Corel's WinDVD 8 lands DTS-HD Master Audio certification
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 5th 2008 9:00PM
posted Jun 5th 2008 9:00PM
Sure, WinDVD 9 supported those fancy audio codecs right out of the shrink-wrap, but up until now, WinDVD 8 users have been shut out solid. Thankfully, Corel finally saw fit to pass down a little love to its loyal end users still rockin' the ocho, as said software picked up DTS-HD Master Audio certification over at Computex. As you very well know, this now enables the application to play back Blu-ray Discs with 7.1 discrete channels of lossless audio, which surely makes the audiophiles in attendance remarkably jovial.
Take note, Cyberlink.
Great, now where are all the soundcards besides Asus upcoming one that can handle such format output? One of those chicken before the egg thingy. Useless.
What sort of CPU power do you need to run these blu ray / HD DVD playback apps?
CPU doesnt need to be anything to grand..as long as it passes the limits emposed by the playback app is all good. Most decent vid cards now support hardwre acceleration for all HD video codecs. So a lowend CPU coupled with a decent vid card that supports HW accelleration and you are all good.
Does WinDVD 9 support HD-DVD?I heard PowerDVD 8 REMOVED support. I have numerous Blu-rays and HD DVDs and would only pick up WinDVD 9 if it supported both.
WinDVD9 supports both HD DVD and Blu-ray.