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If you purchase a DVD or Blu-ray internal optical drive for your desktop, chances are it comes bundled with PowerDVD from Cyberlink. The company's media playback software has been popular in both desktop and laptop PCs running Windows.
On Thursday, however, CyberLink announced to extend the realm to support Netbooks and Nettops--the budget laptop and desktop computers designed to run the Linux operating system. The new Linux software applications include PowerDVD Linux and PowerCinema Linux.
PowerDVD Linux is derived from Cyberlink's movie player, PowerDVD, and supports DVD Video playback with menu navigation, subtitles, and video rewind and fast-forward. PowerDVD Linux incorporates CyberLink TrueTheaterT Lighting for automatic video lighting enhancement, and support for CyberLink TrueTheaterT Surround and Dolby audio technology.
CyberLink PowerCinema Linux, on the other hand, is an all-in-one media player for the Linux operating system that can handle DVDs, video files, music files, photos, and even manage portable and plug-in devices. The application supports a wide range of video formats, including ASF, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DAT, and AVI.
The two new applications will be made available via OEM licensing. Currently, it's unclear if they will be available in retail versions.
BD-Live allows for much more than just watching the movie. Like remixing your movies getting more interactive online information relating to them.
(Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET Networks)A couple of days ago I blogged about two new optical drives from Plextor that, besides many other things, can play both HD DVD and Blu-ray media. That's obviously cool, but this level of coolness always depends a lot on the software player. In my opinion, CyberLink's PowerDVD has always been one of the coolest, and most versatile playback applications. Today, it got even more versatile.
CyberLink's PowerDVD has been one of the best media playback applications on the market.
(Credit: CyberLink)CyberLink announced Tuesday that their all new PowerDVD 8.0 Ultra will support the latest Blu-ray BD Profile 2.0 (aka BD-Live). For those of you who don't know what it means, BD-Live is a Blu-ray format that enables interactive online activities, such as multiplayer gaming, e-commerce, downloading movie trailers and subtitles, and social networking. In short, the new profile will let you have a lot more fun than just watching the movie.
At the moment, though, there's no Blu-ray movie on the market that support BD-Live. (They only support profile 1.1 or BD-J). Rumor has it, however, the first one coming out with this feature is Men in Black and it will be available in June.
Aside from the all new cool BD-Live, CyberLink's PowerDVD 8.0 Ultra also supports next-generation disc features, such as picture-in-picture, networking, interactive BD-J, bookmarks, and advanced disc navigation. Audiowise, the player has support for Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD. The player is also optimized to work well with nVidia, ATI, and Intel graphic cards.
You can purchase PowerDVD 8.0 Ultra now for about $100 at CyberLink's Web site, but the BD-Live feature will need another 2 weeks or so to be ready. It will be available then as a free update.
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