Taipei, Taiwan----January 8, 2007----CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a world leader in digital home solutions today announced that Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. has selected PowerDVD as the software player to demonstrate Blu-ray Disc movie playback from Pioneer's new Blu-ray Disc drives. The demonstration will be on display at Pioneer's booth at CES, Las Vegas Convention Center Central Hall #9827.
"The promises of high definition has finally arrived," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. "CyberLink is pleased to co-work with Pioneer to demonstrate movie playback on Blu-ray Disc drives with PowerDVD."
CyberLink PowerDVD for Blu-ray Disc features:
- Playback of high-definition Hollywood movie titles five times the video and audio quality of current DVDs
- Optimized performance for playback of high-definition video content on graphics cards featuring NVIDIA PureVideo, ATI Avivo, and Intel Clear Video technology
- Support for new next-generation disc features, like Picture-in-Picture movie mode, networking, interactive BD-J features, bookmarks, and advanced disc navigation
- High-definition audio with support for Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD technologies
- 6.1-channel surround sound, ensuring compatibility with home theater audio systems, and audio expansion of up to 8 channels
- Support for double-layer Blu-ray Discs
- Conformance to the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) specifications for the playback of premium content through DVI and HDMI connectors
- Support for BUS Protection ensures premium content protection via VGA systems.
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. 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). 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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