14 DAY TRIAL // CyberLink Corporation, provider of innovative products for enhanced media solutions, announced on Wednesday the launch of version 10 for its CyberLink PowerDVD, a popular multimedia player for Windows-powered computers, which has managed to impress customers by delivering amazing playback experience due to various TrueTheater technologies.
This release of the company's flagship product adapts to the latest developments in the field of technology and brings Full HD and 3D Blu-ray playback, therefore leveraging the way users enjoy their 3D DVDs and videos. Furthermore, the new version comes with optimized TrueTheater HD, designed to make use of the latest CPU/GPU acceleration technologies and to upscale DVD movies and regular videos to HD quality.
In addition, PowerDVD 10 will offer customers not only the possibility to play Full HD Blu-ray movies, but also the chance to use a wide range of innovative media-enhancing TrueTheater technologies: TrueTheater 3D, TrueTheater HD, TrueTheater Noise Reduction, and TrueTheater Stabilizer.
In order to emphasize the importance of the latest PowerDVD version, CyberLink CEO’s, Alice H. Chang, stated that “We’re not just talking about an incremental shift in quality; PowerDVD 10 represents a new era of media entertainment, offering the best 3D and HD experience you can enjoy on the PC. We’ve upgraded playback quality for video files and music too, turning PowerDVD 10 into a unique universal player that enhances the visual and auditory experience for all kinds of media.”
Another novelty brought by version 10 of CyberLink's product is the fact that it enables users to bookmark, write and share movie reviews, and to comment on the existing bookmarks of a certain movie scene. Also, PowerDVD 10 enables users to post live comments on Facebook, Twitter and MoovieLive.com, or to access the most recent trailers or movie information.
CyberLink PowerDVD 10 provides high-performance features when it comes to the playback of Blu-ray movies in 3D and DVD discs in 3D and HD on the PC: · Brilliant Blu-ray 3D, including comprehensive support for various 3D playback hardware, ensures exceptional playback quality for the soon-to-be-released Blu-ray 3D format (a free “Mark II” upgrade will be made available to existing PowerDVD 10 Ultra users to enable Blu-ray 3D features). · Improved optimization for Intel Core Family Processors, NVIDIA CUDA and ATI Stream, delivers smooth playback for high-definition content by leveraging the power of the latest hardware acceleration technology. · Lossless HD audio, including support for HDMI 1.3a, offers pure 8-channel Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD audio via a single cable. · Fast Blu-ray loading enables consumers to access their Blu-ray movies on the PC up to four times faster. · Advanced Cyberlink TrueTheater 3D technology lets consumers transform their existing 2D DVD content into a 3D experience. · HD upscaling for DVDs, using CyberLink TrueTheater HD technology, sharpens the image quality of standard definition content for playback on high-definition TVs and monitors.
Moreover, the new technologies included in the latest release of PowerDVD also feature TrueTheater Surround for music meant to permit anyone to adjust the playback parameters according to their specific home theater hardware and preferences. Needless to say, the software provides support for the most common video formats, ranging from MOV, FLV and QT to MKV, RM, RMVB and 3GPP, and will also enable playlist creation for both video and audio files.
A rather predictable upgrade for PowerDVD is that it can be seamlessly operated when running Windows 7, especially due to its touch support, Ambient Light and the OS-specific music library.
Besides the fact that PowerDVD 10 is localized in the most widely spread languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, both Simplified and Traditional, Japanese, and Korean), its boxed versions will also be available for purchase worldwide. The prices for this product range from $49.95 for the Standard edition to $69.95 for the Deluxe one and to $99.95 for the most feature-packed version, Ultra 3D, while the upgrades start at $29.95.
PowerDVD 10 can be downloaded as a trial version from Softpedia via this link.