Power DVD Ultra

The Best Blu-ray/DVD Player Software Today

World-renowned PowerDVD 9 delivers outstanding Blu-ray and DVD movie playback quality on your PC.

• NEW Unparalleled HD movie experience: The best video quality today with incomparable support for all HD video formats like AVCHD, AVCREC, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), MPEG-2 HD and WMV-HD
• NEW HDMI 1.3 Support: HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) simultaneously transfers 8 channels of audio over a single cable
• NEW PC friendly: Play your HD movies on high or low spec CPUs.
• High-Def Home Theater Audio: Supports Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD

TrueTheater Technology for your DVDs

Maximize the DVD experience with 2 new TrueTheater technologies:

• NEW CyberLink TrueTheater HD: Presents movies the way they were meant to be, in picture-perfect quality on your HDTV. Utilizing an advanced upscaling algorithm...
• NEW CyberLink TrueTheater Motion: By utilizing a frame rate upconversion technology, TrueTheater™ provides a smoother, judder-free playback...
• Don't forget about TrueTheater Stretch, Lighting, etc.

Smart Navigation

Explore your favorite movies with cool and exciting smart features including two new innovations that make the PowerDVD movie experience even more memorable
—FancyView for animated browsing and the Cinema playback mode tailored for home theater environments.

• NEW FancyView navigates in an animated fashion: FancyView introduces an entirely unique perspective when you are browsing movie titles, chapters, and special features. Learn more
• NEW Cinema playback mode: Switch seamlessly between playback modes for larger displays, easier remote control operation, and enable
• Blu-ray playback in Microsoft Windows Media Center...

Features for Movie Fans

If you love watching movies, then PowerDVD 9's Movie Collection feature is perfect Fantastic features for movie fans, start building your own movie library with PowerDVD—still consumer's favorite playback software. Get connected to other PowerDVD users via MoovieLive and share your reviews and comments.
for amassing tons ofmovie facts & figures, trivia, reviews & ratings, and lots more. Then, upload it to the world by sharing on MoovieLive, the global community where PowerDVD users reside.

• Movie Collection: Often imitated, never duplicated, start your own today and watch it thrive with the more movies watched
• MoovieLive Celluloid Community: PowerDVD users favorite web site, instantly share your recommendations and thoughts after synchronizing your movie collection to your MoovieLive account. Get connected and make busloads of new friends!

Features :

Blu-ray PlayBack :

Spectacular High-Definition Playback on your PC :

• TrueTheater Technology for maximizing your DVD Playback: Just when you thought DVD movie quality couldn't get any better, incomparable Blu-ray/DVD playback software, PowerDVD, introduces TrueTheater technology that radically enhances your viewing pleasure..
• Watch Blu-ray movies like never before: Enjoy the best video quality and an enriched movie experience with interactive features and next-gen movie navigation. Display advanced content such as crew commentaries and access online content and games.
• Play more HD video formats like MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), MPEG-2 HD, WMV-HD, and SMPTE VC-1 files with PowerDVD; redefining the high-definition landscape in movie experiences.
• PC friendly for enjoying smooth high-definition playback on both powerful or energy-efficient computers or notebooks! PowerDVD ensures the best quality for playing all your favorite movies on any type of home PC: desktop or notebook. This way, you are guaranteed a high-definition experience on a variety of hardware platforms.

Blu-ray Disc Interaction :

• The new universe of Blu-ray Discs not only delivers the best video quality ever, but innovative ways of interacting with the movie itself.
• Explore your favorite Blu-ray movies: animated menus, web-enabled features like downloading trailers, instant messaging functions, uploading videos, and lots more with BD-Live and Bonus View.

High-Definition Home Theater Audio :
PowerDVD 9 envelopes you with lossless high-definition audio, bringing movies to life in your living room.

• New support for HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) 1.3 allows simultaneous lossless transference of high-definition audio using one hassle-free cable.
• TrueTheater Surround imitates a multichannel surround sound for conventional stereo speakers and headphones while providing audio expansion and effects for up to 8-channel audio systems. For more information on other TrueTheater technologies.
• Check out below the vast array of supported audio formats & audio technologies

Supported Audio Formats :

• DTS-HD
• Dolby TrueHD (7.1-channel)
• Dolby Digital EX (7.1-channel)
• Dolby Digital Plus (7.1-channel)

Supported Audio Technologies :

• CyberLink TrueTheater Surround
• Dolby Pro Logic IIx surround sound
• Dolby Virtual Speaker
• Dolby Headphone

TrueTheater for Maximizing DVD Playback :
PowerDVD 9, the world's #1 DVD playback software, introduces TrueTheater technology that radically enhances your viewing pleasure:

NEW TrueTheater HD : Presents movies the way they were meant to be, in picture-perfect quality on your HDTV. Utilizing a sophisticated upscaling algorithm, TrueTheater HD delivers a sharper, artifact-free image when converting low to high resolution.

