
Taipei, Taiwan----April 25, 2008----CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), innovative solutions provider for the connected digital lifestyle, today announced the release of CyberLink Live Premium, the secure and personal remote media access web services. CyberLink Live Premium’s place-shift technology allows users to access their digital media as well as business document files stored in a remote PC from a web browser. Targeted at the media enthusiasts, CyberLink Live Premium offers advanced capabilities including:
“CyberLink Live is CyberLink's vision of tomorrow's digital lifestyle,” said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. “It is the gateway to the new world of ubiquitous connectivity, bringing digital home entertainment outside the home to anywhere in the world.”
CyberLink Live Premium is available in two subscription plans. The best value 12-month plan is priced at around US$4 per month and the 3-month plan for US$6 per month. CyberLink Live is also available in a free version, CyberLink Live Basic. It provides a limited set of features for the first-timers to experience the convenience of remote media access.
Home PCs as the Personal Media Broadcast Station
CyberLink Live consists of a home media server application that lets users define the media files they want to access from another PC, thus turning the home PC into a personal media broadcast station. By using network media streaming technologies, users are able to access the media that resides in their home PCs via the CyberLink Live website (www.cyberlinklive.com)
Place-shifting Personal Media
CyberLink Live lets users remotely access their personal media—including live TV, video, audio, photos, document and webcam videos—by simply logging into the CyberLink Live website. If a TV tuner is installed on the home PC, users can stream live TV programs with time-shift playback directly from the CyberLink Live website.
Media Sharing with Friends and Family
Aside from personal access, CyberLink Live also offers a way to share photos and videos with invited friends and family. It provides a secure way for users to give other people access to the files they want to share from their home PC.
For more information or to download the Live Basic version, please visit: www.cyberlinklive.com.
About CyberLink Live
CyberLink Live is CyberLink's vision of tomorrow's digital lifestyle, bringing digital home entertainment outside the home to anywhere in the world. By placeshifting users' media content from their home PCs, so they can remotely access live TV shows, recorded TV, webcams, videos, photos, music, and document from a web-enabled device outside the home.
Aside from personal access, CyberLink Live is also a way to share personal media with friends and family without lengthy file uploads onto the Internet. CyberLink Live provides a secured way to invite people to play shared media, watch photos in animated slideshows, read and write comments. This is only our first step to create media entertainment on the web. The CyberLink Live website is: www.cyberlinklive.com
About CyberLink
CyberLink Corp is the leader and pioneer in enabling digital multimedia on PCs and CEs. Backed by a group of high-caliber software engineers, CyberLink owns its core codec and a number of patented technologies. Today, CyberLink has built a solid reputation for delivering high-quality, interoperable, and fast time-to-market solutions that keep our OEM partners on the leading edge. Our business partners include leaders in the PC industry: drive manufacturers, graphics-card makers, and top-5 desktop and notebook brands. CyberLink Software Solutions include: complete applications for Blu-ray Discs, Digital Home entertainment, Mobile TV and eHRD solutions. With customers spanning from multi-national corporations to small/medium-sized businesses, and from power users to home users, CyberLink has enjoyed rapid and consistent growth leading to a record breaking IPO in 2000 on the Taiwan Over The Counter Exchange (OTC: 5203). CyberLink is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: 5203.TW). CyberLink's worldwide headquarters is in Taipei. To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region, including Japan. For more information, please visit CyberLink's website at http://www.cyberlink.com
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