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TOKYO, May 24, 1999 - CyberLink's PowerDVD, the most popular DVD playback
software, was chosen by MKE, a DVD drive manufacturing division of Panasonic
as their software solution for Panasonic’s DVD-ROM drives.
"Obviously, Panasonic plays a pivotal role in the growth of DVD market.
Winning their endorsement clearly makes this deal one of the most exciting
milestone for the worldwide success of CyberLink", said Alice Chang, CEO
of CyberLink.
With the growing popularity of DVD, the combination of Panasonic DVD
drive and CyberLink PowerDVD make a perfect DVD solution on the personal
computers, allowing users to enjoy vibrant colors and rich details of
DVD titles and the complete navigation and interactivity features as well.
"Panasonic had thoroughly tested and benchmarked almost all DVD playback
software available in the market, and they came to us", according to Nobby
Yoshida, President of CyberLink Japan. “We are proud to be the chosen
partner with a leading brand in the IT Industry.
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 supports ATI, S3 Savage
and SiS6326 motion compensation features and offers the option to use
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 features that set
PowerDVD ahead of all competitors is its strong hardware compatibility.
Recently, a number of DVD-ROM drive suppliers, such as IBM, and AOpen
have already bundled PowerDVD providing value-added software feature to
their hardware.
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