Entered CNET Catalog: 03/20/2003
SKU: V0300054
Manufacturer: Microsoft Corp.
Manufacturer description
Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition delivers easy and exciting new ways to share your photos and enjoy your music and home movies. Easily create vibrant photo stories with your narration, music and photo effects. Transform your PC into a full-featured party jukebox with visual effects while protecting your personal information and restricting access to other applications. Copy your aging cassette tapes and vinyl records into clean, vibrant digital files using hiss and pop reduction, track splitting and more. With Plus! Digital Media Edition you can harness the power of Microsoft Windows XP to showcase and manage media on your PC and Pocket PC.User opinions
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3.5 stars
out of 5 user reviews
good and maybe average
Pros: best of all
Cons: nononononononono
Review: u shuld let peolple download it
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4.5 stars
out of 5 user reviews
Fun Software. Easy & Enjoyable
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Review: I like Plus! for the Movie Maker Enhancements, Photo Story, & most of all Sync & Go. Sync & Go puts lots of great media onto my Pocket PC that I can watch when & where I want; News, Music, Comedy, etc. Photo Story works great. Much easier than Movie Maker for slideshows, and some features that Movie Maker can't do. Dancers are fun. I don't care what you say, Ben can tear a rug! The only component I'm not crazy about is Partymode. It seems kinda useless to me.
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3.0 stars
out of 5 user reviews
A few nifty features, nothing essential.
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Review: I purchased this software because it was on sale at CompUSA for $4.95 -- would not have bought it for full price. There are a few nifty features that make it worth five bucks, but it's definitely nonessential software for any user...
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0.5 stars
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Who Needs It?
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Review: The ONLY useful program I've found in this latest Plus! was Picture Story. Sadly, XP (and ME) owners don't need Picture Story because Windows Movie Maker does the exact same thing, BETTER and for free (and can do video too). Movie Maker version 2 does even more (although only available for XP). The media player add-ons are marginally good. The dancers and alarm clock are fluff that rapidly lose their fun. The converters are OK, if you need to convert old vinyl to digital or, (and I don't know why), your MP3's to WMA. The CD-Label maker is comparable to those supplied by retail burner software (great for those using XP as their CD-R burner software). Requires activation, and usable on one computer only. XP only (thanks MS for continuing to shaft all those who invested in your ME a couple SHORT years ago).
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3.0 stars
out of 5 user reviews
Some cute tools but a resource hog
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Review: The Dancer module is very fun but takes almost 60% of the CPU most of the time. Photo Story is nifty to create slideshows with transitions and music
