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CyberLink Announces Support for DVD-R (VR mode) and MPEG 2/4 AAC Audio Formats

Posted by on Dec 15, 2004 | 2 Comments

CyberLink Corp. (5203.TWO), a world leader and pioneer in providing integrated solutions for the Digital Home, announced today its support for DVD-R (VR mode) and MPEG 2/4 AAC audio. DVD-R (VR mode) is the latest format approved by the DVD-Forum, allowing the recording of copy-once protected content in DVD-VR format. MPEG 2/4 AAC is a high quality audio format featuring a low bit-rate, and has been widely used among Japanese digital TV and mobile phone companies.

With the growing popularity of digital broadcasting and the increasing prevalence of MPEG 2 AAC in Japan, users are now able to record digital TV content featuring MPEG 2 AAC to disc. However, playback is restricted to software and hardware supporting the Content Protection of Recordable Media (CPRM) standard and MPEG 2 AAC audio. CPRM technology scrambles broadcast programs and only allows single recording of content to DVD-R or RW discs formatted for Video Recording (VR).

CyberLink PowerDVD 5 already incorporated CPRM support for DVD-RW disc playback, and PowerDVD 6 has further added DVD-R (VR mode) and MPEG 2 AAC support, ensuring the best experience on the PC for replaying recorded digital TV content. PowerDVD 6 also add the MPEG 4 AAC decoder for .3gp and .3g2 streaming video, a popular video format among Japanese cell phone companies.

“Digital TV is a reality, with many countries already upgrading their technologies and broadcasting content, and consumers looking to record and playback their programs via DVD,” said Alice H. Chang. “CyberLink enables customers to embrace this trend in digital entertainment by supporting playback of protected content in accordance with the latest audio and video standards.”

  • D Lowrey

    You got lucky that your client did as you suggested. Having worked in tech support before…found that you can tell the user who contacted you to never open attachments or do other things till you’re blue in the face. They will do it again…since it’s their computer and they “know” better than someone with years of experience and training.

    Too bad that some users computers don’t have shockable mice/keyboards. They do something stupid…they get a shock. The downside is you get a user like Moe who enjoys the pain.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XCKAPQZBC2L4VWRTT2I7U3H42I BillP

    Hello, Sherman. I’ve commented before here – I always check the hard disk drive with the manufacturer’s diagnostic software first. Always. Even if I hear a story like your customer’s…About 10% of the time it’s a bad hard disk drive, and I’ve wasted no time/effort on software (Windows) diagnostics. (Heard same kind of story last night – asked them to drop off same night – diagnosed bad drive – up and running today with new drive from stock. All the data was recoverable(!) ).

    If customer elects to get new computer (exceedingly rare), I try to keep old computer to properly recycle, or re-use for a low-income customer. The bad hard disk drive gets destroyed here – they are taken apart and scrapped for the aluminum. BillP