If you have a notebook or LCD monitor that you like to wach movies on, CyberLink PowerDVD 5 Deluxe may be worth checking out. According to a report the software offers new technology enhancements. Improvements to the software include CyberLink Eagle Vision (CLEV). They say it will make you wonder how you ever watched movies on LCDs before. Even CRTs benefit to some degree.
As with the previous player interface, right-clicking on the image area brings up configuration options for video and audio enhancements. Another innovation, CyberLink PanoVision (CLPV), is similar to the black-bar eliminator technology found in high-end widescreen TVs. Rather than equally stretching all parts of a 4:3 aspect-ratio picture to fit the display of a widescreen laptop, which would distort the image, CLPV leaves most of the image untouched, stretching it logarithmically toward the edges. CLPV works equally well fitting a widescreen image (16:9) to a standard 4:3 screen. |
In the article, PowerDVD 5 is described as "a dazzling upgrade". They go on to say more horsepower will be required to run as compared to prior versions. Claimed minimum requirements indicate you need a processor that runs at roughly 500-MHz to enjoy jitter-free images with CLEV enabled. Running CLEV with CLPV or CLMEI could up required CPU speed to around 1 GHz with at least 128MB of RAM.
Visit the Cyberlink website for more information. They also have a trial version for download if you would like to make a comparison for yourself.
Source: dvd-recordable.org
