The Best 3D, HD and Blu-ray 3D and DVD Player Available

PowerDVD, the consumer’s favorite HD, Blu-ray 3D and DVD player software, has now been updated to enhance your home entertainment experience with the latest 3D technology. Complemented by high-definition Dolby and DTS technologies, PowerDVD 10 now converts 2D into 3D, plays an extensive range of video formats including MKV, FLV, 3GP, and makes movies more social by sharing bookmark reviews and live comments with MovieMarks. Experience PowerDVD 10 - the best HD, Blu-ray and 3D movie software player available today.

Supported formats for HD and Blu-ray DVD playback

• Supports the latest video formats: MKV, FLV, 3GP
• Supports the latest high-definition audio formats: Dolby, Digtial EX, Plus, DTS-HD
• Converts 2D videos and DVDs into 3D
• Compatible with Windows 7

Upscale DVDs and Videos to HD

Enjoy better movie playback quality for both your DVDs and video files with TrueTheater™ HD upscaling technology. DVD and media player PowerDVD 10 lets you output to an HDTV in a quality that looks noticeably sharper and clearer. Optimization for hardware acceleration ensures even smoother results.

Upscale DVDs to HD Quality

DVD player PowerDVD 10 upscales your DVDs and video files to HD quality with CyberLink’s TrueTheater™ HD technology. With TrueTheater™ HD optimized for NVIDIA CUDA and ATI Stream hardware acceleration technology, PowerDVD 10 ensures smooth HD-like performance for DVD movies by shifting the graphics processing from your CPU to your NVIDIA or ATI graphics card.

Browse Titles and Chapters by Touch

Make your DVD searches more exciting with FancyView, an animated browsing mode for your DVD titles. Enjoy a unique perspective when browsing for movie titles, chapters, and special features.
Get a preview of chapters for those DVDs you've watched with PowerDVD's "flashback" thumbnails. FancyView supports touch technology so you can flick through movie chapters with your fingertips too.

Better Video Playback

With PowerDVD 10 home videos can be enhanced using TrueTheater™ Stabilizer and TrueTheater™ Noise Reduction to improve quality as you play. As a universal player, PowerDVD now plays even more formats, gives you access to online movie trailers via MoovieLive, and lets you upload files to YouTube.

Play Any Video File

Play almost any video file you can get your hands on with PowerDVD 10. New video format support includes: mkv(h.264), qt, mov, rm and rmvb (requires RealPlayer installed), flv(h.264) and 3gpp; in addition to the heaps of HD and SD formats PowerDVD already supports. PowerDVD also offers support for an expanded range of subtitles: smi, ass, ssa, psb, srt, and sub.

Whether you generate your own video content or download clips from the internet, the new ‘Video’ tab allows an easy way to browse all your files from the same all-in-one players that you use to enjoy movies and music.


Enjoy Better Video File Playback

Enhance your video files during real-time playback with TrueTheater™ Noise Reduction and TrueTheater™ Stabilizer.

Simply select TrueTheater™ Noise Reduction to remove any ‘visual noise’ from grainy videos, to give a much clearer, artifact-free picture. Apply TrueTheater™ Stabilizer to fix the shakiness in videos that often occurs when you take hand-held camcorder shots.

Play Music Files

Access your favorite music tracks from the same player you use for enjoying Blu-ray Discs and DVDs with PowerDVD 10. Create ‘Music Playlist’ to group your favorite tracks. With support for the Windows 7 music library, you can sort your music by title, album, artist, genre, length or size.

Enhance Audio Playback

Make the most of your home theater audio hardware with support for up to 8-channel speaker systems. TrueTheater™ Surround simulates different listening environments best suited to your current configuration. Whether you’re watching movies or listening to music on a notebook let TrueTheater™ Surround enhance your audio experience.
Apply genre-effects with a selection of 14 audio presets to best suit your music style.

Movies rewiews & live Comments

Create movie reviews that other users can read and play using PowerDVD 10. MovieMarks combine bookmarks and review comments and can be shared online via MoovieLive.com. Meanwhile, Live Comments let you post your opinions to Facebook, Twitter and MoovieLive while your movie is playing.


System Requirements

The system requirements for CyberLink PowerDVD vary depending on the movie content you are watching. New 3D technologies require additional hardware to view 3D movie content: please see the Hardware Support section for more details about 3D hardware and graphics card support.

CyberLink PowerDVD optimizes performance by selecting the appropriate video de-interlacing algorithm for the available processing power. CyberLink PowerDVD maintains its support for processors below 1.6 GHz by ensuring that some CyberLink TrueTheater technologies are turned off by default. CyberLink PowerDVD's advanced audio and video technologies function better when used with processors above 2.4 GHz.


Operating System

• Microsoft Windows 7, Vista and XP (Windows XP Service Pack 2 is required)

Processor (CPU)

• Blu-ray Disc playback: Pentium 4 541 (3.2 GHz), Athlon 64 X2 3800+ or above
• TrueTheater 3D playback: Pentium D 950 (3.0GHz), AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ or above
• DVD playback: Pentium 4 (2.4 GHz), Athlon 64 2800+ (1.8 GHz) or above

Graphics Processor (GPU)

• Blu-ray Disc playback: Intel G45, ATI Radeon HD 2400, NVIDIA Geforce 7600GT or above
• TrueTheater 3D playback: Intel G45, ATI Radeon HD 2400, NVIDIA Geforce 8800GT or above
• DVD playback: AGP or PCI Express graphic accelerator supporting DirectX 9.0 or above
o Note: we strongly recommend that you update your graphics card driver to the latest version. 3D display devices are required for TrueTheater 3D playback.

