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PowerDVD 10 Released


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Announcing CyberLink’s most advanced movie and media player to date, PowerDVD 10 delivers 3D and HD movies on the PC. PowerDVD 10 is a unique universal player that offers the best playback quality available. Whether it is 3D movie content, captured home videos, or your digital music files, PowerDVD 10 lets you experience them all from the same convenient player software, enhancing your enjoyment in all kinds of new ways.

A preview of the Great Features in PowerDVD 10

The Best Blu-Ray Player

  • PowerDVD 10 delivers the smoothest Blu-ray playback with its optimization for leading CPU/GPU technologies available from Intel, AMD and NVIDIA.
  • PowerDVD 10 delivers Blu-ray 3D to any compatible 3D display and supports all 3D video file formats.**
  • Start your movies faster than ever with loading times up to 4x faster than other Blu-ray software players.
Play DVDs & Videos in 3D

  • Enjoy stunning HD quality in 3D as PowerDVD 10 delivers the maximum 1080p resolution to each eye.
  • Support for the latest 3D hardware combined with PowerDVD’s leading playback features and technologies allow you to enjoy your movies like you’re at the center of all the action.
Upscale DVDs & Videos to HD

  • Enjoy better movie playback quality for both your DVDs and video files with TrueTheater™ HD upscaling technology.
  • PowerDVD 10 lets you output to an HDTV in a quality that looks noticeably sharper and clearer.
  • Play an extensive range of video formats, including MKV, FLV, 3GP, and more
Better Video Playback

  • Enhance your video files during real-time playback with TrueTheater™ Noise Reduction and TrueTheater™ Stabilizer.
  • Make the most of your home theater audio hardware with support for up to 8-channel speaker systems. TrueTheater™ Surround simulates different listening environments best suited to your current configuration.
Movie Reviews & Comments

  • Expand your world of movies with the ultimate movie player software PowerDVD 10-and the online community of MoovieLive.
  • Write reviews on any scenes in a movie and bookmark them to create MovieMarks.
  • Share your MovieMarks to MoovieLive.com and alert your Facebook friends about your latest review.

MediaShow 5 Released


box_ms5_eng_rCyberLink , the leader in manufacturing digital media creation proud manufacturer of PowerDVD, PowerDirector, PowerProducer and many more, has recently released their latest version of MediaShow.

What Exactly can  MediaShow 5 do for you?

MediaShow 5 helps you to organize, preserve and share your photos and videos. You can also create amazing slide shows and photo albums.

MediaShow s delivers you more fun, faster, and easier way to preserve and share your best moments. With its new and exciting features, you will say that it’s definitely worth it!

Bring in more fun and excitement to your treasured memories with these new and improved features:

Face Tagging

With FaceMeTM Technology, a precise face recognition technology, MediaShow easily identifies people in photos even when they’re wearing sunglasses or facing away from the camera.

People Search

With the help of the FaceMe Technology’s face tagging, searching for people is made quicker. To search you can simply type in the person’s name or click on the image of the person you’re searching, MediaShow will show all photos where the person appears in.

One-Click Fixes

With MediaShow’s jam-packed tools to enhance your photos and videos and make it look best with just one-click, your friends will absolutely be impressed.

Video Enhancement:

- Remove “visual noise” from grainy videos.
- Automatically adjust brightness, contrast and saturation.
- Remove distracting noise from your recorded audio.
- NEW Edit Log – tracks every change you apply and even compares the before and after.
- Apply effects when video editing.
- Easy Video Trimming Feature
more…

Photo Enhancement:

- Remove red-eyes
- Easy to use sliders for adjusting brightness, contrast, saturation, white balance and sharpness.
- Add style to your picture with a choice of 9 picture effects
- Batch Edit
More….

Creative Slideshow Tools

- 12 Style templates
- Background music
- Chapters for lengthy slideshows
- More than 30 Transition Effects

Super Fast Video Conversion

MediaShow 5 is optimized for Intel Core i7, NVIDIA CUDA, and ATI Stream, making your video conversion task 10x faster then ever before.

Share Memories Online

Upload your tagged photos directly to Facebook, to your photo collection on Flickr and your videos to YouTube, so that your friends can see how cool your photos and videos are.

Read more about MediaShow 5 and move your digital memories to the next level!

Until Next Time ;-)

Peter – Your PowerDVD Guide

Hello Friend,

What makes PowerDVD 9.0 a mile ahead of your ordinary movie player on a PC?

The director of Business and Development of Cyberlink, Tom Vaughan has recently been interviewed about the latest Cyberlink’s wonder, PowerDVD 9.0.

