Want the maximum DVD experience on your own PC? Then try MGI's SoftDVD MAX.

This software package lets you watch films with the familiarity of an on-screen VCR keypad and navigate with a mouse-operated slider for easy fast forward and reverse operation.

Using the zoom and pan function, you can get up close and personal to the best of the action or pan across your favourite scenes.

It comes with a play list facility which lets viewers run multiple files alongside each other.

From an anorak's perspective, this must bode well.

In case you cannot find the exact scene you would like to see again, the book-marking tool means plucking out the desired moment is a piece of cake.

Video lovers and professionals alike are catered for as this package supports multiple DVD drives on a single computer.

Installation is straightforward with a built-in AutoSense video and audio card detector.

Acoustically, you feel you are sitting in the best seat in the house with a choice of either Dolby Digital surround sound or conventional 2-Channel audio.

To avoid annoying your neighbours, it is compatible with any ordinary stereo headphones.

MGI seems to have thought about its market and provides multiple language subtitles.

A parental rating lock ensures the gory and gruesome is out of bounds to those too young.

With MPEG1 and MPEG2, films and images are breathtakingly-crisp in comparison to VCR. Viewers can shrink picture size to letterbox format or maximise it to a wide screen display.

An all-round feeling of control when watching your chosen movie with enhanced viewing quality and playback functions makes SoftDVD MAX a sound choice for all moving-mad computer kids.

Price: £19.99.

Contact: www.mgieurope.com or 0800 973830.

Feel good factor: 8 out of 10.