CyberLink Live Launches Premium Service for Remote Media Access.TAIPEI, Taiwan -- CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), innovative solutions provider for the connected digital lifestyle, today announced the release of CyberLink Live Premium, the secure and personal web service for remote media access. CyberLink Live Premium's place-shifting technology allows users to access digital media as well as business documents stored on a remote PC via a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Targeted at the media enthusiast A person who enjoys using computers and electronic equipment. Enthusiasts like technology and are willing to learn more of the ins and outs of a product than the average consumer, who just wants to use it. An enthusiast is more like a "prosumer." See consumer and prosumer. , CyberLink Live Premium offers advanced capabilities including: * Hosted relay services to enable connectivity across firewalls * Optimized bandwidth for the best TV, video, and photo streaming quality for full screen displays, and CD-quality audio streaming See streaming audio. * Scheduled recording of live TV programs * Electronic program guides for scheduling broadcast TV programs * Downloading of photos, videos, audio and documents * Uploading and management of all sorts of document file formats A document file format is a text or binary file format for storing documents on a storage media, especially for use by computers. There currently exist a multitude of incompatible document file formats. The file format currently used by Microsoft Word (. * Support for all types of file formats * Webcam (WEB CAMera) A video camera that is used to send periodic images or continuous frames to a Web site for display. Webcam software typically captures the images as JPEG or MPEG files and uploads them to the Web server. monitoring, including motion-detection recording, scheduled recording, and manual recording of up to 3 hours. "CyberLink Live is CyberLink's vision of tomorrow's digital lifestyle," said Alice H. Chang, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CyberLink. "It is the gateway to the new world of ubiquitous connectivity, taking digital home entertainment outside the home to anywhere in the world." CyberLink Live Premium is available through two subscription plans. The best-value 12-month plan is priced at around US$4 per month, while a 3-month plan is priced at around US$6 per month. CyberLink Live is also available in a free version, CyberLink Live Basic, offering a limited set of features for first-timers to experience the convenience of remote media access. About CyberLink Live The Home PC as a Broadcast Station for Personal Media 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 their home PC into a broadcast station for personal media. 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 content, audio, photos, documents and webcam videos -- by simply logging into the CyberLink Live website. If a TV tuner An electronic part of a radio or TV that locks on to a selected carrier frequency (station, channel) and filters out the audio and video signals for amplification and display. is installed on the home PC, users can stream live TV programs with time-shift playback Playback could mean:
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 To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. the Live Basic version, please visit: www.cyberlinklive.com. About CyberLink CyberLink Corp is the leader and pioneer in enabling digital multimedia on PCs and CEs. http://www.cyberlink.com. |
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