Play it fast. Play it safe. Play it anywhere.
The past two releases have focused on improving your ability to quickly find and download the content you want to play. With this release, the Vuze team concentrated on improving the ways you play your content – on your PC and Mac, on the other screens in your life (now including the iPad and Connected TVs), and simply by burning a DVD.
More specifically, Vuze 4.4 includes a significant upgrade to both the Vuze HD Player and Device Playback. In addition, we spent some time building three of your most requested features – DVD burning, built-in antivirus protection, and better search – as part of a new offering called Vuze Plus. Intrigued? Read on.
With today’s release, the Vuze HD Player received a significant update, including:
• Higher quality playback: Smoother playback for HD content (including 1080p)
• More formats: Improved format support (including avi, wmv, mpeg, xvid, Quicktime, and more)
• Subtitles: A very cool integration with OpenSubtitles enabling you to pull in subtitles for any content and language the OpenSubtitle community has translated
• Faster and Lighter: Significantly faster launch and lighter weight playback.
Props to both the MPlayer and OpenSubtitle.org teams for enabling us to stand on the shoulders of the giant that is open source!
Speaking of improved playback, we’ve also updated Vuze Device Playback to significantly improve the quality and speed of device transfers.
Since Vuze launched device support, more than 3 million of you have used Vuze Devices to transfer and playback more than 70 million items on your iPhone, iPod, Xbox, PS3, PSP, and Tivo. You seem to like the ability to drag-and-drop to play back on the device of your choice…
Aside from your rave reviews, we’ve also been listening to your requests to improve device transfer speeds and decrease the failure rates when files don’t successfully transfer to the device of your choice. This release updates the core infrastructure for Vuze Devices to significantly improve device transfer performance — both speed and success rates.
And one more thing on the device playback front… Vuze now supports transfer and playback on iPad and Connected TVs (with DLNA support).
Introducing Vuze Plus
Beyond improving Vuze’s core features enabling you to find, download, and play, we’ve also heard your requests for a variety of new features. Today, we’re launching a premium version called Vuze Plus that includes DVD Burn, Built-in Antivirus, and Power Search.
Finally, we have an answer for all your questions about how to burn DVDs from Vuze. We’re not talking about crude data DVDs for storage and transport. We’re talking about easily burning playable DVDs for playback on any standard DVD player. Simply drag-and-drop videos from your Vuze Library or anywhere on your desktop, organize your playlist, and click burn.
Downloading from the web can be intimidating. We’ve heard your worries about malware, viruses, and scams. To address your concerns, we’ve teamed with BitDefender to deliver a fully built-in antivirus solution that scans all the files you download with Vuze Plus to proactively protect you before problems occur.
Finally, we consistently hear that you want additional sites added to Vuze Meta Search. Power Search includes twice as many search sites to offer more comprehensive results so you quickly find what you’re looking for.
The new Vuze HD Player and Device Playback features are immediately available in Vuze 4.4 (our flagship app that’s free as always). For those of you that want a little extra spice, DVD Burning, Built-in Antivirus, and Power Search will be offered as Vuze Plus for $24.99. Offering Vuze Plus will enable us to build some of the extra features many of you have been requesting, without adding bloat to the main Vuze app you know and love. In addition, charging a nominal fee for Vuze Plus will enable us to work with leading partners like BitDefender to offer some of the cool features you’ve been requesting.
Let us know what you think!
Chris
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You Guys Rock My World..Thank You
Phenomenal update thanks Vuze team much appreciated!
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by far the most supreme torrent client and now even more… these awesome updates liberate us from using 100 different converters etc. Thanks!
Any chance of the Wii getting into the device list?
You guys have done a brillant job over the couple of years I have been involved with you and the last one is so much better than the days it took before.Many Thanks AW.AT 65yrs.
Just downloaded the new 4.4 version on my Macbook Pro running 10.5.8.
It crashes on launch consistently.
How do I go back to 4.3.n.n?
