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- Price: Free to try (Some features disabled); $35.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: January 13, 2006
- Total Downloads: 524,969
- Downloads last week: 963
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 21 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This DVD-player software provides adequate playback controls, some interesting skins, and screen-capture capability, but it doesn't really beat the competition. Due to some translation difficulties, the installation is a bit mysterious. We went with the defaults and everything worked fine. The default skin is sleek and includes a button that lets you cycle through all the skins available, although we don't consider skin support all that important for this type of software. Hero DVD Player includes a number of features for fine-tuning picture and audio quality, and makes many of them easily accessible on the interface, including the luminance and chrominance slider controls--and you can get lost in all the options in the configuration menus. We liked that the program lets you take screen grabs from video. By default, the running time displays in the upper-right corner of the video, but it can easily be turned off. Unlike some other DVD players, Hero's fast-forwarding mutes audio. Also, we found no menu button in the interface, a serious oversight. More technical videophiles will like the range of control Hero gives you over how video displays, but many of the program's features will be lost on casual users.Publisher's description
From Century Herosoft Computer Technology :Hero DVD player is a full-featured DVDs, CDs, and media file player. And it offers high-quality video, audio playback, and creates a home theater on your PC. Furthermore, it supports multiple popular formats media files like AVI, MPEG, RM, MP3, WMV, or Flash of Internet. Other powerful features such as optional skins, image capture, crash disk correcting, background playing, caption processing, broken playing, local-zoom and bookmark.
Version 3.0.8 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.4 stars out of 21 votes
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Version: Hero DVD Player 3.0.8
Pros: This program works like a charm. No matter how your DVD disc is scratch, it can read and give a good display quality.
Cons: The converter does not allow to select subtitle & langs.
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Hero DVD Player 3.0.8
Cons: This program contains a malicious trogan horse. My microsoft anti-spy ware program detected this. Do not download.
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Hero DVD Player 3.0.8
"Microsoft spyware detected a serious trojan called HRC Trojan to Hero DVD."
Cons: Beijing company has authored a serious trojan horse to accompany Hero DVD. I ran my Microsoft Spyware software and it can up with HRC Trojan. I removed the trojan and uninstalled Hero DVD.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Hero DVD Player 3.0.8
Pros: Easy install.
Cons: Video and audio playback was fuzzy! I deleted this right away in favor of AVS player.
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Version: Hero DVD Player 3.0.8
Pros: tried to use but doesn't work
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