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Corel(R) Launches All New, Fully Integrated InterVideo(R) WinCinema(R).


All-In-One Universal Player Provides OEMs with Fast, Easy Way to Turn PC/CE Devices into Home Entertainment Centers

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), a leading provider of digital media software, today announced the launch of its new InterVideo[R] brand WinCinema[R], a fully integrated, standalone 10-foot interface style solution for watching TV and videos, playing music, viewing photos and listening to radio broadcasts. With WinCinema, OEMs and system integrators can quickly and cost-effectively enhance their Vista and XP-based products with entertainment features that will appeal to consumers with every level of experience. Corel[R] will demonstrate how WinCinema turns a PC/CE device such as a desktop or notebook PC, TV Tuner, or optical drive into a home entertainment center at its CES Booth #35377 in the South Hall this week.

"Using a remote control is second nature for today's consumers," said Blaine Mathieu, General Manager of Corel's Digital Media business. "The next step for the home digital media entertainment experience is extending the range of applications users have at their fingertips. WinCinema is a landmark product to help hardware manufacturers bring digital media that much further into the mainstream lifestyle."

InterVideo WinCinema is a fully integrated, standalone product that seamlessly combines all digital entertainment playback features in a single application. It is ideal for providing Windows Media Center See Media Center Edition.  Edition (MCE See Media Center Edition. ) features on Windows[R] Vista[TM] Home Basic and XP-based products where MCE capabilities are not pre-bundled. For Vista Premium systems, which do include MCE, WinCinema also includes a set of MCE plug-ins to provide additional valuable features such as HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc playback, TV support, DVD authoring, and real-time MPEG-2 encoding.

For OEM customers, a single release of WinCinema can address their needs for systems with Vista Home Basic See Windows Vista versions.  and systems with Vista Premium. The same product can also be released on XP Embedded systems to provide InstantON functionality.

What sets WinCinema apart from other software applications is its universal support. WinCinema is a universal player with universal content source and format support. Using Vista's fully customizable Avalon (WPF) GUI and WinCinema's support for the CD, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
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, Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats See HD DVD and high-def DVD formats. , users can move easily from playing music and videos to viewing photo slideshows and watching TV. Major TV broadcast formats are supported, including analog, ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) An international digital television (DTV) standard adopted by the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Argentina. , DVB-T See DVB. , and DVB-S See DVB. . WinCinema is capable of playing back multimedia content from UPnP media server devices on a digital home network. IMCSVR, a DLNA-certified media server software bundled with WinCinema, can also be used to manage and stream digital entertainment content from a PC to other UPnP-connected devices throughout the user's digital home network.

Availability

InterVideo WinCinema is available through Corel for licensing to OEMs, system integrators and platform builders developing PC and CE devices.

About Corel Corporation

Corel is a leading global packaged software company with over 40 million users. The Company provides full-featured, easy-to-use productivity, graphics and digital imaging software and enjoys a favorable market position among consumers and small businesses. The Company's award-winning product portfolio features popular, globally recognized brands, including CorelDRAW[R] Graphics Suite, Corel[R] Paint Shop Pro[R], Corel[R] Snapfire[TM], Corel[R] Painter[TM], Corel DESIGNER[R], Corel[R] WordPerfect[R] Office, WinZip[R] and iGrafx[R]. With hundreds of industry awards for leadership in software innovation, design and value, Corel's products have built a loyal following of customers and partners around the globe. Corel's products are sold in over 75 countries through an international network of resellers and retailers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Corel's global websites.

Corel Corporation announced the completion of its acquisition of InterVideo, Inc., a leading provider of digital media authoring and playback software with a focus on high-definition video and DVD technologies, on December 12, 2006. In 2006, InterVideo[R] acquired Ulead, a leading developer of video imaging and DVD authoring software for desktop, server, mobile and Internet platforms.

[c] 2007 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, CorelDRAW, Paint Shop Pro, Snapfire, Painter, Corel DESIGNER, WordPerfect, WinZip, iGrafx, InterVideo, WinCinema, Ulead and the Corel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. All other product, font and company names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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