Vuze Plus sure is great for movies and music. But what about documentaries? Recently I tried to download a documentary (137GBs) but my computer told me I didn’t have enough space on my hard drive. Is there anyway to open a big omnibus documentary so that one can download only what one is interested in? (Hard to please).–rchcarter@sympatico.ca
Nothing about files and folders to sort out and organize my 1000′s of movies?! Still one HUGE list to scroll through and search? C’mon….
vuze really gets thing going and doing… suprisingly its neat and tidy all the way ..
thanks vuze team.
Question: Was using Tvdome and decided to purchase ??? so I could download my favourite tv shows and burn to discs, … purchased a two year subscription to ??? and this is the site they gave me to download from.. after accepting my money.. which I see is supposibly Free… and now I am being asked to donate to Vuse and pay for upgrades??? any help out there??
Thanks
Hi Robin,
The Vuze team has recently received reports of unaffiliated web sites charging people for “unlimited movie” services, but then simply re-directing them to download the free version of our software. Some do this under the guise that all they are really selling is “links to freeware…, technical support and tutorials,” rather than the software itself. Regardless, our basic Vuze software is free and you should never have to pay for it.
We can assure you that we are actively investigating such companies, and doing what we can to shut them down. This is no easy task. In the meantime, your best recourse is to:
1) contact your credit card company and request that they cancel the charge;
2) make sure you always go to http://www.Vuze.com to download our software.
We will continue to make every attempt to eliminate misleading offers made in our name.
Thanks for being a part of the Vuze community,
The Vuze team
To Troy: The wii currently doesnt have the required software, to be able to view these on the wii you would need to have hacked your wii 1st (as this is illegal, vuze can’t put wii on device list)
To roger: If there is not enough space on your hard drive consider getting a portable one, or if the file is in parts, download each file seperatly and if you want to have more of those files use an archiver to reduce space used
To waikoah: Open the location where the files are stored, use explorer’s built in search
Hope tht helps u lot
Contact me at ‘gazza-911@hotmail.co.uk’ if you need any more help and ill see if i cn help u out
Will be possible,have information in Italian?Thank You!
thank’s vuze>>>
I loved. thanks
What? ? ? Why ? ? ?
Thanks for the Vuze upgrade. I tried to Burn a DVD with (DVD Burn) but my Norton Anti Virus deemed it suspious and prevented it for burning.
Hi:
I’ve emailed in the past but have not received a reply. I would like to donate to your organization but will not donate on line (prior bad experiences doing this). If you have a post office box or site address I’d appreciate it being sent to my email address. Please identify yourself in the email heading since I delete unknown mail without opening it…..thanks for a useful and enjoyable product and service.
I haven’t upgraded yet most likely tonight. But finding Vuze about 8 months ago was a real blessing. Thank You, Thank you, and Thank you too.
I don’t want HD player how do I uninstall it
To Stefano Degni(/any others wanting to change the language): 1. Open the Options tab
* Windows
– Go to the Advanced section of Vuze (View > Advanced)
– Press Ctrl + the comma key (,) or select [ Tools (4th menu) > Options (last item) ]
* Mac
Press Ctrl + the comma key (,) or select (Vuze menu > Preferences)
2. Double click on Interface (5th item)
3. Click on Language (1st subitem)
4. Select your Language
To Ben Janssen: If your anti-virus software is stopping you, consider opening it up and allowing any application/process that is related to Vuze, or if this doesnt work disable the anti-virus during the process of dvd burning
Hope ive helped ppl agen
Da qualche mese ho Vuze ,complimenti a tutti e buon lavoro.Ottime le prestazioni,sono un appassionato di film,el’unico neo che ho trovato come in altri simili,che non e’ segnalata la lingua,scaricando aime’in lingua straniera o con sottotitoli o con sonoro roboante da cinema.Se potete studiare qualche accorgimento che ne segnali,la presenza.ciao bravi a tutti,e buon lavoro.
Thanks For The Warning Larry Lowe Before I downloaded it.
Hey VUZE, with a very big smile & excitement THANK YOU!!!! I’d be more than willing to pay a subscription fee for a grand service like that. It’s more like all in one package… GREAT JOB & can’t wait