Arcsoft TMT 3 Platinum (return of the trial)

[rdodolak]

Just a heads up for those that have missed the announcement. Over at the Arcsoft forums Jason mentioned that TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum will be released sometime between now and Monday morning. The trial version will also return with the introduction of TMT3.

TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum

http://www.arcsoft.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1919

Originally Posted by Arcsoft_Jason

Whee. It's real this time.

Files will be going live between now and Monday evening PDT--probably close to the latter but we'll see how things are progressing by the end of the day...

Trial will be available again with one fairly major limitation you aren't used to. No trial on Dolby codecs so you get no audio on such discs. Bummer, but that's Dolby's choice and we could not convince them otherwise.

Xonar HDAV works. You'll be able to test it for yourself on DTS-HD MA. There's some hassle in switching disc formats not unlike in the ASUS version. Known issue. Regarding updates, we'll be updating the core code on our schedule so you'll see an improvement there. Updates to the custom bitstreaming code could potentially (the details are sketchy here at this time) still wait for full approval from ASUS and not migrate into our version until after ASUS releases them in theirs. Some may consider that a mixed bag--so consider that in your decision.

HD-DVD support should be identical to TMT2.

Win7 works. I've seen no issues at all here in limited testing.

Vista64 is supported.

XP64 remains on our "Sorry, not in the cards" list.

Compatability with TMT2 on the same system should be fixed. This was a last minute change and I haven't had a chance yet to verify it. But you should be able to test TMT3 without uninstalling TMT2, and if you hate TMT3, TMT2 will not be affected.

[rdodolak]

TMT 3 is now live. It appears there are now three versions: Standard, Gold, and Platinum editions. The standard and platinum editions are currently available for order.

Feature Comparison

TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum (Blu-ray support)
TotalMedia Theatre 3 Gold
TotalMedia Theatre 3 Standard

Link to Trial version

[banyaker]

As a dissatisfied owner of PDVD9 (i say dissatisfied ,cause it wont play BD Audio discs) i wish to try before i buy with TMT3 ,followed the link you posted ,no trial there!is it to come later?

[banyaker]

the 'Try now ' just leads to 'Buy Now'
watch this space i suppose!!!!!

[rdodolak]

It was up last night as I was able to download a copy. I'll try posting that file online so that you can download the trial.

EDIT: I browsed through my browser history and found the direct link. I just checked this link and it still works.

http://arcsoft.s3.amazonaws.com/down...l_tbyb_all.exe

[dadkins]

Looking good rdodolak!
Thanks for the tbyb link!

BD-Live seems... peppy!





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