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.