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CyberLink PowerProducer 2 Gold Burns Competition
With Full Range of Recordable DVD Formats
A hassle-free DVD creation tool for converting photos
and videos into slideshows and movies

CyberLink Corp., a leading developer of digital video software and training solutions, today launched PowerProducer 2 Gold, a special edition that provides comprehensive support for multiple video formats including DVD+/-VR and DVD-Video, as well as output formats such as DivX, VCD, SVCD and DVD, and multiple disc formats including DVD-RAM, CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW.

Targeted at consumers, PowerProducer 2 Gold features an easy-to-use interface for producing movies and photos into stunning DVDs and CDs. PowerProducer 2 Gold supports all major disc formats, allows detailed chapter creation, and expanded Right-to-Disc? recording technology.

"With this Gold edition of PowerProducer 2, users get a truly worry-free environment for authoring entertaining movies and slideshows. And with our extensive support for multiple DVD formats, users can be sure that their discs are compatible with the equipment of friends and family. Their movies and slideshows will play on any standalone DVD player," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink.

New features in this edition includes:

• Supports All CD and DVD Writable Formats
  Additional support for DVD-RAM makes PowerProducer 2 Gold a universal solution for movie making, supporting DVD-RAM, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW, as well as 1.4 GB mini-DVD-RAM for DVD Camcorders
• Comprehensive support for DVD-VR
  a. Import/output format:
  Users can import or output their favorite video in DVD-VR format.
  b. Play list authoring:
  Users can produce a DVD-VR disc with play lists of their favorite sequences.
  c. Compatible with most popular DVD recorders which supports DVD-VR
• Motion Menus
  Users can import their own video, or select from pre-designed videos for creating stylish moving menu backgrounds.
• Expanded Right-to-Disc™ Recording Technology
  Allows users to record video directly from a TV, PC Camera, VCR or DV camcorder to DVD, without the need to write to a hard drive buffer first. Reduces large hard disk requirements. Right-to-disc related technology is easy to apply with video formats such as DVD+VR and DVD-RV, and disc formats such as DVD+RW and DVD-RW among the DVD authoring products in the market. However, PowerProducer 2 Gold provides unique format support for DVD+R and DVD-R disc formats and DVD-Video, thus offering broader format support than other products on the market
• Streaming Rendering
  Avoids unnecessary buffering of source video to a DVD folder on the user's computer. PowerProducer 2 Gold enables faster movie rendering/output while also saving valuable disk space by up to 50%. The Streaming Rendering technology renders on the fly so that videos can go directly to the burning process.
• CyberLink's Accu-Chapter Technology
  Improves user's control over the accuracy of video chapter points, especially useful for removing unwanted commercials from recorded TV programs.
• More Audio Support
  Audio can now be encoded in MPEG-Audio and Dolby Digital.
• Expanded Disc Utilities
  Provides complete tools for users to manage their discs. Disc Defragmentation allows users to store data on their discs more efficiently. Users can copy both CDs and non-CSS protected DVDs, as well as erase them too. DVD-VR discs can be converted into DVD-Video format for better compatibility.

Availability:

Online purchasing is now available at http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/cyberstore/cyberstore.jsp
SRP at US$ 69.95 and Special Promotion Price at US$ 49.95
Retail boxed version:
Will be available worldwide in March, 2004.
OEM versions:
Various versions with different function sets will also be provided to meet the demands of hardware suppliers

Product Photo and information:
Box shot can be downloaded at http://www.gocyberlink.com/eng/press_room/photo_archive.jsp
Detail product information can be found at
http://www.cyberlink.com.tw/english/products/product_main.jsp?ProdId=54&ProdVerId=72

About CyberLink Corp.

Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corp. is a world leader and pioneer in bringing advanced digital video and audio software applications to market. The products are categorized into two major lines: Digital Multimedia Solutions and Training Solutions. Digital Multimedia Solutions includes Media Creation Products focusing on media creation by advancing technologies to capture, edit, author and record all types of media, and Digital Entertainment products providing high quality media enjoyment on the PC by perfecting state-of-the-art audio-video technologies. These award-winning software applications are ideal solutions for turning today's mainstream computers into home theaters and digital video centers.. CyberLink's worldwide headquarters are in Taipei. www.goCyberlink.com

Source: CyberLink