CyberLink's Profile 1.1-enabled PowerDVD shown at CES

Just a few weeks back, we were able to grab a sneak peek at Resident Evil: Extinction's Bonus View feature, and now Blu-ray.com has yet another preview we figure the BD camp will be interested in seeing. Apparently, CyberLink was busy demonstrating its forthcoming Profile 1.1-enabled PowerDVD 7 Ultra software at CES, which allowed Sunshine to be played back "perfectly" with picture-in-picture enabled. Also, they were able to confirm that the aforementioned application will indeed play nice with DTS-HD tracks and that DTS-HD MA support was just around the bend. Reportedly, the update will be available gratis to current owners of PowerDVD Ultra next month.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2008 3:18PM]

Is the profile 1.1 update available only to the purchased copies of Cyberlink's PowerDVD Ultra? I purchased an LG Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo drive and this software came with it. I can play nearly all Blu-Ray discs I've tried, but 3:10 to Yuma won't play, and I read it was because of the profile incompatibility. Also, Sunshine plays, but freezes at random spots through the film, just restarting the app solves this - but still annoying to stop and restart the app and movie.
There are no updates listed in PowerDVD when I run the upgrade/update utility. Do I have to get a purchase-version to get this update?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2008 6:28PM]

So this will play nice with every BD title released to date I guess. got WinDVD running on my Vaio FZ and it will not play "LOST S3". Anyway I have a HDMI 1.3 AVR and my laptop has HDMI, but how can I check if I can use bitstream for audio DTS-MA.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2008 6:28PM]

Nice, but please add support to play MKV files too!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2008 7:07PM]

So Ben and Co .. Ready to post an errata about your infamous "Whatever that means" article from a month aggo?
http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/29/windvd-gets-blu-ray-profile-1-1-certification-whatever-that-mea/

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2008 7:09PM]

Nota: It is not the same company/product indeed, but both went through the same process of certification (with WinDVD), and here we go, we get the 1.1 product a month later.

[Dalhectar Posted Jan 13th 2008 9:37PM]

Personally, I want to see better MCE integration.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 2:28AM]

same here. If I could get my HD DVDs and Blu-rays to play perfectly in Vista Media Center I would get rid of my standalones.