Press Release
Taipei, Taiwan - March 27, 2007 - CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a world leader in digital home solutions, today announced support for the Advanced Video Codec High Definition Standard (AVCHD) for video playback and authoring. CyberLink has already incorporated AVCHD support in high-definition disc player software PowerDVD Ultra, and will launch support for disc authoring software PowerProducer mid-year.
“The AVCHD
format offers exceptional quality for the recording, storage and
playback of
high-definition video content,” said Alice H. Chang, CEO of
CyberLink. “With
our expertise in developing leading playback and authoring products,
CyberLink’s support of the AVCHD format delivers greater
flexibility for our
hardware partners and even more choice for consumers.”
CyberLink
PowerDVD Ultra has passed certification for the AVCHD format from
official
tests conducted by the AVCHD Testing Center in Japan.
AVCHD is
based on the MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video format, enabling recording of
high-definition 1080i and 720p video onto discs. With faster seek times
for
accessing content compared with miniDVD, and offering higher
compression
requiring less storage space than MPEG-2, the format is regarded as
superior
choice for consumers in the expanding high-definition camcorder market.
Currently
Sony and Panasonic have camcorders supporting the AVCHD for recording,
while
Blu-ray Disc players support AVCHD playback. CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra
enables
playback of discs and files created using the AVCHD format on the PC.
PowerProducer will support the authoring and burning of AVCHD content.
