As a movie fan, I always want to watch my favourite films in the best quality possible. The cinematic effects and crisp sound add velocity to these films, making them more pleasurable and at the same time, informative.

However, with each step forward in these enhancements comes with an inevitable change in our application armada.  Supporting a specific format can be cumbersome for a movie fan, as one downloaded or purchased film may require you to get or even purchase a specific player to make them useful.

This fuelled my desire to search for a universal player that supports the widest array of digital movie formats known today.  This search led me to Cyberlink’s newest release – the PowerDVD 10.

The PowerDVD10 is Cyberlink’s most advanced movie and media player to date.  It is a unanimous player that gives the best playback quality available.  It supports all movie formats including 3D, personal home videos, and digital music for your entertainment needs.

The PowerDVD 10 preview:

Optimized Blu-Ray Playback.  Supports the best Blu-Ray playback with enhanced capabilities that go side-by-side with technology giants such as Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA.  The PowerDVD 10 allows quick startup and play mode up to 4x faster than most Blu-Ray software players.

Enhanced Video Support. The PowerDVD 10 is backed up by TrueTheater™ technology that lets you shape your current video settings according to your own preference. It improves your video files (even during real-time playback mode) thru TrueTheater™ Noise Reduction and TrueTheater™ Stabilizer.

View from HD to 3D. It lets you view HD videos to 3d with its wide 3D file format support, bringing true-to-life images on screen with any compatible 3D display.  It also takes you right where the action is with its stunning 1080p 3D software and hardware support for the best viewing quality.

Superior Audio. It sharpens your home theater audio with its 8-channel speaker support systems.  You may also select the optimum sound viability for your cinematic environment thru TrueTheater™ Surround.

Rate, Review, and Bookmark. Rate, review, and bookmark your favourite scenes with the PowerDVD 10.  It also allows you to share your MovieMarks to your peers through social networking sites such as Facebook and MoovieLive.

With its wide array of supported formats, the PowerDVD 10 gives you the flexibility and convenience to satisfy your thirst for your ultimate viewing pleasure.

*For more information on the product, check out PowerDVD 3D here

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.

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

Good Day!

We will start on a series of Tutorials on Cyberlink’s PowerDVD 9.

One of the support questions we  encounter once in a while from PowerDVD users who want to upgrade to different Editions or  who have encountered an error during installation is ” unable to uninstall PowerDVD 9 within the Windows Add/Remove Programs Tool”. The main cause of this  problem is that PowerDVD program was corrupted during download or did not install correctly.  This happens in rare occasions.  However if you do encounter this problem this is how to deal with it.

The following are step-by-step instructions on how to resolve this issue:

1. Reboot your computer

2. Download Microsoft Cleanup Tool here:

3. To execute the Microsoft Clean Up tool, follow these steps:

- Click Start, click All Programs, and then click Windows Installer Clean Up.

- In the Windows Installer Clean Up box, select PowerDVD 9.

- Click the Remove button.

4. Remove “PowerDVD 9″ Installation Folder

For Windows XP and Vista 32bit:

- The original PowerDVD Folder Path is here: C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD9

For Windows Vista 64bit:

- The original PowerDVD Folder Path is here: C:\Program Files(x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD9

5. Remove C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information{A8516AC9-AAF1-47F9-9766-03E2D4CDBCF8}folder

(This is a hidden folder. Please enable show hidden files and folders option under Windows Explorer > Organize > Folder and search options > View > Hidden files and folders)

6. To execute the Registry Editor, follow these steps:

For Windows XP:

(1) Click Start > click Run > then type Regedit.

(2) Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CyberLink\PowerDVD9

(3) Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ {A8516AC9-AAF1-47F9-9766-03E2D4CDBCF8}

(4) Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\InstallShield Uninstall Information\ {A8516AC9-AAF1-47F9-9766-03E2D4CDBCF8}

(5) Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\InstallShield_ {A8516AC9-AAF1-47F9-9766-03E2D4CDBCF8}

(6) Restart your computer.

For Windows Vista 32 bit:

(1) Click Start > click All Programs > click Accessories > click Run > then type Regedit.

(2) Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CyberLink\PowerDVD9

(3) Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ {A8516AC9-AAF1-47F9-9766-03E2D4CDBCF8}

(4) Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\InstallShield Uninstall Information\ {A8516AC9-AAF1-47F9-9766-03E2D4CDBCF8}

(5) Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\InstallShield_ {A8516AC9-AAF1-47F9-9766-03E2D4CDBCF8}

(6) Restart your computer.

For Windows Vista 64 bit:

(1) Click Start > click All Programs > click Accessories > click Run > then type Regedit.

