Taipei, Taiwan----Jan. 28, 2004----CyberLink Corp.
(Taiwan OTC: 5203), a leading developer of digital video software and training
solutions, announced today its PowerDVD, PowerDirector, PowerProducer and StreamAuthor
products received Taiwan's "Symbol of Excellence" award, giving the
company its fourth win in four consecutive years.
The "Symbol of Excellence" awards, the official mark of Taiwan's best, has been held annually for the past twelve years, heralding Taiwan's best designed, most innovative, and highest-quality products. The awards are sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Affairs of The Republic of China, and are judged by a professional panel comprised of industry, academic and authoritative leaders. Entrants are required to receive a positive showing in every category comprising R&D, design innovation, quality system, marketing, and brand awareness to eligible for the award.
This year CyberLink has won the award with its PowerDVD, the DVD playback software, PowerDirector, the video editing software, PowerProducer, the DVD authoring software, and StreamAuthor, the all-in-one learning solution.
"Receiving the fourth consecutive honor from the government shows that our continuing effort in developing and marketing leading-edge digital media entertainment and training solutions has been highly recognized, and also acts as the motivating force for us to keep working hard on new ways of innovation," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. "We feel honored that four of our products have won this award. We will continue our corporate mission with a spirit of innovation, change, integrity and professional excellence, to provide the best digital multimedia solutions and service to our customers."
About CyberLink PowerDVD 5
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.
About CyberLink PowerDirector 3
PowerDirector 3 is "from start to finish" video-editing software that
provides the best way for both advanced and entry-level users to create eye-catching
movies. By offering a dual-mode timeline and storyboard user-interface with
a broad range of new movie production features, PowerDirector 3 ensures moving
editing is easy too. New technologies in version 3 include CyberLink's fourth
generation MPEG engine to automatically remove image artifacts and provide better
image quality, SVRT™ 2 to render the edited video or audio individually
for better quality and reduced production times, and DV QuickScan to quickly
select and capture specific video segments without manually positioning the
tape.
About CyberLink PowerProducer 2 Gold
PowerProducer 2 Gold is easy-to-use software designed for producing movies and
photos on DVDs and CDs. Targeted at the consumer level, PowerProducer 2 Gold
is a wizard-style program that offers full support for DVD+/- VR including importing,
producing and editing. Special features include an intuitive user interface
and the following advanced technologies: Streaming Rendering to render video
on the fly; Accu-Chapter technology to allow creation of chapter points with
exact detail; Smart Video Rendering Technology (SVRT™) to speed up the
rendering process and maintain video quality; Disc Defragmentation to optimize
disk space; and Right-to-Disc™ Recording for converting files directly
from DV, TV or VCR to DVDs without buffering to a hard disk.
About CyberLink StreamAuthor 2.65
StreamAuthor provides today's corporations with an easy-to-use and cost-effective
authoring tool that can be used to deliver customized rich-media presentations
to staff, customers, and partners via the Web, Intranet or CD/DVD. With StreamAuthor
2.65, corporations have an all-in-one authoring solution that makes it quick
and simple for any staff member to create dynamic (SCORM 1.2 compliant) rich-media
presentations, incorporating video, audio, images, HTML, Microsoft PowerPoint
slides, and more. StreamAuthor is ideal for creating e-Training presentations,
product/sales demonstrations and corporate communications documents.
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 Solutions and Training Solutions. Digital
Multimedia Solutions includes Media Creation Products focusing on media creation
by advancing technologies to capture, edit, author and record all types of media,
and Digital Entertainment products providing high quality media enjoyment on
the PC by perfecting state-of-the-art audio-video technologies. These award-winning
software applications are ideal solutions for turning today's mainstream computers
into home theaters and digital video centers. The company's Training Solutions
include authoring tools for creating training content 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. http://www.gocyberlink.com/
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Corporate: Renee Chen or Manal Ma at press@gocyberlink.com or by phone at: +886-2-8667-1298,
ext. 301 or 303 for more details.