Amazon.com Product Description

DVD PictureShow 2 is a complete photo-sharing solution, letting you enhance photos, keep track of all your media, and use your CD or DVD burner to create slideshows that you can watch on your computer or TV. Create exciting multimedia slideshows using photos, video, music, narration, captions and customizable menu backgrounds. Keep track of all your photo, music, and video files with the award-winning Photo Explorer 8.0, included inside DVD PictureShow 2, and create virtual catalogs of all your image CDs. In addition to all this, DVD PictureShow 2 lets you turn slideshows to CD or DVD and watch them on your computer or from the comfort of your living room using your DVD player. ... Read more

Reviews (9)

Good for burning DVD's, not for VCD's ...
I bought this software mainly for burning DVD's, and not for VCD's on my CD writer. I did, however, burn a VCD Picture Show file onto a CD-R and when I played it on my computer, the pictures looked really bad. After reading the manual, I discovered that if you burn a VCD with transitions, the slideshow is written in very low resolution (352x240), as opposed to creating a slideshow with no transitions (704x480). One of the best features of this program (or any slideshow program) is the ablility to have really cool transitions from one picture to the next and with the VCD format, you really can't use them unless you like looking at a very degraded version of your original image.

On the other hand, the DVD burning part of the program is very good. The pictures look close to the original photos that you use, although not perfect. If you start out with very high quality images, you'll be very happy. However, the pictures seem to lose a little bit between viewing the originals on my computer screen and transferring and burning them to a Picture Show.

All in all, a very good program for burning DVD's but for creating VCD's, I would look elsewhere.

Not perfect but great for the price
This beats any CD-Writer Software that I have tried to make picture slideshows with(Nero and Roxio) The interface is well designed and easy to use. Simply drag and drop your photos. Give the slideshow a name. You then get to design your main DVD startup screen, I wish it had more templates for the main screen. There are some problems with adding audio, like a another reviewer stated, not big a problem.

I do recommend it.

THE BEST PRODUCT FOR A SLIDE SHOW ON YOUR TV!!!
I bought DVD PictureShow 2 after being extremely frustrated with Roxio DVD creator. I was trying to put a very large slideshow together for my daughter's wedding. It was a snap.

1. Easy ability to import a zillion digital images.

2. Then the program will fill your TV with each image, even if the sizes are not the same.

3. It is true, you have to build an audio track using a sound editor, if you want more than one song on the Slide Show. I used Audio Surgeon to match major theme changes to the music. For example, I wanted Song XX to start on slide number 225. At 3 seconds per slide, that occured at 675 seconds, or 11 minutes and 15 seconds into the slide show. With the sound editor I built a single .mp3 track to swap songs at 11 minutes and 15 seconds. The rub is "Will DVD PictureShow 2 be as accurate after 11 minutes of flipping 225 slides?" YES!!!! It was perfect!!

4. We did have problems playing a DVD in an older Toshiba DVD Player, but it has worked flawlessly in every other one we tried.

Compared to the other things I have tried, this product is world's ahead. Get it.

Hope this helps.

Works for me
I have used this program to make 10 different DVD's and it has worked great for me. I have no complaints. It's very simple to use. One thing that would be nice is the ability to put more than one audio track per slide show. I had to use an audio editor to splice together music tracks to to make the audio track long enough. Now, the program simply loops the same track. I really like the concept of viewing your pictures on TV, they are so big. The pictures look good too.

Cool thing to be able to do, but...
There are still some bugs, such as...
if you add music to your slideshows, you cannot manually go forwards or backwards while watching. You have to either wait until it finishes playing or hit the eject button because stop and pause do not work. Also, you can't have more than 2 pages on your main menu screen, if so, your dvd player won't recognize the cd you just made. I've tried this so many times, with different options selected. It got 2 stars because it was super easy to learn. Otherwise it would have been 0 stars. ... Read more