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Jan. 11, 2007
CyberLink Launches PowerCinema 5

Turns the Home PC into the Ultimate Platform for Digital TV Entertainment

Taipei, Taiwan----Jan. 11th, 2007----CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a world leader in digital home solutions, today launched Vista-ready CyberLink PowerCinema 5, offering new features for enjoying digital TV, photos, videos, music, weather, and news, all via the home PC.

With the growing shift to watching and recording TV on the PC, PowerCinema 5 incorporates these leading digital TV features:

  • PowerCinema is compatible with analog and DVB-T digital TV services in Europe and elsewhere, and analog and ATSC digital TV services in North America.

  • Internet and Teletext Electronic Program Guide support enables access to program information (where supported by region) and provides an easy way to schedule TV recording.

  • Watching TV with time-shift recording lets users record in the background while playing, fast forwarding, or rewinding their TV program. Support for multiple subtitles and audio streams for DVB-T allows simultaneous playback and recording of the same program in different languages.

  • Support for "bouquet" TV services allows the playback and recording of different programs via the same "split" multi-channel signal.

  • PowerCinema also supports the playback and recording of DVB-T-based radio programs.

  • Quick searching for recorded TV programs by name, date, category or channel.

  • Virtual surround effects for 2-channel audio hardware, such as PC speakers or that found on notebooks.

 

"CyberLink PowerCinema lets users turn their PC into a multi-functional media center that combines the best features of today's must-have consumer devices," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink Corp. "Users can enjoy premium TV and DVD content as well as work with their personal media files, while plug-in options expand functionality according to their interests."

PowerCinema's stylish 3D interface and support for remote control operation allow the easy navigation of features, including recording and playing TV programs, watching DVDs and video files, synchronizing music files with portable music players, editing photos, and playing picture slideshows, among many other digital media activities.

Advanced features can be added with a range of plug-in products that enhance the digital home experience. Plug-ins offer features such as disc authoring and burning, automatic video editing, automatically identified TV sports highlights, home-theater audio, and easy home networking. An optional remote control is also available from CyberLink.

 

CyberLink PowerCinema 5 includes these other key features:

DVD Movies

  • Second-generation video-enhancing technology CyberLink Eagle Vision (CLEV-2), makes watching DVDs on the PC even more enticing, by brightening images and making colors more natural while compensating for dark DVD playback on LCD monitors.

  • Dolby Digital audio 5.1-channel support lets users maximize their enjoyment of Hollywood DVDs with playback through their 5.1-channel audio equipment.

  • Second-generation audio-expansion technology CyberLink Multi-channel Environment Impression (CLMEI-2) takes up to 5.1-channel audio and expands it into 8-channel audio for playback on the latest digital home-theater systems.

  • CyberLink Headphone (CLHP) and CyberLink Virtual Speaker (CLVS) deliver a richer audio experience with virtual surround via headphones or two speakers.

Videos

  • Direct capturing of video content from high-definition camcorders and digital video cameras offers an easy way to quickly build a home library of home movies.

  • Support for high-definition video enables the playback of higher quality WMV-HD and HD MPEG-2 video files.

  • Recent Videos allows users to quickly return to their recently opened video files.

Pictures

  • Stylish transitions, animated effects, and the easy selection of background music allow users to display their photos as entertaining slideshows.

  • Auto red-eye removal and other image fixing tools provide a quick one-click method of enhancing digital photos.

  • Recent Photos allows users to quickly return to their recently opened image files.

Music

  • Sync-n-Go lets users transfer their music files to a portable music player according to criteria such as the 50 most often played tracks or those played in the last 30 days.

  • CD ripping enables creation of WMA audio files, while Recent Music allows users to quickly find recently opened audio files.

  • PowerCinema's track management features give users even greater control over their entire music library by allowing them to personalize an editable list of their favorite songs.

FM Radio

  • CyberLink's Time-shift recording for TV has been implemented to support FM radio, enabling users to listen to their music program while recording in the background.

  • Live Recording records radio programs directly to a user's hard drive.

  • Schedule Recording lets users program PowerCinema to record programs at a set time and date.

News and Weather

  • Users can easily select their city and the current weather information is displayed on their main menu. PowerCinema allows users to access 9-day forecasts from weather.com.

  • Pre-defined lists of RSS feeds provide live access to online news content. Users can create their own list of favorite RSS feeds.

  • Compatibility with audio podcasts offers access to online recordings from websites like CNN.

Enhancement Options

  • CyberLink MagicSports for reliving the highlights of recorded baseball and soccer games.

  • CyberLink MagicDirector for automatically editing videos into a movie featuring effects, transitions, music and titles applied using a range of style templates.

  • CyberLink MakeDisc for authoring DVDs and burning data to Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, and CDs.

  • CyberLink Media Server for giving access to files stored on a PC to DNLA-certified media players that are connected to the network.

  • CyberLink SoftDMA for accessing media files from DNLA-certified media server devices across a home network.

  • CyberLink Remote Control rounds off the home entertainment experience with easy navigation of features.

  • Advanced Audio Pack lets users upgrade their Dolby support to the latest 8-channel home theater audio, expand from 2 to 8-channel audio, and experience virtual surround sound technology, with Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Pro Logic IIx, Dolby Headphone and Dolby Virtual Speaker.

Product Availability

CyberLink PowerCinema 5 is already available online as a packaged box version including an analog-digital TV tuner card, supporting the following languages: English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. An upgrade version is also available as a software-only download.

  • CyberLink PowerCinema 5 with Tuner Card USD 99.00/Euro 119.00

  • Software Upgrade from Version 4            USD 49.95/Euro 39,99

 

About CyberLink

CyberLink Corp is the leader and pioneer in enabling digital multimedia on PCs and CEs. Backed by a group of high caliber software engineers, CyberLink owns its core codec and a number of patented technologies. Today, CyberLink has built a solid reputation for delivering high-quality, interoperable, and fast time-to-market solutions that keep our OEM partners on the leading edge. Our business partners include leaders in the PC industry: drive manufacturers, graphics-card makers, and top-5 desktop and notebook brands. Today, CyberLink Software Solutions include: complete applications for Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs, Digital Home entertainment, Mobile TV and eHRD solutions. With customers spanning from multi-national corporations to small/medium-sized businesses, and from power users to home users, CyberLink has enjoyed rapid and consistent growth leading to a record breaking IPO in 2000 on the Taiwan Over The Counter Exchange (OTC: 5203). Currently, CyberLink is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: 5203.TW). CyberLink's worldwide headquarters is in Taipei. To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region, including Japan. For more information, please visit CyberLink's website at http://www.cyberlink.com

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