CyberLink announced this morning that PowerDirector 7 has been optimized for Intel's new Core i7 processor. With these optimizations, CyberLink claims that they've achieved a 112% performance gain in overall HD video editing performance.

CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), an innovative solution provider for the connected digital lifestyle, announced today that CyberLink PowerDirector 7, the HD video editing software, is optimized for Intel's latest quad-core Core i7 "Nehalem" microprocessor to boost overall performance gain in HD video editing performance.

CyberLink PowerDirector 7 optimized for Intel® Core™ i7 processor-based PCs, achieves 112% of performance gain in overall HD video editing performance, from previewing, rendering to burning to a DVD or Blu-ray Disc. As a HD video editing solution, PowerDirector 7 takes great advantage of Intel Core i7 platform features such as Simulate Multi Threading(SMT) technology, triple-channel DDR3 and Intel® QuickPath technology to boost its performance, while the 8MB L3 cache further speeds up its memory access speed.

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Pegasys, Inc. (http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com), the company that makes digital video easy, has added more video format compatibility with popular digital devices such as the latest iPod Nano® (4th generation), iPhone® 3G and Sony Walkman® to its TMPGEnc MovieStyle software. The new update allows users to easily convert video clips from one format to another for use on popular portable digital devices to full HD devices such as the Playstation 3. The update is free to download for current registered users. A free trial download and the updated full version for $39.95 per license are also now available at www.tmpg-inc.com.

Now users can drag and drop video to play in many popular digital devices, such as the latest iPod Nano®, the popular iPhone® 3G, Sony’s video Walkman®, Nintendo® Wii™, Playstation® 3 and much more. MovieStyle allows users of any age to quickly and easily convert video clips for these devices without any prior video encoding knowledge.

TMPGEnc MovieStyle converts video clips to portable and high definition formats compatible with popular digital devices, including: iPod®/iPhone®/iPod Nano®, Apple® TV, Sony® mylo™ COM-2, PSP™, Playstation® 3, Sony Walkman®, Zune™, Xbox 360™, Nintendo DS™ with PLAY-YAN, Nintendo® Wii™, PDA's with Windows Media Player, and DivX®.

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CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), an innovative solutions provider for the connected digital lifestyle, today launched CyberLink PowerCinema 6, a software solution that enables users to turn a home PC into a high-definition TV and multimedia entertainment center.

PowerCinema 6 offers features for enjoying TV, photos, videos, music, movie DVDs, and radio. With scheduled TV recording, support for high-definition digital TV, and easy channel management, PowerCinema 6 lets users access HDTV programming directly on their PC.

"PowerCinema offers an all-in-one solution for enjoying TV, movie DVDs, music, and user-generated content," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. "Now with support for high-definition TV, CyberLink PowerCinema 6 is also a perfect way to extend the functionality of the home desktop or notebook PC into a personal video recorder."

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CyberLink Corporation (5203.TW), an innovative solutions provider for the connected digital lifestyle, announces today that its HD video editing software CyberLink PowerDirector 7— optimized with NVIDIA® CUDA™ Technology is now available on CyberLink’s online store. Existing PowerDirector 7 users can download an update for free to enhance their HD video editing experience.

CyberLink PowerDirector 7 delivers up to five-times faster video previewing and rendering performance by using NVIDIA CUDA technology to utilize the power of the NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs).   CyberLink PowerDirector supports CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GeForce®, NVIDIA Quadro® and NVIDIA Tesla™ graphics solutions. Applied with advanced video effects, the new version of PowerDirector 7 provides an improved user experience in HD video processing by dramatically reducing video processing time and lowering CPU utilization.

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Pegasys, Inc. announced today that its TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 software will be available for purchase on November 13th. This all-in-one media authoring solution offers a number of new features including Blu-Ray, DVD, and DivX Ultra authoring, AVCHD file import, fast HD video editing, slideshow creation and support for 5.1 Dolby Digital audio.

Pegasys, Inc. (http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com), the company that makes digital video easy, announces the upcoming availability of its TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 software. It's the perfect, all-in-one media authoring solution for any video enthusiast. It is easy enough for a beginner to understand, and sophisticated enough to meet the demands of an experienced videographer. The U.S. release date is scheduled for November 13th, 2008. As a special promotion, users that purchase TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 between now and November 13th can purchase TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 for only $10.00.

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cyberlink dvd suite 7.jpgCyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), an innovative solutions provider for the connected digital lifestyle, today launched CyberLink DVD Suite 7, a complete package of CyberLink's best multimedia software, and the only suite in its category to include playback features for enjoying Blu-ray Disc Disc movies on the PC.

