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06-02-2004, 07:41 PM
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Power DVD vs WMP
Noticed something odd recently on an old machine with Windows 98se. I test played a music cd with Windows Media Player and everyting sounded fine. Then I loaded Power DVD, and when I played the same music cd with the Power DVD program the quality of the sound was noticeably better. Tried the same test with the system in my sig and no noticeable difference. Anyone else have an older system running these two programs? Be interesting to see if others experience the same thing.
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06-03-2004, 10:11 AM
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PowerDVD (with it's own .dll's and codecs) will play most everything better than WMP.
I use it to test all my burns before burning, and it's got the most accurate screen reproduction as well. Comes with probably the best mpeg2 decoder there is. A great piece of software 
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06-03-2004, 10:23 AM
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Thanx, Jim! Guess my old ears are still working. I can't believe the difference in sound quality.
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06-03-2004, 04:03 PM
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I just tried them both. I heard absolutly no difference.
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06-03-2004, 04:25 PM
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06-03-2004, 04:45 PM
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True. For fun, I tried it on my video editing system, and heard no difference. On my kids machines, a huge difference.
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06-04-2004, 12:48 PM
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Great with Games too
I play a few games with Power DVD on and it makes a huge difference in highlighting game sound effects, along with any background music playing. I have to turn my speakers DOWN because it amplifies and enhances so well.
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06-05-2004, 04:06 AM
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I use PowerDVD because it makes a bit of difference on my system
I'm the opposite of Ron though, I have to crank up the volume a bit more for some reason |
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