On any video, you can easily tweak the brightness, hue and saturation through the player, so you get the perfect picture. The customizable player skins add some fun and personalization for the software. The player also has BD-Live support, which, through an internet connection, gives you access to additional special features not available on Blu-ray discs. You can let your friends know what you're watching at any time with the player's built-in social media function, sharing your opinion of the movie on sites like Twitter. It also has bit-perfect lossless audio playback, allowing you to use good quality headphones (opens in new tab) for private viewing or to connect to an external screen via HDMI cable without having to deal with degraded sound. Since the player software has Dolby and DTS support, you can enjoy high-quality audio along with your video.

It can even upscale the videos you watch on sites like YouTube and Vimeo, taking them from standard to high definition, or from 2D to 3D. The upscaling capacity allows you to convert standard-definition videos up to HD, as well as standard 2D movies up to 3D. Although, it should be noted that program that is lightest on your system resources is Leawo Blu-ray Player (opens in new tab) at just four percent on our test PC. The player runs effortlessly without monopolizing your computer's CPU capacity, averaging just 20 percent. This is convenient for movie marathons with friends.

You can even connect it to your computer's hard drive, an external hard drive, or your included PowerDVD-sourced cloud storage to create a playlist of videos you want to watch in one sitting. Additionally, you can rip audio off from the videos you watch, using the Video Scene Selector function. The player is also a great option for listening to audio files, such as WMA, MP3, FLAC and ALAC. Additionally, it quickly loads up to 4K playback for all kinds of digital video formats, including MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV and MKV.

It plays Blu-ray discs as well as standard and rewritable DVDs. You can watch your entire movie collection, whether it is physical or digital in format, on this player. The extensive Windows 10 integration allows the program to work on a compatible touchscreen, and it gives you large buttons that are easy to use for the operating system. It's an especially great video player option for Windows since it has no native media players. Though it’s not compatible with macOS, the software is fully available to Windows 10 users.

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