According to Alex Weng, Product Manager at CyberLink, PowerDVD is an excellent solution for Notebook manufacturers due to a number of reasons. For one thing, PowerDVD takes advantage of the new instruction set defined by Intel (SSE; Streaming SIMD Extensions) and AMD (3DNow! and Enhanced 3DNow!). So for notebooks using Intel Pentium III/Celeron with SSE or AMD K6-2/K6-2+, the CPU utilization can be lowered. This is a real benefit to Notebook manufacturers for the fact that notebooks are generally not that powerful compared with desktop systems with an equal CPU clock.

In addition, PowerDVD also supports the motion compensation hardware in all major notebook display chips, such as S3 Savage MX/IX, ATI Rage LT Pro and Trident 9525DVD, to again lower the CPU consumption. Finally, Alex Weng notes that PowerDVD is fully compatible with ACPI technology, which is adopted by major notebook manufacturers to perform notebook power management. The notebook can be suspended while PowerDVD is playing a movie and can be woken up later to continue playing, without any glitches.

About CyberLink PowerDVD

CyberLink's PowerDVD is the flagship of CyberLink's complete range of video and audio software products. It features unrivaled functions allowing users to view high quality video and media-rich DVD contents on the personal computer. PowerDVD is based on the proprietary MPEG-2 video decoding engine that supports full 720 x 480 resolution for NTSC video playback and 720 x 576 for PAL. The audio decoding engine of PowerDVD is certified by Dolby to meet their high quality audio requirements. The 5.1-channel or 2-channel Dolby Digital streams are sent through S/PDIF to the external Dolby Digital decoder for high fidelity decoding and playback. The current PowerDVD 2.55 version is loaded with new features such as the i-Power service, multiple skin selections, bookmark functions, and screen capture functions.

About CyberLink Corp.

Established in 1995, CyberLink Corporation is a leading software developer specializing in digital video, audio, and Internet kernel technology. Her software applications fully utilize PCs' audio and video capabilities and make video/audio/Internet applications accessible and affordable. They believe digital video/audio technologies can be used creatively in building innovative software tools that are practical, productive, and entertaining. CyberLink's productive and creative software not only fully utilizes your multimedia PCs, but also supports real-time Internet services and communication.

CyberLink programs are available for press evaluation. Please send requests to: press@gocyberlink.com or contact us by phone at: +886-2-8667-1298.