NEW TrueTheater Motion : By utilizing a frame rate upconversion technology, TrueTheater Motion provides a smoother, judder-free playback proving most advantageous on systems with hyper-threading technology and dual-core CPUs.

TrueTheater Stretch : Nowadays often video sources don't match the displays they are being viewed on. With TrueTheater Stretch technology, you can display aspect ratios 16:9 (widescreen) and 4:3 (letterbox) videos more naturally with preset and customized settings.

TrueTheater Lighting : To alleviate inadequately lit movie scenes or monitors, TrueTheater Lighting enhances image details and naturalizes colors with adaptive adjustments to chroma and luminance. Select your preferred profile for invigorating your movie experience with powerful effects, bringing a richer, brighter, and clearer picture.

TrueTheater Surround : Imitates a multichannel surround sound for conventional stereo speakers and headphones while providing audio expansion and effects up to 8-channel audio systems. Prepare to immerse yourself in an audio wonderland with PowerDVD 9.


Features for Movie Fans :
Organize your entire movie information with PowerDVD's Movie Collection simply by entering and updating data as you watch movies. Now collect Blu-ray movies along with your DVDs! Then, connect to the PowerDVD movie haven and everybody's favorite movies web site, MoovieLive, to share your database information with old & new friends!

• NEW The devil is in the (Blu-ray) movie details: Enter data for the director, scriptwriter, cast, and even publishing date and promotional slogans for both Blu-ray and DVD movies! Become a movie connoisseur today.
• Instant PowerDVD factoids: Check out how the rest of the PowerDVD community have interacted with your most favorite movies in the form of reviews written, DVD owners, times the DVD has been viewed, and number of movie remixes.
• Rate your movies: You can rate a movie right after it's complete and then compare it to the global rating.
• Critical Movie Reviews: Express your heartfelt comments and thoughts about the movies that have touched you.

Smart Navigation :
Still the ultimate movie experience, Blu-ray/DVD playback software PowerDVD 9 puts the wow in the way you explore your movie collection. Say goodbye to slowly browsing scene thumbnails, and say hello to FancyView, the new animated browsing mode for your DVD titles and Movie Collection.

NEW FancyView navigates in an animated fashion
Make your PowerDVD 9 file searches more exciting with FancyView, an entirely unique perspective when browsing for movie titles, chapters, and special features.

How about an out-of-this-world browsing feature for a purely visual search? When you are watching a DVD movie, you have the luxury of browsing DVD chapters visually! During resume play, FancyView is also an alternative and exciting option. Also, FancyView is available during the Cinema playback mode. Finding movies might just turn out to be as fun as the movie itself.


NEW Cinema Playback Mode
Today's PC has an expanding role in everyone's life, especially in living rooms where it might be the centerpiece of your entertainment center. PowerDVD 9's new playback mode, Cinema (as opposed to the default Classic), lets you seamlessly switch between viewing modes for larger displays and easier remote control operation.

When using Microsoft Windows Media Center, Cinema enables Blu-ray playback. Cinema also supports remote control colored keys during Blu-ray movies playback.


Remix Your Movies
Think you can do better than the major movie studio bigwigs? Jump right in with PowerDVD by creating your OWN movie remixes for explosive box office hits or all-time classics.
You're the Executive Producer :

1. Bookmark scenes: Select scenes in your remix by pinpointing start and end points. Create as many scenes as you want.
2. Add animated graphics: Overlay images and apply a path for dexterous movement with the object of your choice.
3. Personalize subtitles: Write your own dialogs with customizable subtitles! Choose fonts, colors and shading. Place your subtitles wherever you feel the need.
4. Record voiceover soundtracks: Mute the original soundtrack and record your own!
5. Screen your own remixes: Insert the original DVD in your drive and watch your own cut. Chances are, you'll revel at your own production, so imagine the reception when you share it with your friends and worldwide users on MoovieLive!

TrueTheater Technology and FancyView Navigation :

PowerDVD 9 features TrueTheater technology that enhances the quality of DVD playback. Animated navigation mode FancyView offers a fun way to browse your Movie Collection and movie chapters.

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Hardware Support List

Graphics Cards :

Intel:

• 965, G33, G35, G45 graphics software decoder (Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66 GHz) / • AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 (2.8 GHz) or above is recommended)
• Recommended driver version: 15.8 or later
• Video RAM: memory requires 256 MB or above

NVIDIA:

• Minimum: GeForce 7600 GT, GeForce 7800 GTX 512, GeForce 7900 GX2, GeForce 7900 GTX, GeForce 7950 GX2,
• Recommended: GeForce 8400 series, GeForce 8500 series, GeForce 8600 series, GeForce 8800 series, GeForce 9400 series, GeForce 9600 series, GeForce 9800 series, GeForce GTX 260 series, GeForce GTX 280 series, GeForce GTX 290 series
• Recommended driver version: 174.53 or later
• Video RAM: Graphics card memory requires 256 MB or above.

ATI :

• Minimum: ATI Radeon X1600 series, X1800 series, X1900 series
• Recommended: ATI Radeon HD 2400, 2600, 2900, 3400, 3600, 3800, 4600 Series, and 4800 Series,
• Recommended driver version: 8.44 or later

HD Audio Compatible Sound Card and Codec List

• Realtek ALC885 (support up to 192kHz/24bit 2-channels or 96kHz/24bit 4-8 channels)
• Realtek ALC889 (support up to 192kHz/24bit 2-channels or 96kHz/24bit 4-8 channels)
• VIA Vinyl VT1818S codec (support up to 192kHz/24bit 8-channels)
• VIA Vinyl VT1828S codec (support up to 192kHz/24bit 8-channels)
• Auzentech X-Fi HomeTheater HD (supports HDMI 1.3a bit-stream lossless pass-through—available soon from partner Auzentech)

System Requirements

The system requirements for the world's best Blu-ray/DVD playback software, CyberLink PowerDVD vary depending on the operating system installed on your machine (Windows 7, Vista or XP). Please consult the system requirements below that match your version of Windows.

PowerDVD 9 optimizes performance by selecting the appropriate video de-interlacing algorithm for the available processing power. CyberLink PowerDVD maintains its support for processors below 1.6 GHz by ensuring that TrueTheater Lighting technology will be turned off by default. CyberLink PowerDVD's advanced audio and video technologies function better when used with processors above 2.4 GHz.

WINDOWS 7 & VISTA For Blu-ray Disc Playback

CPU Minimum Requirements

Intel :

• Pentium 4 541 (3.2 GHz)
• Pentium D 840 (3.2 GHz)
• Pentium D 930 (3.0 GHz), 935 3.2GHz or 940 (3.2 GHz)
• Core Duo T2400 (1.83 GHz)
• Pentium M 755 (2.0 GHz)
• Core 2 Duo E4300 (1.8 GHz) or T5600 (1.83 GHz)

AMD :

• Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2 GHz) or 4000+ (2 GHz)
• Turion 64 X2 TL-50 (1.6 GHz)
• TL-52 (1.6 GHz) or TL-56 (1.8 GHz)

System Memory (RAM)

• 1 GB or above is recommended.

Disc Drive

• Super Multi Blue combo disc drive.
• BD-ROM/BD-RE.

Graphics Cards (GPU)

Intel

• 965, G33, G35, G45 graphics software decoder (Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66GHz) / AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 (2.8GHz) or above is recommended).
• Recommended driver version: 15.8 or later.
• Video RAM: memory requires 256MB or above.

NVIDIA

• Minimum: GeForce 7600 GT, GeForce 7800 GTX 512, GeForce 7900 GX2, GeForce 7900 GTX, GeForce 7950 GX2.
• Recommended: GeForce 8400 series, GeForce 8500 series, GeForce 8600 series, GeForce 8800 series, GeForce 9400 series, GeForce 9600 series, GeForce 9800 series, GeForce GTX280.
• Recommended driver version: 174.53 or later.
• Video RAM: graphics card memory requires 256MB or above.

ATI

• Minimum: ATI Radeon X1600 series, X1800 series, X1900 series.
• Recommended: ATI Radeon HD 2400, 2600, 2900 series, ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 3400, 3600, 3800 Series, ATI HD 4600 Series, ATI HD 4800 Series.
• Recommended driver version: 8.44 or later.
• Video RAM: graphics card memory requires 256 MB or above.

Note: we strongly recommend that you update your graphics card driver to the latest version.

Display Devices

• HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) compliant display for digital output.
• TV or computer monitor for analog output.

WINDOWS 7 & VISTA For DVD Playback CPU

Intel

• Minimum: Pentium 4 (2.4 GHz)
• Recommended: Pentium 4 (3.0 GHz) or above

AMD

• Minimum: Sempron 2600+ (1.6 GHz).
• Recommended: Athlon 64 2800+ (1.8 GHz) or above.

System Memory (RAM) : 512 MB or above.

Display Devices : TV or computer monitor for digital/analog output.

Disc Drive : DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R/RW, DVD Dual, DVDMulti, or a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive with 1394, USB2.0, ATAPI, SCSI, or CardBus interface.

Graphic Card (GPU) : AGP or PCI Express graphic accelerator supporting DirectX 9.0.