 13 doesn't support Hardware-acceleration.
Which basically means that Cyberlink within a couple of months will be coming out with yet another iteration of their PowerDirector series which will be dubbed the 1st Commercial Editing Software to feature HEVC encoding with Hardware-Acceleration.
In other words: We want more of your money so bend over nicely so we can stick it in real deep.
The Tech Industry really needs to get sued in oblivion. Whether it's Microsoft and Google helping the government to spy on us, Nvidia lying to their customers about VRAM on their graphics cards or even their H.265 encoder not working right out the box as being advertised- the bottom line is: the customers will get screwed.
Now if anybody is reading this that knows a modicum about editing, you immediately know how important it is to have Hardware-acceleration for Encoding and Decoding; especially now with H.265/HEVC compression which is very intricate than its predecessor- H.265/AVC compression.
Even if you have a X99 chipset with 6 cores/12 threads, you still won't be fast enough to have a clear/crisp picture with H.265 media files; so why would Cyberlink advertise PowerDvD 14 as having HEVC decoding-support yet not for hardware-acceleration???
Likewise with Encoding, if anybody is reading this that knows anything about editing, you will know how important hardware-acceleration is pertaining to encoding. When I first bought PowerDirector 13, I test it out with my Intel i7-4790K which is a beast yet it took me a hour to encode/render a 4 min 1080p video in HEVC compression. An hour just for a 4 min video! Cyberlink knows that customers who are interested in HEVC compression are going to want to shorten their rendering time as much as possible; so why would they put out PowerDirector 13 with HEVC support but without Hardware-acceleration???
Not to mention how PowerDirector 13's converter doesn't work well when convert 720p video from Windows Media Center (WTV format) into M2TS format.
But let me guess......In PowerDirector 14 this will be all addressed and taken care of.
The Tech Industry needs to go bankrupted.