With support for a variety of media, including video, audio, and photographic content, this boxed version of the PowerDVD 20 Ultra from CyberLink serves not only as a Blu-ray disc player on your computer but an all-purpose entertainment station. It allows you to enjoy 8K, Ultra HD 4K, 360°, and HDR content, whether it’s from a file or an ISO image on your computer, a DVD or Blu-ray disc, streaming content from YouTube and Vimeo, which includes streaming directly to your compatible television, and more. In addition to online streaming, videos can be "pinned" to watch when you’re offline or on the road.
Features new to PowerDVD 20 Ultra include Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray ISO support, media streaming from the cloud to an Android/iOS device or a web browser, the ability to share your media collection with family and friends, media streaming from the PowerDVD Center to an Android/iOS device or web browser, an movie/TV info database, HDR10 to SDR (HEVC, VP9 10-bit) encoding, 8K YouTube playback, AI facial recognition for the photo library, and chapter/bookmark view with thumbnails. There is also seamless playback, so you can continue watching from where you left off, even on another device, and the ability to watch on the go, so you can not only watch movies stored in the cloud, but also download them for offline use.
PowerDVD 20 supports Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets to make 4K VR content accessible to users. It also supports 360° VR video with spatial audio using a headset, as well as 360° video without a headset.
PowerDVD 20 is certified by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) for the playback of Ultra HD Blu-ray discs. The Ultra HD Blu-ray format delivers 4K content at a 3840 x 2160 resolution, a greatly expanded color range, high dynamic range (HDR) content, and support for added sound formats.
As HDR-capable TVs continues to be released, PowerDVD 20 not only supports HDR but also TrueTheater HDR enhancements and expanded GPU support to emulate HDR video using standard footage. Other cinema-grade enhancements include support for Dolby and DTS audio within multichannel and lossless formats such as FLAC and DSD. Included is 100GB of CyberLink cloud storage, which is free for one year.
