Taipei, Taiwan----July 22, 2003----CyberLink Corp., a leading developer of digital video software and e-learning solutions, announced today that PowerDVD 5 was selected by Gigabyte to be bundled with its advanced ATI powered VGA Empire. PowerDVD 5 is the latest release from CyberLink featuring breakthrough technologies to bring a theater-like DVD experience right to the PC or notebook.
"PowerDVD 5 is a clear choice for us," said David Chiang, general manager of channel business of Gigabyte. "Its new technologies are amazing and they turn any consumer PC into a high quality home theater. We believe that together with our ATI powered graphics cards, the combination will deliver high performance DVD enjoyment to our consumer PC users."
"We are pleased to announce this bundling agreement with Gigabyte," said Alice H. Chang. "Our newest version of PowerDVD 5 comes with new technologies to provide even better viewing and listening experience in a PC or notebook environment. Ever since its release, PowerDVD 5 has won many praise from our customers worldwide. This kind of response will push us to continue to deliver new breakthrough technologies for the digital video and audio world." New technologies in PowerDVD 5 include CLEV™ to enhance color and contrast of movies displayed on LCDs, CLPV™ to adjust wide screen movies into full screen display or vice versa with minimal distortion, and CLMEI™ to convert 2-channel audio and output to multi-channel speakers for a surround sound effect. PowerDVD 5 is now also available in different editions with different sets of features and functions to meet the requirements of hardware bundling suppliers.
About Gigabyte New VGA Empire
Gigabyte leverages ATI's innovative graphics technology and penetrates her power
to graphics card market. Adopting ATI leading graphics engine, Radeon 9800PRO,
9600PRO, 9600, 9200, 9200SE, 7000 series products, Gigabyte recently launched
her flagship product, GV-R98256D, GV-R98128D based on R9800 PRO and GV-R96P128D
based on R9600PRO, GV-R96128D based on R9600, GV-R92128VH, GV-R92128DH, GV-R92128TE
and GV-R9264DH based on R9200, GV-R92S128T and GV-R9264T based on R9200SE and
GV-R7064T and GV-R7032T based on R7000 which are the first graphics accelerator
card to supporting latest AGP 8X, 8-pixel pipeline and MicrosoftO DirectXO 9.0
in the world. Furthermore, Gigabyte is the 1st tier supplier who offers the
complete full line VGA product in ATI solutions.
About PowerDVD 5.0
PowerDVD is the world's leading DVD software player. The new release PowerDVD
5 features breakthrough technologies to deliver a theater-like DVD experience
on a PC or notebook. The new technologies include: CLEV™ to enhance color
and contrast of movies displayed on LCDs, CLPV™, which easily adjusts
wide screen movies into full screen (4:3) display or vice versa with minimal
distortion, and CLMEI™, which converts 2-channel audio and output to multi-channel
speakers for a surround sound effect. Other new features for interactivity and
personalized viewing experience can be found at www.gocyberlink.com
About Gigabyte
Founded in 1986, Gigabyte Technology has built an unshakable reputation and
solid foundation in the computer industry on the reliability of its motherboards
and add-on card products. In diversifying from this solid base, Gigabyte Technology
is devoting it's resources to expanding into new product lines, such as desktop
platform solutions, servers, broadband routers, Gigabit switches, wireless LAN,
and NAS (Network Attached Storage) appliances.
With a talented, resourceful infrastructure and design capability, from Motherboard,
VGA, Desktop Platform, to Communication and Server, Gigabyte Technology has
developed a full-scale product network, not only creating the ideal platform
for the world of Internet connectivity but also resulting in new concepts in
most all aspects of our lives. In the coming information appliance age, Gigabyte
Technology is users' premier companion to brighten people's mind-scope and future
life.
About CyberLink Corp.
Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corp. is a world leader and pioneer in bringing advanced
digital video and audio software applications to market. The products are categorized
into two major lines: Digital Multimedia Applications and E-Learning Solutions.
Digital Multimedia products focus on Media Creation by advancing the technologies
to capture, edit, author and record all types of media; as well as Digital Entertainment
by perfecting state-of-the-art technologies to providing high quality media
enjoyment on the PC. These award-winning software applications are ideal solutions
for turning today's mainstream computers into home theaters and digital video
centers. The company's E-Learning Solutions include authoring tools to creating
training contents and training management systems that offer an easy and cost
effective way to deliver and manage training programs over corporate intranets
or the Internet. As a result of the company's solid growth and profitability,
CyberLink became a public company in October, 2000 and is listed on the Taiwan
Over The Counter Exchange (OTC: 5203). To keep up with market demands, CyberLink
has operations in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region including
Japan. CyberLink's worldwide headquarters are in Taipei and the company website
is: www.goCyberlink.com.
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Corporate: Renee Chen at press@gocyberlink.com or by phone at: +886-2-8667-1298,
ext. 301 for more details.