ARCSOFT TOTALMEDIA THEATRE 5 SUPPORT SOFTWARE
ARCSOFT TOTALMEDIA THEATRE 5 SUPPORT PC

We found it difficult to describe the level of 7MC integration provided with TMT5 in words, so the video below was created to let you experience it with us.

TMT5 has attempted to rectify the situation and has largely succeeded. While the BD players have improved over the years in their attempts at providing a more integrated playback experience, none have ever provided what could be considered a native experience. When it comes to BD playback in a Windows 7 Media Center (7MC) environment, the platform requires a third-party player such as TMT5. I know it is a small thing, but after going through the effort of setting my AutoPlay handlers it is really nice that after installing TMT5 it does not need to be done again. Before taking a more detailed look at the different experiences I would like to highlight one thing that ArcSoft does correctly from the end-user’s perspective. Additionally, we tested as many graphics processing units (GPU) as we could to ensure that we would covered the majority of the user community.Ĭompared to TMT3 and PDVD10 the overall user experience found in TMT5 is a welcome improvement both in the standalone player and even more notably in the Windows 7 Media Center integrated version.

ARCSOFT TOTALMEDIA THEATRE 5 SUPPORT SOFTWARE

What makes this approach especially interesting is that we all have a different mix of software and hardware in our home theaters and they are split evenly when it comes to the players of choice between the earlier version of TMT and Cyberlink’s PowerDVD 10 (PDVD).īreaking it down, the home theater environments tested included two HDMI 1.4 3D-capable plasma displays, two HDMI 1.3 LCD/plasma displays, two HDMI 1.3 enabled audio video receiver (AVR), a discrete 5.1 analog enabled AVR and stereo output via the display’s built in speakers. To help account for that, and the general difficultly of adequately testing all the different platforms, we are doing this review as a collaboration between the editors at MissingRemote.

ARCSOFT TOTALMEDIA THEATRE 5 SUPPORT PC

It is not that often that we get a chance to take an early look at the next generation of Blu-ray (BD) playback software for the home theater PC (HTPC) so when ArcSoft offered us the chance to review TotalMedia Theatre 5 ( TMT5) we could not say no, even though the timeline was very aggressive.

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