Along with the cloud subscription offering (PowerDVD LIVE allows for seamless experience across multiple devices using the 'PLAY with CyberLink Cloud' and Director Suite LIVE allows users to 'CREATE with CyberLink Cloud'), this points to CyberLink ensuring stability of revenue generation in its business model that has seen rough weather due to declining PC (and in turn, OEM licensing of its software) sales.Īs Blu-ray continues to lose relevance as the primary method of content consumption in HTPCs, CyberLink has started to retarget the PowerDVD application as a 'Power Media Player'. But, before, that, a table summarizing the various editions of PowerDVD 14 is provided below:īlu-ray Support up to Profile 2.0 (BD Live OK, no 3D)Ī new entry in the above table is the PowerDVD Live version which is basically the Ultra edition packaged in a subscription model with guaranteed access to the latest version of the software as long as the subscription is live. Without further digression, we move on to the new features in CyberLink PowerDVD 14. CyberLink has been quick to latch on to this trend, and is offering a cloud backend for their latest PowerDVD version along with HEVC support. The other buzz-word that has been making the rounds in the tech industry is the 'cloud'. This year, the vendors in this space need to provide HEVC/H.265 support on the core features front. At that time, support for the mobile ecosystem was one of the most important targets for CyberLink. A couple of years back, we reviewed CyberLink's PowerDVD 12 in detail.

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