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Jan. 31, 2005
CyberLink PowerDVD 6 Delivers Unsurpassed DVD Quality With Leading Video Technologies

Taipei, Taiwan----Jan. 31, 2005----CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a world leader and pioneer in providing integrated solutions for the Digital Home today announced PowerDVD 6's superior DVD playback experience is delivered via video technologies refined especially for PC-based audio-video systems.

Technologies including second-generation CyberLink Eagle Vision (CLEV-2™), CyberLink Smart Video Deinterlacing, CyberLink Pano Vision (CLPV™), and support for high-definition video, improve DVD playback quality and enhance the enjoyment of DVDs on the PC.

"DVD enthusiasts love PowerDVD because CyberLink continues to push the technology barriers, delivering unsurpassed video technologies and a DVD experience of the highest quality," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. "PowerDVD 6 lets users enjoy brighter, more natural images, and smoother DVD playback, as well as output onto standard-size and wide-screen displays."

PowerDVD 6 includes the following breakthrough features and technologies:

  • CyberLink Eagle Vision 2 is CyberLink's second-generation dynamic video adjustment technology, creating brighter luminance and more natural colors during DVD playback – especially on liquid crystal displays. Images are improved using an adaptive luminance adjustment based on time, with frames analyzed before and after the current scene to smooth out any adjustments to colors and contrast. CyberLink's solution eliminates the problems created by linear-based technology that often over-compensate brightness, contrast and saturation. CyberLink Eagle Vision 2 leverages recent improvements in PC hardware and processing power, and creates images that appear better than their original playback quality.
  • CyberLink Smart Video Deinterlacing uses intelligent frame-by-frame analysis and an adaptive deinterlacing technique to produce ultra-smooth video playback. PowerDVD decides which scenes require deinterlacing and compensates for wrongly encoded video using a pull-down detection process. Using this process Smart Video Deinterlacing eliminates the ghosting, feathering and unwanted image elements found in other playback applications. PowerDVD 6 also provides greater choice of deinterlacing technologies by allowing users to select from Bob, Median, and Pixel-Adaptive modes.
  • CyberLink Pano Vision maximizes playback flexibility by supporting both 4:3 and 16:9 DVD content and PC monitors. PowerDVD applies a non-linear stretching technique to expand images of 4:3 video to fit a wide-screen monitor, or shrinks 16:9 video to fit standard-size monitors.
  • High-definition video is supported, enabling playback of WMV HD and MPEG-2 HD files, maximizing users' enjoyment of high-definition content played back on high-definition hardware.

About CyberLink Corp.

Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corp. is a world leader and pioneer in providing integrated solutions for the Digital Home. The products are categorized into two major lines: Digital Multimedia Solutions and Training Solutions. Digital Multimedia Solutions includes DVD Burning and Creativity Products focused on media creation by advancing the technologies to capture, edit, author and record all types of media. Digital Entertainment products provide 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 currently listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (5203.TW). 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 located 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.