TotalMedia Theater gets BD Live "Certified"

Just over a month ago Cyberlink was the first to announce its product would support BD Live and today ArcSoft claims it's the first to be "certified." Unfortunately, ArcSoft failed to mention exactly when this free update would be available, so for now if you can't go without the current unimpressive features already available on select discs, PowerDVD is the only game in town. Regardless, the Blu-ray playback software market is really heating up, and although none of them offer a full featured player yet, with BD Live checked off the list that only leaves the highest quality lossless audio support.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 28th 2008 2:51PM]

Isn't the important thing to note here that this includes BRD and HDDVD, which is quite important for most users since the most popular drives for HTPC's are hybrid drives?

[(Unverified) Posted May 18th 2008 6:41PM]

Yes, I agree with the other comment. PowerDVD DROPPED the ball on HD DVD support with their cyberlink powerdvd 8 ultra version. At least Arcsoft TotalMedia Extreme is supporting the HD DVD format with their newest version. Thumbs up for Arcsoft. Plus it is less $$$ than the Cyberlink offering. I have experimented with it and with it's latest update (you have to do the update after downloading and installing it), there is HD DVD support and ATI support for XP users also now. I'm still having issues with flickering, but at least it is recognizing the HD DVDs and playing. I may have too slow of a cpu with the Athlon X2 3800+, which is not on their list of recommended CPUs.