CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra 8 
is an excellent software DVD player which provides a host of playback options, a top-notch picture and a user-friendly interface. It comes thoroughly recommended for new users, while those upgrading from PowerDVD 5 will be impressed by the number of added features, particularly on the audio front."
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Intensely Vivid Images
The second generation of CyberLink's world-renowned video enhancing technology makes images brighter and colors more natural. CLEV-2 adjusts a scene's chroma and luminance to enhance image detail, and thus achieves the best possible results for LCD/CRT monitors and playback of overly dark or bright DVD movies.
Smart Video Deinterlacing
CyberLink's adaptive video deinterlacing technology ensures a smoother and clearer video image while playing video files and DVDs. Deinterlacing is unavoidable as a result of playing interlaced DVD video on modern high-definition (mainly non-interlaced) displays (e.g. TVs). Without advanced deinterlacing, video can appear jagged, blotchy, shadowy, or blurry. CyberLink's intelligent deinterlacing technology retains video quality and minimizes distortion by analyzing video frame-by-frame and dynamically applying adaptive deinterlacing only when necessary.
Users also have a choice of deinterlacing options, including automatic deinterlacing or user-defined settings. Defining how deinterlacing is performed and by what algorithm is also an option: Pixel Adaptive, Median or Bob.
Multi-Display Ratios
Powerdvd Standard 8.0 supports multiple display ratios, letting users play 4:3 DVD movies on widescreen displays and 16:9 DVD movies on 4:3 displays with its CLPV™ (CyberLink Pano Vision) technology. A natural stretching method is utilized to avoid losses that would otherwise be created by Pan & Scan cropping or Letterbox display.
Changelog:
(What's new in PowerDVD version 8.0)
Audio
* New! - Dolby Digital Plus*
* New! - Dolby TrueHD*
* New! - DTS-HD*
* DTS-ES*
* DTS Neo:6 (Discrete, Matrix)*
* DTS 96/24**
* AAC 5.1 Channel support**
* DTS**
* Dolby Digital 5.1
* Dolby Digital EX**
* Dolby Pro Logic IIx**
* Dolby Headphone**
* Dolby Virtual Speaker**
* TrueTheater™ - Surround (Multi-channel Environment Impression Mode)
* TrueTheater™ - Surround (Virtual Speaker Mode)
* TrueTheater™ - Surround (Headphone Mode)
* MLP lossless**
* SRS TruSurroundXT**
* Pitch scaling technology
* Audio equalizer presets
* Audio visualizations
* Direct 96/24 output
* MP3, WAV
Video
* New! - SMPTE VC-1 High-Definition Video*
* MPEG4 AVC (H.264) High-Definition Video**
* TrueTheater™ - Lighting (Adaptive lighting for video quality enhancement)
* TrueTheater™ - Stretch (Non-linear stretch technology)
* Video smart de-interlacing
Playback Formats
* New! - BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc) playback*
* New! - BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc) playback*
* VCPS for DVD+VR with content protection
* CPRM for DVD-VR with content protection**
* DVD-Audio**
* External subtitles
* DVD files (DVD-Video, DVD-VR, DVD+VR) from any folder in your hard drive
Advanced Features
* New! - Movie Collection Support
* New! - Movie Remix
* New! - Integration with MoovieLive Service
* UPnP Support - Access your media from a Home Network**
* Say-It-Again - Automatically repeats the last movie scene
* See-It-All - Automatically speeds playback to show as much of the movie as possible
* Read-It-Clearly - Moves subtitles from the viewing screen
* - Available in Ultra Edition (Blu-ray Disc) only
** - Available in Deluxe version and Ultra Edition (Blu-ray Disc)
