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CyberLink InterActual Pack for PowerDVD 6 player unlocks DVD bonus content

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CyberLink Releases InterActual Pack for PowerDVD 6

Delivers Advanced Interactivity and Seamless Access to Hollywood's Best DVD Bonus Content

Taipei, Taiwan -- July 19, 2005 -- CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a world leader and pioneer in providing integrated solutions for the Digital Home, today announced that it has released the InterActual Pack for its popular Windows-based DVD player software CyberLink PowerDVD.

Based on technology licensed from Sonic Solutions, the InterActual Pack enables users to unlock bonus Hollywood content contained in the ROM-zone of a DVD title.

Features that can be accessed on the DVDs include movie scripts and storyboards, photo galleries, and star profiles, as well as seamless links to the Internet that deliver access to updated content like promotional offers, contests, culture or franchise web sites, and other exciting Internet events.

The InterActual Pack-enhanced PowerDVD lets users automatically access DVDs that feature InterActual content with no additional software required. PowerDVD thus ensures users can enjoy an even more captivating environment for watching DVDs.

CyberLink provides two offers for lovers of InterActual content: PowerDVD with the InterActual Pack built in, and a standalone pack for adding InterActual features to users' current version of PowerDVD

"We are pleased to work with CyberLink on this exciting technology that lets consumers get full access to the dynamic DVD bonus features provided by Hollywood studios," said Clint Ludeman, vice president of marketing for professional products at Sonic Solutions.

"With millions of Hollywood DVDs powered with hundreds of hours of InterActual-enhanced bonus content, PowerDVD users who upgrade to the InterActual Pack have the key to unlock the exciting world of ROM and Internet-based DVD extras."

Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink, added, "CyberLink strives to provide customers with the best and latest DVD features, and the inclusion of InterActual technology in PowerDVD extends this mission to include rich DVD content only accessible via the PC".

"From today, the PowerDVD experience is not just the best video playback and home-theater audio you can get on the PC, it's also about providing access to the most exciting range of Hollywood DVD content on the market."

This is the fifth expansion pack for PowerDVD 6 - the others are the Mobility Pack, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) Pack, MPEG-2/4 AAC Pack and the CPRM Pack.

Detailed information about all these packs, including the InterActual Pack can be found at:
http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/...xp_packs.jsp#ia

Availability
The InterActual Pack is now available for US$19.95/Euros Ā£17.99 at the CyberStore, along with other expansion packs.

About InterActual
InterActual (http://www.interactual.com), a division of Sonic Solutions, is the leading provider of software and services that enable cutting-edge DVD interactivity in computers and next-generation home entertainment platforms.

InterActual's products enable advanced interactivity and the seamless integration of DVD with the power and immediacy of the Internet. The company's customers are the major Hollywood studios, record labels, and other content owners, along with technology companies, that license the InterActual platform. Over 1,500 major DVD titles are enhanced with InterActual's DVD-ROM software tools.

About CyberLink Corp
CyberLink Corp, founded in 1995, is a world leader and pioneer in providing integrated solutions for the Digital Home. The products are categorized into two major lines: Digital Multimedia Solutions and Training Solutions.

Digital Multimedia Solutions includes DVD Burning and Creativity Products focused on media creation by advancing the technologies to capture, edit, author and record all types of media.

Digital Entertainment products provide 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.

The company's Training Solutions include authoring tools for creating training content and training management systems that offer an easy and cost effective way to deliver and manage training programs over corporate intranets or the Internet.

As a result of the company's solid growth and profitability, CyberLink became a public company in October 2000 and is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (5203.TW). To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region including Japan. CyberLink's worldwide headquarter is in Taipei.