DVD Suite 7 offers powerful but easy-to-use features, allowing playback of movies, media management, creation of videos and slideshows, burning and backup of data; just to name a few of the many multimedia functions that users can access via the versatile PowerStarter task integrator.

"DVD Suite 7 represents the ultimate collection of our leading software," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. "Not only do we provide Blu-ray playback, support for HD video capturing, editing, authoring, burning, and sharing, our online communities offer unlimited resources and new ways for customers to express their creativity. Add to that new media management tools for cataloging and sharing photos and videos, and you can say it really doesn’t get much better than this."

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SlySoft has released a new version of its AnyDVD software. Along with the usual fixes and updates, AnyDVD (HD) 6.4.7.9 supports the latest version of the BD+ copy protection, removes region locks from menusand gives the option to disable BD-Live.

6.4.7.9 2008 10 31
- New (DVD): Added support for new protections
- New (Blu-ray): Added option to disable BD-Live
- New (Blu-ray): Added removal of region locks from menus
- New (Blu-ray): Added support for new version of the BD+ copy protection
- Fix (Blu-ray): Playback issues with ArcSoft TMT
- Fix (Blu-ray): Issues with some titles, e.g. "American Gangster"
- Some minor fixes and improvements
- Updated languages

If you want to check out the latest version of AnyDVD, it can be downloaded from SlySoft's website.

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Pegasys, Inc. has announced the retail release of TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Video Encoder with NVIDIA CUDA technology. By incorporating CUDA technology, Pegasys has been able to offload the video decoding and filtering processes onto the GPU, increasing the performance of the software by as much as 446%.

TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress - Convert one format to another, cut-edit and more!Pegasys, Inc. announced today that the complete retail version of the new TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Video Encoder with NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology is now available for purchase via www.tmpg-inc.com. The new NVIDIA CUDA technology offloads much of the processing required for TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress from the CPU to the graphics-processing unit (GPU). The software shows up to a 446% performance increase over the CPU-only version. System performance may vary with the user’s computing environment.

The future of video processing is here. Pegasys incorporated CUDA technology for filter processing into its popular video encoding software, TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress. Users can now tap into the graphics processing power that CUDA technology offers by offloading the video decoding and filtering processes onto the GPU to prevent the CPU from slowing down from too much data to quickly process. Pegasys is also working with NVIDIA to expand the GPU’s processing power to include encoding functions in the future.

NVIDIA’s CUDA technology is the world’s only C language environment for the GPU. It enables programmers and developers to create software for quickly solving complicated computation problems using GPU multicore parallel processing capabilities. The latest generation of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs offers up to 240 processor cores, compared to a maximum of the four cores found on high-end CPU’s. Any process that can be divided into multiple elements and run in parallel can be programmed to take advantage of the massive processing potential of the GPU.

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CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), innovative solution provider for the connected digital lifestyle, today announced the release of CyberLink Media Server 2 and CyberLink SoftDMA 2, home networking applications for remotely accessing and sharing high-definition videos, photos, and music throughout the digital home.

Media Server turns a home PC into a network server for digital video, photo, and music content, which can be accessed and played by media players—such as SoftDMA—that are connected across a DLNA/UPnP network. Media Server, which is certified for the DLNA 1.5 logo, supports file transcoding, features admission controls, and includes quality of service (QoS) technology for optimizing playback quality.

SoftDMA allows the streaming of digital video, photo, and music content by automatically locating media servers connected to a user’s network. New features allow the downloading of files across a network to the local hard drive, as well as the playback of high-definition content.

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nero liquidtv.jpgNero, creators of liquid media technology, and TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), announced today the unveiling of Nero LiquidTV | TiVo PC. This new offering revolutionizes the way consumers experience television by offering an enhanced TiVo DVR experience directly from the PC.

"In recent years the amount of digital entertainment content available to average consumers has exploded," said Bruce McGregor, senior analyst, Digital Home Services for Current Analysis. "Consumers have increasingly conformed to using mobile devices and the PC as sources of video entertainment; as a result they are looking for ways to port their favorite television content onto multiple mobile formats. There is an emerging opportunity for a PC-based DVR service that offers easy access to television content on a wide variety of devices."

With Nero LiquidTV | TiVo PC, consumers can watch and pause live TV on their desktop, record their favorite shows directly to their hard drive, transfer shows between computers throughout the home, or enjoy their favorite shows on-the-go by exporting them to iPod®, PlayStation® Portable (PSP®), or burning them to DVD. Now the TiVo experience can be enjoyed on the PC, including TiVo features like WishList® searches, Season Pass® recordings, TiVo KidZone, and TiVo Suggestions.

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