Taipei, Taiwan, April 26, 1999 - CyberLink's PowerDVD, the best known DVD playback software, was chosen by Shop IBM, a web-marketing division of IBM Japan. It will first offer PowerDVD as a promotional bundle with its popular external drive model XD-400M.

"As you might have heard, IBM has one of the most stringent quality assurance guidelines in qualifying third-party products. So I consider this a strong proof that our product is superior to any other alternative in the market," said Alice Chang, President of CyberLink. "We are proud to win IBM's approval on our flagship DVD product. This is only a small beginning of business relationships we would like to build with IBM. We would like to see PowerDVD to be bundled with more of IBM's products in the near future."

IBM Japan and IBM have been aggressive about "DVD-enabling" the personal computers. Most of its high-end PC are already equipped with DVD drives.

About CyberLink PowerDVD
PowerDVD is a high quality, pure software DVD playback and navigation software that brings high quality DVD video into the multimedia computer. The newest version of PowerDVD now features DirectShow for better support of video and audio hardware. This version also support ATI, S3 Savage and SiS6326 motion compensation functions and offer the option to use S3, SiS hardware video acceleration. On the audio side, PowerDVD supports Creative SP/DIF AC3 audio, A3D/DS3D/Dolby Surround allowing users to build home theaters from their multimedia PCs. One of the main feature that set PowerDVD ahead of all competitors is its strong hardware compatibility. Recently, a number of DVD-ROM drive suppliers, such as IBM, Panasonic and AOpen have already bundled PowerDVD providing value-added software feature to their hardware.