Ulead announces all-new Pocket Series software for quick and easy DVD creation

Consumer-oriented creativity applications offer simple and direct method to make high-quality DVDs of photos and video

Taipei, Taiwan – November 17th 2005 - Ulead Systems, Inc., a 16-year industry leader in video, image and DVD software, today announced the release of Ulead Pocket Slideshow and Ulead Pocket DV Show, the first applications in a new series of consumer-oriented DVD creativity software. Ulead Pocket series software is designed to appeal to novice or first-time users by presenting a dramatically simplified, single-purpose, approach to burning digital photos and video onto DVD for viewing on TV.

"Imagine being able to turn digital photos and video into playable discs as easily as putting your camera into your pocket and taking out a finished DVD," said Dr. Eldon Liu, president of Ulead. "That's our goal with the new Pocket software series. Users just follow a few simple onscreen instructions, much like using a kiosk or cash machine, to produce a high-quality DVD."

Ulead Pocket series applications take a unique "non PC-centric" approach to transferring photos and video from the camera, creating the DVD menu system and burning the final disc. Highly automated and providing large on-screen instructions and buttons, Ulead Pocket series software is accessible to users with a minimum of PC skills. The software also includes voice instructions to let users know what they need to do next.

Ulead Pocket Slideshow
Ulead Pocket Slideshow, designed for use with digital still cameras, automatically downloads photos from a camera or memory card, rotates photos as necessary and adds background music along with pan & zoom effects and unique split screen transitions. Slideshows are presented with a personalized DVD menu featuring the first photo of the series.

Users can burn the slideshow directly after importing their photos or customize shows by hiding or rotating selected photos and choosing alternate music and DVD menu styles. Before burning, users can preview their finished slideshow and they are given an estimate of the time required to complete the DVD.

Ulead Pocket DV Show
Ulead Pocket DV Show, for use with DV camcorders, fully automates the process of capturing video from a DV camcorder and burning it to a playable disc. After inserting a blank DVD, the user is prompted to connect a DV camcorder and given the option to burn directly using standard settings or step through options to customize the background music, on screen title and DVD menu style. When the user selects burn, the software automatically rewinds the camcorder and captures the contents of the tape. Ulead Pocket DV Show creates a personalized DVD menu featuring the first scene on the tape and inserts six chapter points. A progress bar shows the status of the burning process and provides an estimate of the time required.

Compatible with all DVD formats, Ulead Pocket Slideshow and Ulead Pocket DV Show allow users to use DVD -/+ R and RW discs as well as DVD-RAM for slideshow or DV show projects. High quality MPEG-2 encoding ensures the quality of users photos and video are maintained. Slideshow projects may include up to 800 photos. DV show projects may include up to 1 hour of video, or a full DV tape at LP settings.

The applications run on both Windows 2000 and XP and presents modest minimum PC requirements of PIII 800 for Ulead Pocket DVD Show and P4 1.8 for Ulead Pocket DV Show. Minimum RAM for both applications is 256MB.

Pricing and availability
Ulead Pocket Slideshow and Ulead Pocket DV Show are available for £12.99 each as electronic downloads only from the Ulead Mall.
See: http://www.ulead.co.uk/ups/runme.htm for full details.

About Ulead Systems
Ulead Systems, Inc. (TSE:2487), is a leading developer of innovative video, imaging and DVD authoring software for desktop, server, mobile and Internet platforms. As more people use digital technologies at home, school and the workplace, Ulead software empowers users of all levels with the tools to easily and affordably personalize, manage and share digital content.

Ulead is a principal member of the DVD Forum, participates in DVD Forum Working Groups and is a general member of the HD DVD promotion group. Ulead is also a Contributor member of Blu-ray Disc Association and serves on the BDA TEG.

For more information on the company, its products and services, please visit http://www.ulead.co.uk

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