Sorry I'll pass on this have to date not been able to get a bug free app from this company and probably never will ;)

"Dimo 8K Player 4.2"

This program installs normal.
Registering also fast and quick.
A MP4 of 1920 played good, but a UHD of 3840 played very badly, cracking sound and slow picture, even on 1000% speed.
Without asking or saying it becomes the default player in Windows.
But more important: how do you control this program?
Most player can go a step/scene forward or backward. How can this be done in this program?
And where are the instructions?
Developer: please make a handout for this.
And are there any Setting, such as the default map for GIF, recording, snaps?
Very nice the program can make a GIF of 30sec., but it not easy to pick the right scene.
The last I did was recording and viewing the result. Afterwards I could not return to the normal screen.
Also I could not end the session of Windows in a normal way.
I did have to use the power-button(4 sec.).

Does anyone know how or where the Registration Key gets entered?

Nowhere on Dimo's site or in the program is there even the slightest clue. I have never encountered a software program before that was as poorly designed as this.

Thank you to anyone that can help!!!

UltraHD (4K) playback *ONLY* works on Windows 10, and *ONLY* works if you have a latest-generation Intel (7th generation, "Kaby Lake") CPU.

So I will pass on this as I have no interest in Blue-ray or 4K and my laptop is a quite fast i3.

Their website states "Dimo Software, Inc. specializes in multimedia software and helps more than 30 000 000 great users all over the world to have a much easier and better digital life!"

Based upon the continued under performing of their offerings I can only guess that nearly all of them were use of trials because there is no way that anybody would want to use their products based upon the quality of the competition alone.

And you only have to look at the comments on here every time there is a Giveaway to see why.

Clearly the company is not interested in listening and I see no value to this site to keep promoting them until they address the continuing issues.

Love GOTD site. I used this site for years to test out apps. This is my first review. This particular media player (Dimo 8K Player 4.2) has some pros and cons. Its a good very "Basic" player for BluRays. I was able to play the main BD movie fine, but couldn't figure out how to play the menus & extras & such. There is no equalizer option to adjust audio. Daum's "PotPlayer" is much better for non BD files. "PotPlayer" is totally free & they offer a 32 bit & 64bit version here: https://potplayer.daum.net/. It has lots of "bells and whistles" to adjust audio, video & tons of other things. If you like to "tweak" your viewing experience, Potplayer is for you. Unfortunately, Potplayer does not have BD support. I placed the Dimo player onto my HP Envy laptop with Beats audio with a BD drive & it works great. Good quality picture and sound. If you just want a basic player to play Blu-rays, get this software. If you want the "full experience" get PotPlayer.

Where do you input the serial number - and why not part of a pull-down menu?

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The "8K" in the name is just a teaser to claim that they were a market leader, most screens are below 3K, see [ https://en . wikipedia . org/wiki/List_of_common_resolutions ] for comparisons.

Note that their 8K player "standard" won't even play disks, not even 4K Blu-ray, and it is FREE anyway, no giveaway required ... so what's special about today's giveaway?

After installation, I see Blu-ray and DVD in the menu ( "menu" = click the arrow-in-a-box ), but there is no [ Help ], [ About ] to confirm which version is in today's giveaway -- Pro or not?

I also see "Open URL", and that's only in the Pro version, so I guess today's giveaway is the $70, no, $46, no $16 'Pro' version.

GOOD THING: It's nice that it can take a JPEG of any on screen image, though it's hard to move frame by frame to select which frame to "snap".

That's the ONLY good thing I could find.

It can me maximized and tap [ F11 ] to hide non-video content ( hide Windows and program controls ).

Very jittery, can't handle video smoothly ( see test video details below * ).

It's the other capabilities of any video player that may or not be useful and competitive, compared especially to FREE VLC and Classic Media Player and others, such as
-- automatic subtitle download,
-- expansion to full screen,
-- expansion of any video, especially letterbox to touch the screen edge,
-- fine speed adjustments,
-- ability to sync and resync subtitles,
-- frame-to-frame smoothing,
-- sound leveling,
-- peak limiting,
-- dynamic range expansion for image and sound,
-- noise reduction,
-- multi-speaker discrimination,
-- synthesis of back channels from stereo,
-- ability to capture video,
-- ability to convert video,
-- ability to save video, sound, and subtitles together as one new file in any format,
... and so on.

I'm curious about what matters to each of us, and what player we each have found that makes us most happy?

I want:
-- a video to maintain aspect ratio,
-- to the software to intelligently offer corrections to an errant aspect ratio,
-- sound leveling,
-- subtitles,
-- auto subtitle download and aids to sync subtitles,
-- re-saving subtitles together with the video and audio into a new file,
... though I'm finding subtitles at specialized web sites, and I always rip video discs with subtitles in the frame,
-- I like fine speed adjustments,
... and I can use a separate video enhancer to make a flat movie more dynamic,
-- but controls during playback that are remembered for each video would help,
... I have also tuned my display to be a neutral as possible, and so any adjustment to a video for my display would hardly transfer to another display.

