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Release notes from CyberLink Corp.

The No.1 Movie Experience on the PC.

PowerDVD playback software offers the best HD, Blu-ray and DVD software playback around! Use TrueTheater to increase DVD quality for viewing on an HD display. This playback software also allows you to navigate easily with Fancy View, flipping through your movie titles and previewing content. There are also plenty of other useful interactive features for die-hard movie fans and the casual viewer alike. PowerDVD playback software is truly the way HD, Blu-ray and DVD was meant to be viewed! Download a trial version or purchase this HD, Blu-ray and DVD software at CyberLink.com.

Features:
Unsurpassed Video Quality :
* Intensely Vivid Images : CyberLink's second-generation dynamic video technology (CLEV-2) delivers DVD movies with greater luminance and more natural colors.
* Smart Video Deinterlacing: Intelligent frame-by-frame analysis produces ultra-smooth DVD playback by eliminating ghosting, feathering, and other elements.
* Multi-Display Ratios: CyberLink Pano Vision (CLPV) supports both 4:3 and 16:9 DVD content and displays with stretching technology to naturally optimize the display ratio of content with the available monitor.

Superior Audio Fidelity :
* Cinematic Surround Sound: CyberLink Multi-Channel Environment Impression -2 (CLMEI-2) creates a realistic feeling of being at the cinema by expanding 2-channel audio sources into 8-channel audio systems.
* High-Definition Audio: Creates sound quality better than CD audio. Support for DVD-Audio and DVD-Video delivers extra-crisp 192 KHz, 24 bit stereo audio and 96 KHz, 24 bit sound.
* Virtual Surround Sound: CyberLink Headphone and CyberLink Virtual Surround let you enjoy a wider sound image and virtual surround experience via two speakers or headphones.

The Ultimate Support for All Formats :
* DivX Pro: PowerDVD enables the direct playback of files created using DivXR Pro, which improves the level of video compression by 30% more than the original DivX format.
* Support for all DVD/CD Formats and Variants: DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, DVD+VR, DVD-VR, miniDVD, VCD 2.0 and SVCD.
* Support for a Broad Range of Media File Formats: Playback a wide variety of media file formats from their HD or directly from a disc including formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 HD, WMV, WMV-HD, MP3, WAV, DivX Pro, or H.264.

Complete Controls:
With PowerDVD users have comprehensive easy-to-use mouse and keyboard controls for enjoying DVDs. Two new features provide fun ways to enjoy audio: Audio Equalizer Presets adds atmospheric effects to movie or music playback, and Audio Pitch Scaling enhances music while playing Karaoke discs. Other features include: Parental Controls, Dual Subtitles, closed captioning support, angle switching, and Video Bookmarks, among many others.

Powerful Expandability
Expandability options including a Mobility Pack allowing road warriors save battery power while watching DVDs via a notebook, and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) Pack for playing video files compressed using this next-generation DVD standard.

What's New:
Audio
* New! - DTS-ES*
* New! - DTS Neo:6*
* New! - DTS 96/24**
* New! - AAC support**
* DTS 5.1**
* Dolby Digital 5.1
* Dolby Digital EX**
* Dolby Pro Logic IIx**
* Dolby Headphone**
* Dolby Virtual Speaker**
* CLMEI-2
* CyberLink Virtual Speaker
* CyberLink Headphone
* MLP lossless
* SRS TruSurroundXT**
* Pitch scaling technology
* Audio equalizer presets
* Audio visualizations
* Direct 96/24 output
* MP3, WAV

* - Available on Advance Audio Pack only
** - Available on Deluxe version

Video
* New! - MPEG4 AVC H.264 High-Definition Video
* New! - Adaptive CLEV-2 for video quality enhancement
* CLPV - Non-linear stretch technology
* Video smart de-interlacing

Playback Formats
* New! - VCPS for DVD+R with content protection
* New! - CPRM for DVD-R with content protection
* DVD-Audio
* External subtitles
* DVD files (DVD-Video, DVD-VR, DVD+VR) from any folder in your hard drive

Advanced Features
* New! - UPnP Support - Access your media from a Home Network
* New! - Say-It-Again - Automatically repeats the last movie scene
* New! - See-It-All - Automatically speeds playback to show as much of the movie as possible
* New! - Read-It-Clearly - Moves subtitles from the viewing screen
* New! - Freestyle User Interface offers 5 different ways of using PowerDVD