He sure couldn’t hide his excitement about the new hot features in PowerDVD 9.0 which include things like….

Split Screen – TrueTheatre HD and Regular DVD

trutheatreOne thing I that I like was when he said about the SplitScreen feature, “[Pointing at his laptop screen] Right side is enhanced with the TrueTheater HD enhancement technology. On the left hand side we see what a regular DVD looks like normally and on the right, we’ve enhanced it with our TrueTheater HD Enhancement Technology. So if I play, the brightness, the color and contrast are adjusted. The motion is smoothed out. On the left, you’ll see this motion judder that happens when you play movies.

Blu-ray Quality from Ordinary DVDs

With my ordinary DVD discs, I’m able to watch movies in Blu-ray-like quality on PowerDVD 9.0. It indeed looked way more clear and everything on the movie are seen detail by detail.

Minimal Power Usage

Tom also mentioned about the power of optimization capabilities. For example you’re on a plane and watching your favorite flick, you don’t need to worry about your laptop quickly losing its battery. Unlike other DVD suites, PowerDVD has been designed to a minimal use of power usage and CPU usage and yet can maximize the video processing for a better quality movie-viewing and satisfaction for being able to finish the movie just before the plane lands.

MoovieLive Share and Access Movie Ratings with the World

movieliveBut the coolest thing I love about PowerDVD that Tom Vaughan showed is about the MoovieLive, “we have a web service that comes in PowerDVD, and that’s called Moovie Live and that lets you share your movie ratings or access movie ratings from other users. It logs in to Moovie Live, and then we also have a way for you to look at your movie collection. So all the movies you’ve watched, you can add to your movie collection. And through their web service, you can access different meta data information about the movies, the category, the genre it’s on. And then you can go to the 3D view and browse through your movie collection this way.

Catch more of Tom’s interview below:

PowerDVD 9.0 Released

The Power Player, Cyberlink PowerDVD finally has its latest version released in March, 2009.

With the goal of delivering and enriching everybody’s movie experience to the highest level, PowerDVD 9.0 is now packed with new features that will absolutely make you go gaga over it.

Read more about PowerDVD 9.0

PowerDVD 9.0 highlights new features such as:

► Unparalleled HD movie experience:

With the widest range of support of HD video formats like AVCHD, AVCREC, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), MPEG-2 HD and WMV-HD.

► HDMI 1.3 Support:

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) simultaneously transfers 8 channels of audio over a single cable.

► PC friendly:

Whether you have low spec or a high spec CPU, worry not, you can now play your HD movies. BluRay disc playback included.

► Cyberlink True Theater™ Technology

Increase you DVD experience with True Theater™ Technology which Delivers superb quality for both DVD and HD movies on PC-based home-theater systems.

• TrueTheater HD: Up-scales DVD video for HD-like results
• TrueTheater Motion: Up-converts DVD video frame rates for smoother playback
• TrueTheater Stretch: Stretches video without image distortion
• TrueTheater Lighting: Enhances video image for a brighter, clearer movie
• TrueTheater Surround: Creates multichannel audio output for conventional stereo speakers

► FancyView Navigation

Introduces a fun way of browsing through movie titles, chapters and special features with animated, catalog-style browsing functionality.

► Many more

• Improved Cinema Playback Mode
• Movie Collection synched with MoovieLive

Links that may be of interest:

Buy PowerDVD 9.0

Upgrade to PowerDVD 9.0

Until next time ;-)

Peter – Your PowerDVD Guide

PowerDVD Ultra Released

PowerDVD UltraCyberlink recently released a new version of PowerDVD – Ultra.

The new PowerDVD Ultra boasts of new features such as:

  • Watch new high-def movies on HD DVDs or Blu-ray Discs
  • Experience exceptional audio quality with 7.1 home theater audio, and high-definition Dolby Digital Plus and DTS
  • Enjoy extreme image performance with optimization for the latest graphics cards
  • Access interactive movie content with support for BD-J and iHD
  • Play movies with advanced controls and smart DVD utilities

SoftwareCasa is running a special price on PowerDVD Ultra during the month of November. Click here to read more about PowerDVD Ultra.

Here is a matrix comparing the PowerDVD versions.

PowerDVD Comparison Chart

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Please post a comment if you have any questions about the new release or if you have used it and would like to share your experience.

And if you are interested in the new version, please check out the PowerDVD Ultra Coupon here (10% during November).

Until next time ;-)

Peter – Your PowerDVD Guide