CyberLink PowerDVD

PowerDVD delivers stunning quality for movies, music, photos and video. Experience HD movie files at quality beyond HD. Upscale DVD movies to Full HD resolution and enhance playback of video files, photos & music. A true universal player, PowerDVD makes it simple to play your movies, videos, photos & music at their best.

Better-than-original Quality
Get the most out of movies, music, photos and video. Powerful CyberLink TrueTheater® enhancements make movies shine and add dimension to video, photo and music playback.

Universal Player
Enjoy flawless playback of all your media. Play popular disc and file formats from your PC, connected devices, home network, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr.

Instant Enjoyment
Experience stunning playback performance. Upload photos and video directly to social media and unleash your inner movie critic by commenting on the movies you watch

The Must-have Player for your Windows® 8 PC
PowerDVD is the No.1 HD and media player with over 100 million copies shipped each year. Play DVDs and the latest HD file formats with confidence on your new PC.

Better-than-original Quality

Breakthrough Sight and Sound Enhancements
PowerDVD’s unique TrueTheater™ enhancements make movies come alive with sharper detail, enhanced lighting, smoother motion and immersive surround sound effects.

TrueTheater HD - Upscale video to HD quality and beyond
TrueTheater Motion - Up-convert frame-rate for smoother video playback
TrueTheater Lighting - Experience superb colors and enhanced image detail
TrueTheater Stretch - Intelligently expand 4:3 video to 16:9 widescreen
TrueTheater Stabilizer - Minimize the shakiness of your videos
TrueTheater Denoise - Reduce artifacts from shooting in low light
TrueTheater Surround - Expand stereo output for home theater-style surround sound

Enhance playback of movies, music, photos and video with TrueTheater
TrueTheater™ HD
TrueTheater HD upscales DVDs and standard definition video to 1080 resolution while eliminating jagged edges and video artifacts. For HD movie files, TrueTheater HD adds edge enhancement, color and lighting technologies to boost the HD movie experience on large displays.

Universal Player for Movies, Music, Photos & Video

Flawless playback of all your media
Play media in today's popular formats from your PC, connected devices, our home network, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. Experience stunning performance and seamless playback of movies, music, photos and video clips.
• Play DVD discs
• Movies and videos from file, including MKV
• Ultra HD 4K videos
• Music files in MP3, FLAC and popular formats
• Photo slideshows with pan & zoom
• Camera RAW photo slideshows
• YouTube, Facebook and Flickr content

New ways to play
Double-click a file or drag an entire folder to the PowerDVD icon. Playback starts instantly. Try the new Mini Player for background music or sit back and relax with Cinema mode.

Personal Photo & Video Player
Starting slideshow playback of personal media is now as simple as dragging and dropping a folder of photos and videos to the PowerDVD media window.
• Click-one to play-all in a folder
• Playback starts instantly
• Portraits shots are displayed in the correct orientation
• Combine photos and video with seamless playback
• Camera RAW format support

Instant Enjoyment

Instant Play features get you playing faster
Speed! Experience PowerDVD’s fastest-ever start-up for DVD, photo, video and music playback. A new architecture and application optimization deliver Instant Play performance for viewing photos, playing music and video playback.

Easier Navigation
Intuitive controls make a difference. PowerDVD 13 puts the next button you want to click right at hand.
• Display Current Time, Estimated End Time, and Battery
• Meter in full screen
• Park mouse in side zones to instantly hide interface controls
• Pause / play with the space bar
• Use left and right arrow keys to jump forward and back
• New Play Speed Navigator makes it easy to set slow/fast
• motion playback

HD audio for your HD movies
Match your visual experience with the best audio available. PowerDVD offers a high quality listening experience for all your media. Enjoy music in lossless stereo formats and movies in immersive surround sound.

Cinematic soundtracks
PowerDVD lets you take advantage of today’s most powerful home theater audio technologies for DVD and HD movies. Enjoy superb 5.1 channel audio in Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital, DTS and AAC formats.

Maximum quality music
Play music in popular lossless formats including FLAC and APE as well as high-quality DTS 24/96.

Enhance audio for immersive sound
Expand 2 channel audio to 5.1 surround sound with Dolby Pro Logic IIx and take 5.1 ch. sound to 6.1 channels with Dolby Digital EX. Experience 5.1 surround sound on headphones and on stereo speaker systems with CyberLink TrueTheater® Surround .

Home Theater Connection
Connect external audio components with lossless pass-through for digital audio. Support for HDMI 1.4 allows simultaneous transfer of multi-channel high-definition audio using one hassle-free cable.

Movie file playback as seamless as disc
Watching movies from file is as convenient as watching from disc. The Movie Library automatically adds cover art to make finding movies a snap.
• Auto load subtitles when you play movie files
• See instant scene thumbnails when you scrub the timeline
• Move between chapters in MKV movies
• Resume movie files from where you left off

Amazing quality subtitles
An all-new subtitle engine delivers sparkling quality and unprecedented flexibility.

Customize subtitles for MKV movies
• Edit subtitle size, color, border color and position
• Display subtitles outside of picture in screen letterbox region
• Load subtitles by drag and drop

Display primary & secondary subtitles at the same time
• Patented CyberLink technology allows simultaneous display
• of two separate subtitles
• Valued for education, language learning and watching Hollywood
• movies in non-English speaking regions
• Display primary and secondary subtitles simultaneously for DVD
• disc and MKV / MP4 movies

All your movies, videos, photos & music in one place
PowerDVD makes it easier than ever to organize all your media. Browse movies in a dedicated library. View your music, photos, video and music collections. Create and manage playlists for photos, music and videos, rate your favorite media content, and find your media by folder, album, artist or genre.

Online movie info
Find out what’s new in theaters and on disc. Broaden your movie experience with integrated online movie info for your collection.

Browse network devices
Stream content from playback and storage devices on your home network via DLNA.

Connect with Social Media
Link to YouTube, Facebook & Flickr accounts to enjoy your favorite social media sites.

Purchase music
Browse the 7digital online music store (selected regions). Choose from over 22 million DRM-free songs!

Customize the interface
Customization options let you tailor PowerDVD to your needs. Hide Media Panel tabs – such as the Music Store, Home Media (DLNA) or Online Media – to streamline the interface. Hiding media panel tabs also halts related background processes making the application run yet faster.
• Choose items that display in the caption bar, movies tab and
• playback controls
• Change keyboard hotkey and mouse wheel behaviors

The Must-have Player for your Windows® 8 PC

Complete Media Entertainment for Windows® 8
If you’ve discovered that you can no longer play DVD movies or MPEG-2 video on your new Windows® 8 PC, you’ve found your solution. PowerDVD delivers a complete media entertainment experience!

Plays DVDs, MPEG-2 and all HD Videos, too
PowerDVD supports DVDs and most popular HD video formats. Spend more time enjoying movies instead of worrying about codecs. Upscale DVDs to HD quality with TrueTheater HD enhancement.