Memory

• Blu-ray Disc playback: 2 GB required for Vista and Windows 7; 1 GB required for Windows XP
• DVD and TrueTheater 3D playback: 1 GB required for Vista and Windows 7; 512 MB required for Windows XP

Hard Disk Space

• 300 MB for product installation

Display Device

• DVD and Blu-ray Disc playback: HDCP compliant display for digital output. TV or computer monitor for analog output
• TrueTheater 3D playback: 3D display and 3D glasses required. HDCP compliant display for digital output. TV or computer monitor for analog output

Disc Player

• Blu-ray Disc playback: BD-ROM/BD-RE or Super Multi Blu combo disc drive
• DVD and TrueTheater 3D playback: DVD-ROM, DVD+-R/RW, DVD-RAM or DVD Super Multi combo disc drive

Microphone

• A microphone is required for recording voice-overs in Movie Remix mode

Internet Connection

• Internet connection required for web services

Hardware Support List

Graphics Cards for Movie Playback


To ensure the best possible performance with PowerDVD, please update the driver for your graphics hardware to the latest version. Intel:

• 965, G33, G35, G45 graphics software decoder (Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66 GHz) or above is recommended)
• Recommended driver version: 15.17 or later
• Video RAM: memory requires 256 MB or above

NVIDIA:

• Minimum: GeForce 7600 GT, GeForce 7800 GTX 512, GeForce 7900 GX2, GeForce 7900 GTX, GeForce 7950 GX2,
• Recommended: GeForce 8400 series, GeForce 8500 series, GeForce 8600 series, GeForce 8800 series, GeForce 9400 series, GeForce 9600 series, GeForce 9800 series, GeForce GTX 260 series, GeForce GTX 280 series, GeForce GTX 290 series
• Recommended driver version: 196.21 or later
• Video RAM: Graphics card memory requires 256 MB or above.

Note: To support NVIDIA CUDA optimization for TrueTheater HD technology, make sure your system meets the following requirements.

• Multiprocessor: 4 or above
• Graphic Card: GeForce 9500 GT, GeForce 9600 GT, GeForce 9600 GSO, GeForce 9800 GT, GeForce 9800 GTX, GeForce 9800 GTX+, GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce G100, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTS 150, GeForce GTS 250, GeForce GTX 260, GeForce GTX 275, GeForce GTX 280, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce GTX 295, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 9650M GS, GeForce 9700M GT, GeForce 9700M GTS, GeForce 9800M GS, GeForce 9800M GTS, GeForce 9800M GT, GeForce 9800M GTX, GeForce G102M, GeForce G105M, GeForce G110M, GeForce GT 130M, GeForce GTS 150M, GeForce GTS 160M, GeForce GTX 260M, GeForce GTX 280M.

ATI:

• Minimum: ATI Radeon X1600 series, X1800 series, X1900 series
• Recommended: ATI Radeon HD 2400, 2600, 2900, 3400, 3600, 3800, 4600, 4800, and 5000 series
• Recommended driver version: 10.2 or later

Note: To support ATI Stream optimization for TrueTheater HD technology, make sure your system meets the following requirements.

• Graphic Card: ATI Radeon HD 4800, 5700, and 5800 series

Additional Hardware Support for TrueTheater™ 3D

• NVIDIA 3D Vision (for Windows 7 only)

o Please download and install 196.34 beta VGA driver (or above) and then the 196.21 WHQL 3D Vision driver

• 120Hz Frame-sequential 3D LCD

o Native format: 120 fps left and right
o Eye wear: Active shutter glasses
o Supported Hardware: Samsung 2233RZ, Viewsonic FuHzion VX2265wm, Asus G51J-SZ028V, Mitsubishi WD-60C9, Samsung HL-T5076S, Acer GD245HQ, Acer GD235HZ

• 3D Polarizer LCD

o Native format: row-interleaved
o Eye wear: Polarized glasses
o Supported Hardware: Hyundai W220S, JVC 463D10, Acer 5738DG (Notebook)

• 3D Ready HDTV (DLP)

o Native format: checkerboard
o Eye wear: Active shutter glasses
o Supported Hardware: Mitsubishi 1080p DLP HDTV, Samsung 3D Ready DLP HDTV



HD Audio Compatible Sound Card and Codec List

• Realtek ALC885 (support up to 192kHz/24bit 2-channels or 96kHz/24bit 4-8 channels)
• Realtek ALC889 (support up to 192kHz/24bit 2-channels or 96kHz/24bit 4-8 channels)
• Realtek ALC669 (support up to 192kHz/24bit 6 channels)
• Realtek ALC670 (support up to 192kHz/24bit 6 channels)
• Realtek ALC892 (support up to 192kHz/24bit 8 channels)
• VIA EnvyHD Vinyl VT1818S codec (support up to 192kHz/24bit 8-channels)
• VIA EnvyHD Vinyl VT1828S codec (support up to 192kHz/24bit 8-channels)
• VIA EnvyHD Vinyl VT2020 codec (support up to 192kHz/24bit 8-channels)
• Auzentech X-Fi HomeTheater HD (supports HDMI 1.3a bit-stream lossless pass-through—More Info)
• NVIDIA GT2xx series graphics cards
• ATI Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards supporting lossless pass-through
• Intel Core i3/i5/i7 with integrated audio and graphics