(2) Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\CyberLink\PowerDVD9

(3) Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{A8516AC9-AAF1-47F9-9766-03E2D4CDBCF8}

(4) Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\InstallShield Uninstall Information\ {A8516AC9-AAF1-47F9-9766-03E2D4CDBCF8}

(5) Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\InstallShield_ {A8516AC9-AAF1-47F9-9766-03E2D4CDBCF8}

(6) Restart your computer.

That’s all there is to it. Congratulations, your PowerDVD is now completely removed and you can proceed to install your new Edition of PowerDVD or reinstall your PowerDVD 9.0.

I hope this has been helpful.

Until Next Time

Peter – Your PowerDVD Guide

Cyberlink’s PowerDVD 9 has got all its loyal users and new-users awed by its powerful features and the ultimate movie experience it brings that no other players can do.

Being named as the the best Blu-ray/DVD disc player of today, PowerDVD sure lives to its name of providing us with high-quality movie playback and fantastic audio-quality, all of which gives a new definition and dimension to the term “movie experience”.

With it’s cutting edge technologies and features, I never regret having my own copy of PowerDVD 9. I have recommended this to all my friends looking at a DVD playback software in this harsh economic time.  PowerDVD is paralleled by its pretty sensible price, I and you will never have any regrets!

Two very “techy” and essential features I love about PowerDVD 9 are the TrueTheater™ and the FancyView Navigation. What do these features do?

Read on…

► TrueTheater™  Technology

TrueTheater HD: Delivers a sharper, artifact-free image when converting low to high resolution, resulting to a picture-perfect quality.

TrueTheater Motion: with dual-core CPUs and hyper-threading technology, PowerDVD takes advantage of these in providing a smoother and judder-free playback.

TrueTheater Stretch: Widen your screen view and still look more natural with the preset and customized settings.

TrueTheater Lighting: Enhances image details and naturalize colors whether using a profile or manually and enjoy a brighter and clearer picture.

TrueTheater Surround: Improves audio-quality with the PowerDVD’s 8-channel audio systems whether you’re on a conventional stereo speakers or on a headphone.

► FancyView Navigation

Here’s a fun way of navigating your movie titles, chapters and special feature in whole new perspective with its animated, catalog-style browsing functionality. Making your playback software movie experience even more exciting and memorable.
FancyView is available during the Cinema playback mode. Finding movies might just turn out to be as fun as the movie itself.

Check out more features of Cyberlink PowerDVD 9 !

Keep up with the rest and update your old version to PowerDVD 9.

Until Next Time

Peter – Your PowerDVD Guide

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

One 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

But 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:

Have you been dreaming on purchasing the latest version of Cyberlink PowerDVD 9.0 but still waiting for that dream discount?

Stop dreaming and hurry!

As an introductionary offer for the new version PowerDVD 9.0 – SoftwareCasa is giving a $10.00 coupon to all buyers . Valid to purchase your very own newest PowerDVD 9.0. This code is valid for use once per client and the offer expires, Friday, 13th March 2009.

Here’s how to redeem your $10.00 Coupon:

1. Go to the order page: PowerDVD 9.0
2. Click on “Order Now”
3. Click on “Checkout” enter your personal information and click “Continue”
4. Once on this page click on “have code”
5. Enter your $10.00 Discount Code in the field provided : casaspringspecial
6. Click on “Checkout” and your discount will be reflected.

REMEMBER: This code is valid for use once per client and the offer expires, Friday, 13th March 2009.

What are you waiting for? Grab your own copy now and don’t miss that $10.00 coupon advantage!

Until next time

Peter – Your PowerDVD Guide

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

Included features are of course Blu-ray playback and HDMI sound. New is also that PowerDVD 8 is integrated with the MoovieLive portal. Where you can share info about DVDs.

The most interesting aspect, I think, is the Movie Remix feature. You can now re-edit DVDs by cutting and rearranging movie scenes, overdub the existing audio track with your own and overlay text plus graphics.

The main details:

PowerDVD delivers award-winning playback quality for movies on the PC.

• High-definition movie content – The best video quality out there, with support for video formats like AVCHD and Blu-ray Discs.
• Advanced video technologies – See the beauty in each shot of every scene with TrueTheater™ Technology.
• Home theater audio – Enjoy movies on the PC as if you are right at the cinema, with support for Dolby, DTS, and other home theater technologies.
• Smart DVD utilities – Save battery power on your notebook (See-it-All), move language subtitles (Read-it-Clearly), and auto loop a section of dialog (Say-it-Again), with PowerDVD’s award winning DVD controls.

Check out Power DVD 8

Until Next time

Peter – Your PowerDVD Guide

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.

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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