January 27, 1999 – Taipei, Taiwan – CyberLink's marketing strategy to bundle PowerDVD has successfully allowed their products to reach every corner of the world. Currently, CyberLink PowerDVD is bundled with top brands of performance hard-ware products. These products includes mainboards, VGA boards, DVD-ROM drives, systems and notebooks from Taiwan, Korea, U.K., Germany and Japan.

According to Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink Corp., "PowerDVD goes through a series of stringent tests to assure complete compatibility with major hardware devices such as mainboards, VGA boards, and accelerator cards. It is no wonder why these top brands chose PowerDVD as their bundled software."

Another reason may contribute to the fact that the DVD market demand is growing and predicted as one of the hottest product in 1999. According to DiskTrend shipment of DVD-ROM drives is forecasted to reach 13 million units in 1999 and estimates a three-fold growth of over 34 million in the year 2000. CyberLink PowerDVD fully utilizes the computation power of today's processors enabling DVD playback directly from DVD-ROM drives without the need of costly add-on boards. Which is a feature most beneficial to the notebook users, due to limited room for add-on boards. “As the personal computer is equipped with more computing power and that the trends move in favor of DVD, software DVD players like CyberLink PowerDVD will be the most cost effective choice to playback DVD movies and titles on desktop or notebook computers,” stated Alice H. Chang.

About PowerDVD
PowerDVD is a pure software DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) player, which brings high-quality movies and karaoke into the multi-media personal computers. PowerDVD allows users to playback high resolution MPEG-2 video with high quality 5.1-channel AC-3 surround audio. Moreover, it provides a complete set of commands for navigation and advanced control features such as seamless multi-angle switching and up to 32-language channels.