Compared to PowerDVD 12 Ultra, the library used is much more resource-efficient and no longer interferes in operation now. Although the initial setting up of the library takes some time (200+ movies, 10,000 songs and 20k RAW and JPEG photos), but after that everything is immediately visible in the background and seems hardly to cause system load. Unfortunately, the recognition rate is in the video covers not so sparkling, luckily you can easily integrate your own cover to the movies and does not rely on automatic detection.
At the user interface CyberLink has also done a lot, so the program will now appear a little more modern and tidy. As a real practical proves the possibility unused functions from the UI hide (I do, for example, Facebook and YouTube and 3D, which I do not use), these functions are hidden and then not "interfere".
Since I have a lot of RAW photos of my Canon 60D on my NAS I need a fast player who can see these images also, this is going now with PowerDVD 13 swift as an arrow, hardly the image in Explorer double-clicked and already shows it PowerDVD 13 on - Top!
But now a few words to a showcase discipline, playing Blu-Rays and movies. As has been improved again CyberLink what is going to improve!
First, I have to disagree with one of the previous speakers, with me playing PowerDVD 13 (so far) all the movies without problems from (with me Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter). For BD, you can now also the CyberLink own Upscale and improvement functions (called "True Theater") - I have to say it's amazing what you can pick out from a BD still so. The colors appear to the TrueTheater more lively and fresh as if you had taken a towel from the screen - that's really impressive. 3D I do not use, so on the subject, I can not say much.
Thanks to the new media library is watching MKVs or other films in file form now also improved again. So I can finally resume the playback of a movie at the last left off, one thing the PowerDVD now (finally) also can. If you have films with sub Titlen, so it is with the new version now also possible to set the subtitle color, position and font itself - very convenient if you can move in the Letterboxbereich eg subtitles.