Cyberlink has released a new version of their popular DVD playback software, PowerDVD. There are lots of new and improved features in this version, including:

• Smart Video Deinterlacing - Intelligent frame-by-frame analysis produces ultra-smooth DVD playback by eliminating ghosting, feathering, and other elements.
• Intensely Vivid Images - CyberLink's second-generation dynamic video technology (CLEV-2) delivers DVD movies with greater luminance and more natural colors.
• Multi-Display Ratios - CyberLink Pano Vision (CLPV) supports both 4:3 and 16:9 DVD content and displays with stretching technology to naturally optimize the display ratio of content with the available monitor.
• High-Definition Audio - Creates sound quality better than CD audio. Support for DVD-Audio and DVD-Video delivers extra-crisp 192 KHz, 24 bit stereo audio and 96 KHz, 24 bit sound.
• Cinematic Surround Sound - CyberLink Multi-Channel Environment Impression 2 (CLMEI-2) creates a realistic feeling of being at the cinema by expanding 2-channel audio sources into 8-channel audio systems.