Power DVD 8.0 - OEM Version

Enjoy the smoothest, brightest and most natural visuals

Experience high-definition audio and 8-channel expansion

Play the broadest range of audio and video files and formats

Navigate easily with shortcuts, bookmarks and other cool controls

Expand your features online with DVD enthusiast packs

Intensely Vivid Images

The second generation of CyberLink's world-renowned video enhancing technology makes images brighter and colors more natural. CLEV-2 adjusts a scene's chroma and luminance to enhance image detail, and thus achieves the best possible results for LCD/CRT monitors and playback of overly dark or bright DVD movies.

Smart Video Deinterlacing

CyberLink's adaptive video deinterlacing technology ensures a smoother and clearer video image while playing video files and DVDs. Deinterlacing is unavoidable as a result of playing interlaced DVD video on modern high-definition (mainly non-interlaced) displays (e.g. TVs). Without advanced deinterlacing, video can appear jagged, blotchy, shadowy, or blurry. CyberLink's intelligent deinterlacing technology retains video quality and minimizes distortion by analyzing video frame-by-frame and dynamically applying adaptive deinterlacing only when necessary.

Users also have a choice of deinterlacing options, including automatic deinterlacing or user-defined settings. Defining how deinterlacing is performed and by what algorithm is also an option: Pixel Adaptive, Median or Bob.

Multi-Display Ratios

PowerDVD 8 supports multiple display ratios, letting users play 4:3 DVD movies on widescreen displays and 16:9 DVD movies on 4:3 displays. A natural stretching technology is utilized to avoid losses that would otherwise be created by Pan & Scan cropping or Letterbox display.

Cinematic Surround Sound

The second generation of CyberLink's proprietary audio technology takes 2-channel audio and expands it into multi-channel audio (e.g. CD expanded to 5.1 channels). CLMEI-2 maps stereo or general surround sound and converts it for output via 7.1-channel systems maximum. Music mode, Movie mode, and the unique Onstage music mode are offered.

High-Definition Audio

High-definition audio provides double or quadruple the sampling rate and a scale 256X finer than standard CD audio. PowerDVD is compatible with the latest high-definition sound boards and Intel's 915/925 chipsets.

Virtual Surround Sound

CyberLink's Virtual Surround technology simulates the feeling of surround sound when multi-channel audio is played via two speakers. PowerDVD 8 provides a choice of three audio environments: Living Room, Theater, and Stadium.

Audio Technologies

The following is a list of other great audio technologies supported by PowerDVD:

  • DVD-Audio support*
  • Dolby Pro Logic IIx*
  • Digital Theater Surround 5.1 (DTS)*
  • Dolby Digital Technologies
  • Dynamic Range Compression (Dolby Digital)
  • Speaker System Support
  • Audio Time Stretch
  • 24/96 LPCM Direct Output
  • LFE Mixer

Other Amazing Features

  • DivX« Pro*: PowerDVD 8 enables the direct playback of files created using DivX« Pro, which improves the level of video compression by 30% more than the original DivX format.
  • Support for all DVD/CD Formats and Variants: DVD-Video, DVD-Audio*, DVD+VR, DVD-VR, miniDVD, VCD 2.0 and SVCD.
  • Support for a Broad Range of Media File Formats: Play back a wide variety of media file formats from their HD or directly from a disc including formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 HD, WMV, WMV-HD, MP3, WAV, DivX« Pro* or H.264**.
  • Microsoft WHQL Certified: PowerDVD 8 is certified for Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, ME, and 98SE.

Support for Dual Monitor Graphic Cards/Chipsets: Watch movies on one monitor and work on the other, or even stretch a movie across both monitors.

The second generation of CyberLink's world-renowned video enhancing technology makes images brighter and colors more natural. CLEV-2 adjusts a scene's chroma and luminance to enhance image detail, and thus achieves the best possible results for LCD/CRT monitors and playback of overly dark or bright DVD movies.

CyberLink's adaptive video deinterlacing technology ensures a smoother and clearer video image while playing video files and DVDs. Deinterlacing is unavoidable as a result of playing interlaced DVD video on modern high-definition (mainly non-interlaced) displays (e.g. TVs). Without advanced deinterlacing, video can appear jagged, blotchy, shadowy, or blurry. CyberLink's intelligent deinterlacing technology retains video quality and minimizes distortion by analyzing video frame-by-frame and dynamically applying adaptive deinterlacing only when necessary.

Users also have a choice of deinterlacing options, including automatic deinterlacing or user-defined settings. Defining how deinterlacing is performed and by what algorithm is also an option: Pixel Adaptive, Median or Bob.

PowerDVD 8 supports multiple display ratios, letting users play 4:3 DVD movies on widescreen displays and 16:9 DVD movies on 4:3 displays. A natural stretching technology is utilized to avoid losses that would otherwise be created by Pan & Scan cropping or Letterbox display

« Back