CyberLink sent out a press release this morning, announcing that its PowerDVD, PowerDirector And Power2Go software is now certified for Windows Vista.
CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a world leader in digital home solutions, today announced movie playback software CyberLink PowerDVD, video editing software PowerDirector, and data burning software Power2Go, are certified for Windows Vista.

"CyberLink PowerDVD, PowerDirector, and Power2Go are ready for the transition to Windows Vista, allowing users continue to enjoy the quality and performance they have come to expect from these leading applications," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. "By completing the certification process for Windows Vista, we ensure that our customers and partners can enjoy consistent performance on the new operating system."
Vista certified versions of PowerDVD, PowerDirector and Power2Go will be available online in January of 2007. More information can be found on CyberLink's website. Add a comment
CyberLink has announced the launch of PowerDVD Ultra. This long awaited version of their PowerDVD software supports HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc playback on leading drives, including the Xbox 360's external HD DVD-ROM drive.
CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a world leader in digital home solutions, today launched the HD DVD and Blu-ray version of its industry-defining movie player software, PowerDVD. Featuring optimized hardware acceleration for graphics processors, and compatibility with leading HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc drives, PowerDVD Ultra delivers the ultimate high-definition movie experience on both desktop and notebook computers.
PowerDVD Ultra is available now for USD 99.95/Euro 99,95. More information, including a list of new features, can be found on CyberLink's website. Add a comment
NCH Swift Sound has announced a new version of its ExpressBurn software. According to their press release, ExpressBurn v3.00 supports Blu-ray and HD-DVD and is Windows Vista compatible.
NCH Swift Sound, specialists in business and audio software, announced the release of ExpressBurn v3.00 with Blu-ray and HD-DVD support.

"We have made the leap into Blu-ray technology even though it is still emerging and pricing for hardware is currently restrictive for the average consumer," said Stephanie Lee, sales manager for the Canberra based company. "The data storage capacity that Blu-ray allows for was the main reason to support it now rather than later. It compliments our range of applications such as our PC based call and radio logging application, VRS, because of the ability to archive an enormous amount of audio recordings on the one disk."

ExpressBurn v3.00 supports both single and duel layer disks with write and re-write capabilities (BD-R, BD-RE, BD-R DL, BD-RE DL) as well as Data HD-DVD, DVD and Audio/Data CDs. Using proprietary optimizing systems it is one of the fastest CD/DVD/Blu-ray writing programs in the world.
ExpressBurn v3.00 is available now and can be purchased directly from NCH for $27US. More information can be found here. Add a comment
MadZ Software has announced the release of their new DVD backup software, Clone DVD Pro 1.0. Here's part of their press release:
MadZ Software announces the release of version 1.0 of its Clone DVD Pro software. Clone DVD Pro 1.0 makes backup copies of your favorite DVDs.

With Clone DVD Pro, you can quickly and easily copy almost all DVDs including original DVDs, DVD copies, even downloaded DVDs. You can choose which titles and chapters are copied and even preview them prior to copying. Also, you can rip DVDs to create DVD Video_TS folders or DVD ISO/UDF image files on your computer hard drive, and you can burn existing Video_TS folders or ISO/UDF image files from your hard drive to DVDs.
It's going to be interesting to see who sues MadZ Software first. The name Clone DVD Pro is a bit too similar to Slysoft's CloneDVD software. And, with its ability to backup CSS protected discs, the MPAA probably won't be too happy either. If you'd like to read more, MadZ Software's entire announcement can be found here. Add a comment
Sonic has announced that they've developed a DVD burning plug-in for SnapStream's Beyond TV software. With this new plug-in, Beyond TV users can now record shows to disc complete with menus, content titles, and chapter points.
Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, today announced that SnapStream, a leading developer of digital home products, has chosen Sonic's comprehensive authoring, encoding, and formatting engine, AuthorScript to bring DVD burning capabilities to Beyond TV, the company's award-winning PC Digital Video Recorder (DVR) application. Available now, the optional DVD-burning plug-in enables Beyond TV owners to author DVDs of saved TV shows for playback on a broad range of set-top DVD players. This latest agreement reinforces the versatility of AuthorScript, which was also selected recently to enable DVD recording features in Windows Vista and high-quality DVD playback in a future version of Nintendo's Wii gaming console.
This plug-in is available now and comes as part of Beyond TV 4.5. If you'd like to read more, Sonic's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment