CyberLink PowerDVD 8 offers complete multi-channel (4/6/7/, S/PDIF and HDMI sound device support, including (but not limited to) devices from Analog Devices, Aureal, Creative, Cirrus/Crystal, CMedia, ESS, Fortemedia, KCTech, Philips/VLSI, Realtek, IDT, SiS, TI, Yamaha, VIA, and any other sound device that supports the Microsoft WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE interface.
CyberLink PowerDVD 8 supports Microsoft DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) in display chips or integrated chipsets from Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, SiS, and VIA/S3. Acceleration functions include Entropy Decode, Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform, Hardware Motion Compensation and Subpicture Alpha Blending units.
CyberLink PowerDVD 8 is fully optimized for multimedia instruction sets, such as AMD 3D Now! Professional, Enhanced 3D Now!, 3DNow!, Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions 2/3/4 (SSE/2/3/4), MMX, the Hyper-Threading technology, dual-core and quar-core CPU supported. CyberLink PowerDVD 8 is compatible with new DVD-RAM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+RW, DVD-Multi, DVD-Dual, DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drives, BD-ROM drives with IEEE 1394, USB 2.0, ATAPI, SCSI or CardBus interface, as long as the drive conforms to the SFF8090 command set and SBP-2 (if applicable).
CyberLink PowerDVD 8 is compatible with all Centrino, Socket 478, Socket 423, Socket 370, Slot 1, Socket A and Slot A chipsets from Intel, VIA, SiS, ALi, NVIDIA, and AMD. The features for hardware deinterlace and "Read it clearly" may need updated drivers to support them. If you find problems when using these features, please update your drivers to latest version and then try again.
What is New in CyberLink PowerDVD 8
Audio
- Dolby Digital Plus - New! - Dolby TrueHD - New! - DTS-HD
- DTS-ES - DTS Neo:6 (Discrete, Matrix) - DTS 96/24 - AAC 5.1 Channel support
- DTS - Dolby Digital 5.1 - Dolby Digital EX - Dolby Pro Logic IIx - Dolby Headphone
- Dolby Virtual Speaker - TrueTheater - Surround (Multi-channel Environment Impression Mode)
- TrueTheater - Surround (Virtual Speaker Mode) - TrueTheater - Surround (Headphone Mode)
- MLP lossless - SRS TruSurroundXT - Pitch scaling technology
- Audio equalizer presets - Audio visualizations - Direct 96/24 output - MP3, WAV
Video
- SMPTE VC-1 High-Definition Video - MPEG4 AVC (H.264) High-Definition Video
- TrueTheater - Lighting (Adaptive lighting for video quality enhancement)
- TrueTheater - Stretch (Non-linear stretch technology) - Video smart de-interlacing
Playback Formats: - New! - BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc) playback - New! - BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc) playback - VCPS for DVD+VR with content protection - CPRM for DVD-VR with content protection - DVD-Audio - External subtitles - DVD files (DVD-Video, DVD-VR, DVD+VR) from any folder in your hard drive
Advanced Features
- Movie Collection Support - New! - Movie Remix - New! - Integration with MoovieLive Service - UPnP Support - Access your media from a Home Network - Say-It-Again - Automatically repeats the last movie scene - See-It-All - Automatically speeds playback to show as much of the movie as possible