Taipei, Taiwan----April 17, 2008----CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), innovative solution provider for the connected digital lifestyle, today announced that CyberLink YouCam is shipped with all Alienware® notebooks equipped with a webcam. The combination allows customers of Alienware's award-winning Area-51® m15x and Area-51 m9750 notebooks to experience not only extreme multimedia entertainment, but more fun and laughs while chatting via webcam, with all kinds of expressive effects.
By supporting the majority of instant messaging (IM) communication tools in the market, CyberLink YouCam creates a fun way to talk to friends online with lots of creative effects including frames, filters, distortions, and emotion effects. CyberLink YouCam also supports the easy creation of images and video clips by capturing photos and videos with a webcam. Captured photos and videos can be easily uploaded to YouTube or shared by e-mail directly from YouCam.
“With the popularity of built-in webcams in notebooks, CyberLink YouCam provides a creative webcam application to enrich video chats”, said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. “CyberLink YouCam lets users to do much more with their webcams by offering ways to add creative, personalized, and interesting effects to online video conversations, for both work and pleasure.”
Alienware systems are designed with one purpose, says Bryan de Zayas, Associate Director for Product Marketing at Alienware, to blow the user away. We want Alienware users to experience something new and unique – something fun. Traditional webcam applications are boring. By including the YouCam software package on our notebooks, Alienware and CyberLink are creating a fun way for friends to interact.
CyberLink YouCam offers the following features:
- 49 dynamic effects that can be applied during live video chatting, including frames, filters, distortions, and emotion effects
- Compatibility with Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Skype, and AOL Instant Messenger
- Instant addition of effects while capturing videos and photos
- Capturing of single shot or multi-shot sequences in JPEG format
- Uploading of captured videos and photos to YouTube or direct e-mailing from within YouCam
- Free effects available for download from CyberLink's website (http://www.cyberlink.com/youcam/ )
Alienware notebooks featuring CyberLink YouCam are already available in the US.
For more information about CyberLink YouCam, please visit www.cyberlink.com