For me, FREE VLC from [ VideoLAN .org ] is hard to beat, and I use FREE Classic Media Player from [ CoDecGuide . com ] next most often.

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MediaDimo Dimo Studio 8K Player was Jittery on a test video from YouTube that other players perform flawlessly.

Using an old 2260 MHz x 2, Win 7-64, 4 GB 388 MHz ram, Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Display Chipset, 1,680 x 1,050 display.

Here's the test video information, just so you know.

-- jittery in 8K player,
-- smooth in FREE Media Player Classic, smooth in FREE VLC, smooth even in FREE IrfanView, for criminy's sake!:

Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/mp41)
File size : 187 MiB
Duration : 4 min 33 s
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 5 747 kb/s
Writing application : Lavf57.20.100

Video
ID : 1
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L1
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : mp4v-20
Duration : 4 min 33 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 5 584 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.108
Stream size : 182 MiB (97%)
Writing library : Lavc57.17.100
Language : English

Audio
ID : 2
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Format settings : Joint stereo / MS Stereo
Codec ID : mp4a-6B
Duration : 4 min 33 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 160 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 5.21 MiB (3%)
Writing library : LAME3.99.5
Language : English
Default : Yes
Alternate group : 1

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...'almost' all kinds of videos
...'could' play

they don't even sound confident of their own software themselves...

another joke right ?

"Dimo 8K Player 4.2"

This program installs normal.
Registering also fast and quick.
A MP4 of 1920 played good, but a UHD of 3840 played very badly, cracking sound and slow picture, even on 1000% speed.
Without asking or saying it becomes the default player in Windows.
But more important: how do you control this program?
Most player can go a step/scene forward or backward. How can this be done in this program?
And where are the instructions?
Developer: please make a handout for this.
And are there any Setting, such as the default map for GIF, recording, snaps?
Very nice the program can make a GIF of 30sec., but it not easy to pick the right scene.
The last I did was recording and viewing the result. Afterwards I could not return to the normal screen.
Also I could not end the session of Windows in a normal way.
I did have to use the power-button(4 sec.).

Like most, if I see a >67% negative vote I'll pass. However, I did spend a little time with this because as a contrarian I was intrigued by the near unanimous negative commentary. This is what I discovered.

What I liked
* It played some .iso and vob files that I normally have difficulty with.
* It played iso mounted blue rays when VLC would not.
* Clarity was exceptional but only on my i4790 chip. Perhaps, it was too much to ask for stutter free playback on my old Duo E8400.
* Blu-Rays often cause playback problems so I like to have a backup program that can do the job.

What I didn't like
* Sophos a/v premium flagged it as having the trojan virus "Lockdown". Could be a false positive but perhaps the developers could comment, clarify, or refute.
* Minor bug in sub-title playback.
* Other minor bugs such as ability to Fast Forward.

Bottom Line:
I'm going to archive a Reflect image with the program until the "lockdown" concern is resolved.

Too buggy, it did play a Blu-ray disc, but not from the beginning, after I minimized it and maximized it again the video disappeared only the sound played, so I closed the program, but it did not close, the sound kept playing! I had to restart the PC to stop it because it was not even in the task manager. Confusing interface.

VLC multi plateform (Win Mac linux) price 0$ (également 0€)

Amazing lack of controllability in this program. Once placed into full screen, only Task Manager can get it out and turn it off. There is no area to input the registration code. The control, while still available is very simplistic. This may play all colors of the rainbow, but its useability is beige. Uninstalled and all reference to it removed from computer.

8k is easy.... just put two 4k monitors or tvs together... you now have 8k wide by 2k tall.... you can make 16k and connect four 4k monitors together..... it just means pixel count plain and simple.

what do you "play" on that(in videos that is................... idk.

All software from Dimo eventually tells me that my license has been banned after one or two months. Don't know why. Wrote to them and they did not understand.

installed, activated, entry point not found error on launching, un-installed by reboot (toolwiz timefreeze used)

Although this developer's pioneering work in 8K technology has hitherto escaped my attention, it's evidently a fact that the Dimo 8K Player has considerably evolved from version 1.0 to 4.2. As such, it's absolutely ideal software for all those with an $11,500 (at time of writing) 8-foot wide desktop monitor connected to a PC incorporating Super Hi-Vision hardware for the management of 7680x4320 resolution video that for some unfathomable reason seems not to be available to me from any distributor or stockist that I know of.

I can only conclude that today's giveaway is aimed at GOTDers more fortunate than me in that they already have $30,000 televisions in the extensions they have purpose-built to their existing homes and through which they view 8K programming as well as their own 8K video collections. On which basis, I'll leave it to them to post their own Dimo 8K Player 4.2 reviews, all of which, I promise, will be read with considerable interest. Thanks then, Dimo and GOTD, but I'm sadly unable to take advantage of today's generosity.