You have to have a specific mainboard out of a very short list of supported ones.

It is also NOT enough to have a Kaby Lake processor or higher with the appropriate Intel GPU. This makes it all the more important, that there are tools to circumvent the protection. The protection requirements for UHD playback are sick and disgusting, the people who put those specifications up are not the best businessmen. (don't know if it came across, but personally, I'm really pissed off with how they are treating their Ultra-HD customers - work-wise, it's a blessing). The 'legal' way is a dead end, it just doesn't work right.Īlso, thanks to the insane restrictions, no other company bothers to produce a UHD player for PCs which leaves a monopoly with Cyberlink having no need to be better than the competition. The only way to decently watch UHD discs on a PC atm is to use AnyDVD and some software player other than PowerDVD to watch the stuff with protection removed. I know from our test rig, that one day it performed fine, the next day - no change at all - it gave out the same error you're getting (01002). Usually not even with as much as a hint telling you where to look and fix it. ), that a single little glitch brings the whole thing tumbling down. There are so many elements involved (GPU, mainboard, CPU, internet connection, drive. In other words, this software is a one-of-a-kind multimedia player which provides the best playback quality possible today.Click to expand.PowerDVD's UHD playback, or rather the 'protected hardware support' is very buggy. CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra 18 is an advanced media player which also features TrueTheater video and Surround sound plus HD playback, SD to 1080p HD upscaling and more.

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