Features Include:

Spellbinding Video and Audio Quality

• Top Video Technologies - Intel® Clear Video™ and nVidia® Pure Video™ graphics acceleration for the ultimate in High-Definition Playback.
• Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Support - Multitask and still enjoy smooth video with the latest Intel® chips.
• Cinematic effect - Provides a more "film look" playback.
• Progressive De-interlace - WinDVD has superior deinterlacing options to make sure your videos look great on any kind of screen.
• SmartStretch - Fills your widescreen TV when viewing 4:3 movies, by intelligently stretching only the edges of the video and maintaining the center portion of the image.
• Video Effects - Customise and improve the look of your film with Cinema Enhancement, Old Film, Sharpness, deinterlacing, and more!

Great Audio Features

• Superior Audio Center - WinDVD 8 provides a centralized audio controller which incorporates great audio features. It includes support for Dolby® Digital, Dolby® Headphone, Dolby® Virtual Speaker, Dolby Digital 2-channel for a immersive listening experience.
• Speaker Control - Adjust the sound balance of your speakers and get the best out of your digital home entertainment experience.
• SRS audio technologies - The SRS audio technologies in WinDVD 8 enhance the dialog quality of a movie or the rich bass tones of your music.
• 96 kHz/24 Bit Audio Decoding - WinDVD takes care of the audiophiles out there by supporting 96 kHz/24 bit audio decoding.
• IVHP (InterVideo Headphone) - Experience superior surround sound with InterVideo’s IHP technology, offering a virtual surround sound effect on standard headphones.

Universal Format Support

• The Latest in Video formats - Play HD or standard definition video encoded in any of a range of formats, recorded from HDTV, camcorder, or downloaded from the Web.
• Standard Definition Video - Play your video clips in any of the standard-definition formats, including DVD-Video, DivX®, Real® Player, QuickTime®, Windows Media.
• 3GPP/3GPP2 File Format Support - Video Only
• Subtitle Control - Watch downloaded AVI, WMV, or DivX file with external subtitle files. These files are typically downloaded separately, and WinDVD 8 not only merges the subtitle file with the movie, but allows you to adjust the placement, subtitle colour and size.
• The Most Dynamic Audio - Bask in glorious sound with support for Dolby®, DTS and SRS Technologie
• Dolby Virtual Speakers - Dolby Virtual Speaker technology uses an advanced psychoacoustics algorithm to create a compelling 5.1 surround sound environment using two speakers only.
• Dolby Headphone - Combines 5.1 surround signals to create a vivid surround sound environment on standard headphones.

Fun Extras

• Boss Key - Now you see it, now you don't! One click pops the player out of the way.
• Colour Themes - Personalise the look of your player to match your mood or your desktop.
• Instant Replay - Jump back to the line you missed, or catch that action sequence again!
• QuickClip 2 - Grab your favorite movie scene as an animated picture file that you can easily share with friend via email or your mobile phone!
• Smooth Reverse Playback - WinDVD 8 supports smooth reverse playback without frame drops.
• Video Desktop - Select Video Desktop from the display subpanel to let the movie play in the background, just like Windows wallpaper.
• LanguageMate™ - Use LanguageMate to help learn new languages or refresh old skills. Watch a movie in a foreign language and repeat sentences and phrases to practice.
• MyPlayback - Create your own playlists with audio tracks or video files from DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs and CDs. Bookmark favorite spots and save them as a file (.bmk) for later, or export to a friend.

Minimum System Requirements:

Windows

Processor

• Intel® Pentium® 4 1.0 GHz, Intel® Pentium® M 1.0 GHz, or above (Minimum)
• Intel® Pentium® dual core processor 2.8 or above (Recommended)
  

RAM

• 256 MB system memory (Minimum)
• 512 MB system memory or above (Recommended)
  

Operating System

• Microsoft® Windows® XP and Microsoft® Windows Vista® (Minimum)
  

Sound

• PCI sound card or on-board audio card (Minimum)
  

Graphics Card

• AGP or PCI Express graphic accelerator with DirectDraw Overlay Support (Minimum)
• AGP or PCI Express graphic accelerator with HWMC, DirectDraw Overly Support (VRAM 64 MB and above) (Recommended)
  

Hard Drive

• 200 MB of hard disk space (Minimum)
  

Optical Disc

• DVD-ROM, DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo, DVD-R/RW, DVD+RW or DVD-RAM drive with 1394, ATAPI, SCSI, USB 2.0 or Card Bus interface
  
  

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