The DVD format is now unavoidable when it comes to watching videos; it would be unthinkable to turn back to the old school VHS format. With improved video and audio quality and many bonuses included on blockbuster DVDs, this format has become a new standard. The Taiwanese software developer, Cyberlink, has quickly understood this and has proposed to us for several years the well known product PowerDVD. PowerDVD is software that playbacks DVDs on computers that are equipped with a DVD-Rom drive. With today’s powerful computers, hardware DVD decoders are totally useless and software like PowerDVD is definitely the ideal solution to watch DVDs on your PC. So we will find out if the new version 4.0 of PowerDVD, dubbed ‘PowerDVD XP’ consistently improves the comfort of watching DVD movies on your computer.