3

Welcome to CyberLink Member Zone

Newsroom
< BACK | SHARE
Jan. 28, 2004
CyberLink Wins Four Excellence Awards for Software Innovation

CyberLink solutions honored for fourth consecutive year


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/

##########
All companies and product names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and are the sole property of their respective owners.
Copyright c 2003 CyberLink Corp. All rights reserved.

Press Contacts:
USA: Kristin Kolodzinski, kkolo@sspr.com or by phone +1-888-275-5878, ext. 30.
Germany: Regina Glaser, r.glaser@konzept-pr.de or by phone + 49-821-34300-17.
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.