How would you feel realizing that your brand-new, almighty PC that comes with everything and a free mouse pad cannot play a DVD movie right out of the box? It happened to me just a week after I bought a brand new Windows Vista-powered PC when I tried to put a rented DVD into the computer's DVD drive, only to get an error message.

What? My brand new, dual-core, DirectX 10 PC with over half a gig on-board video memory cannot play a DVD that my two year old notebook has no problem with? There must be something wrong, I thought, and I clicked the 'Web Help' button. After reading several pages of amazingly irrelevant information, I finally found a small link that suggested I don't have a DVD Decoder installed. I was offered the option to pay $159 to upgrade my version of Windows to one that could play DVDs, or to pay $15 (the cheapest option) to buy DVD player software that would essentially do the same - enable my computer to play DVDs.

If it wasn't that it was only last week that I paid a grand and a half for that new computer with that new version of Windows, I would probably have parted with my hard-earned $15 to 'enable instant DVD playback' or get 'the kind of outstanding performance' offered by the marketers of Microsoft's suggested products. But not at that moment! I still had a fifteen hundred dollar hole in my budget, and did not want to spend any extra money on, well, extras. So I started searching for a free product that could play DVDs on my system no matter what.

And finally, I found it - a free product that could play a DVD and not infect my computer with bugs and spyware!

Meet AVS DVD Player by AVS Media, (http://www.avsmedia.com/), absolutely free software that plays DVDs, CDs, MP3s and DiVX if you're into that! I could finally watch that rented movie, and I also experimented with the features offered by this wonderful product. It allows taking snapshots during the movie, as well as capturing a DVD into a single, compressed video file. I am not into that DiVX mania of today's Internet crowd, but if you are, full support is there!

After spending some time with AVS DVD Player, I learned to love it even more. It could play all my DVD movies, even those foreign PAL ones that my stand-alone DVD player always struggled with. It never displayed a movie in a stretched or distorted way, an unfortunate feature of my old notebook. And I had a choice of several skins to pick from (I preferred the Mini look by the way).

And, the sound! Those who used Media Player for watching DVDs won't believe a DVD player can make any difference in this department. Well, AVS DVD Player certainly does! It supports multi-channel and true surround sound, making it easy to get immersed in the movie with just two speakers and a subwoofer.

AVS DVD Player is much more than just a free player. It performs on par and better than its counterparts-payware, while its zero price tag beats both: expensive and cheaper DVD-playback tools. Grab your copy now while it lasts at: http://www.avsmedia.com/DVDPlayer/