Blaze DVD Player 5.1

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

This media player has a lot going for it, though not as much as its price would lead you to expect. Blaze DVD Player supports a variety of media formats besides DVD, including CD audio, MP3, QuickTime, and RealMedia. It offers a good variety of features, such as scene bookmarking and the ability to automatically resume playing from the place you left off watching. You also can make screenshots or even record a movie into the MPEG format (the picture quality was all right in our tests). If you need to make out fine details, you can zoom in on any area of the screen. But oddly, while the program supports parental controls, it offers only basic audio and video settings, such as color adjustments and a choice of sound schemes. The interface, on the other hand, is clear and handy. Cost is an issue, though. At the same $50 price point, WinDVD Platinum and get more video and audio options. Blaze DVD Player works well enough; its competitors just deliver a bit more for the money.

Publisher's description

From BlazeVideo :

BlazeDVD is a full-featured and easy to use DVD, Video CD, Audio-CD and media file player. It is stable, simple and superior in quality and can meet all demand on DVD playing. In addition to the common features of a home DVD player, BlazeDVD can provide superior video and audio (Dolby) quality, together with other enhanced functions: record DVD, optional skins, playback image and DV, image capture and bookmark. Furthermore, it supports DIVX, MPEG4, RM, QuickTime, WMV, WMV-HD, MacroMedia Flash and popular media formats of Internet. You can enjoy watching DVD in your notebook PC during travel, or use DVD as a tool to assist your child with study on a computer, or watch DVD movies in a desktop computer.

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