10 years ago that was a big deal - today there are more ways to share your pictures than I could hope to count. The *only* advantage video DVD's have is that they'll work in every DVD player. You can use Blu-Ray on DVD, use a TV or player with network capability, use one of the many hardware media players, you might be able to connect the cell or tablet you have already & use that for a media player and so on. The electronics in a Blu-Ray or up-scaling DVD player may make your pictures look pretty good, but imagine how much better they'd look if you didn't throw away most of that original quality. Now that's not intended to insult anyone who likes to watch slideshows on video DVDs - just saying that if you're going to go to the bother, rather than using whatever player to display a folder full of images, you might as well use a format that preserves more of the original quality. It's all right for video where each field is only on-screen for 1/60 second, but for static images, frankly the screen on your cell phone likely does as good, often better. Worse, the DVD spec calls for interlaced video, & if a DVD rather than Blu-Ray player is used, so no HDMI, signal loss cuts the resolution further. Why you shouldn't put slideshows on a video DVD.Īt least in the US & Canada where you can only buy HDTVs for the last several years, you probably don't want to create DVD slideshows - the image resolution is decades old, the same or lower than the 1st common, cheap digital cameras. Either that, or forget all about it and simply stick to the conversion and editing stuff at which you're actually quite good, and which have long impressed many a GOTDer, including myself. Wondershare: seriously, you really are going to have to get your act together with this DVD Slideshow stuff. GOTDers could, of course, just fork out money in advance for it, but somehow I get the impression that most people here aren't that stupid. It would be a shame if any other GOTDer wasted similar time on DLing and installing it only to then have to resort to an immediate uninstall because the software is unusable. The DeLuxe trial download and install has therefore been a waste of time and hard drive space. and it's proved impossible to launch it: "number of days left: 0". I'd sincerely hope not: offering zero-day trial versions is a serious breach of trust and a massive inconvenience to aspirant users a software developer would have to be pretty desperate indeed to zero-day a trial in hope of getting folks to pay for a program before they can actually test it.īut in view of my colleague's experience of this DVD Slideshow Builder DeLuxe trial version, I've just DL'd and installed it. Whether this has something to do with today's GOTD offer and the Wondershare upsell, I don't know. Because the trial period is exactly 0 days. Sadly, Wondershare's apparent ineptitude - which really ought to worry this developer - continues apace: go to the website, as colleague of mine has just done, to check out the DeLuxe version before doing anything else, download and install the trial version. Re sragan, at post #7: The heads-up re the Wondershare offer on its premium-price product is appreciated, but as with any software, GOTD users are strongly advised NOT to fork out money for it until they have DL'd, installed, and tested it.
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