AUDIO
* Certified multi-channel DTS digital surround decoder to play DTS DVD-titles and DTS Audio CDs. (*)
* Dolby Pro Logic II decoder that processes stereo sources such as MP3, Audio CD, Video CD, Super Video CD and LPCM/MPEG Audio DVD into surround sound in a multi-speaker environment. (*)
* SRS TruSurroundXT(tm), an audio package containing TruSurround, Focus and TruBass, provides enhanced virtual surround sound and virtual bass experience through 2 speakers. (*)
* Allows interactive virtual speakers positioning by utilizing A3D and Microsoft DirectSound3D technologies.
* Supports Dolby Digital Dynamic Range Control for Quiet, Normal or Noisy environments. Also useful for boosting the audible volume on a notebook or laptop.
* Option to mix Low Frequency Effect for headphones, 2- and 4-speaker systems.
* Supports 8-channel sound cards like Guillemot GameTheater XP to play DVD titles with Dolby Digital Surround EX tracks and provides 8 discrete audio channels output. (*)
* Supports DTS/Dolby Digital multi-channel or SPDIF output under Windows XP and Windows 2000 (with Service Pack 2 installed) in Microsoft WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE interface. (*)

Note(*): Full multi-channel DTS/Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II decoder, Dolby Headphone and SRS TruSurroundXT features are all optional and may not be available in your PowerDVD XP version.

VIDEO
* Full range video adjustments including newly added contrast and saturation controls along with original brightness, yellow/blue and red/green controls.
* Four default video profiles : Original, Vivid, Bright, and Theater.
* The ability to create, define and save video profiles of your own!
* New Microsoft DirectX Video Acceleration WHQL certified. Supports DVD video playback by utilizing hardware MPEG video decoding circuits in ATI, Intel, NVidia, PowerVR and SiS display chips/integration chipsets under Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME and Windows 98.
* Supports full range of dual view display cards such as ATI Radeon 8500/7500, Radeon VE, NVidia GeForce2 MX/MX200/MX400 and Matrox series.
* Enhanced screen capture by utilizing CyberLink's proprietary interpolation technology. Option of capturing as original DVD video frame size (video source) or current video window size is available.
* Enhanced video de-interlacer and UV up-sampler.
* Widescreen monitors are supported with correct aspect ratio display of 16:9 movies and letterboxed 4:3 movies.

PLAYBACK FORMATS
* Supports playback of all DVD formats: DVD Video, DVD Video Recording (on DVD-RAM or DVD-RW), cDVD (DVD on CD-R/RW), cdDVD, and miniDVD.
* Supports playback of Super Video CD and Video CD 2.0 discs.
* DVD files can be played and previewed directly from any folder in your HDD. * Compatible with new DVD-RAM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+RW or DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive with 1394, ATAPI, SCSI or Card Bus interface.

NAVIGATION AND USER CONTROLS
* Enhanced Toolbar navigator: speed slider added. Customize your toolbar by deciding what functions you would like to include. Options of showing toolbar only under full screen mode is also provided.
* Video windows always on top option.
* Mouse scrolling setting: customized mouse scroller functions include "Shuttle Reverse/Forward", "Previous/Next Chapter", "Volume Adjustment" or "Time Seek".
* Time Seek with duration from 1 to 600 seconds by using "Page Up" and "Page Down".
* DVD Auto-Resume playback: if a movie playback is interrupted, the next time you will have the freedom to view from the beginning of the movie or resume from the point of interruption.
* Slow/Fast/Step forward/backward playback from speeds of 1/8X (Express Menu only) to 32X!

MISCELLANEOUS
* Microsoft WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Lab) certified with Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium and Windows 98. New look-and-feel of Windows XP windows and dialogues are fully integrated.
* Title information and dynamic bitrate monitor displays current position in title and video bitrate (fixed or variable), audio encoding type, channel information and audio bitrate.
* Optimized for Intel SSE2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 2) and AMD 3DNow! Professional (in new generation of Athlon and Duron processors) instruction sets.
* New i-Power DVDonet.com portal for the latest DVD news and resources. Portal pages can be updated and viewed later offline.
* Scalable Skin Technology: four newly designed and revised skins including Crystal XP, Oscar XP, Neo XP and Epiphany XP. With each skin, you can toggle between the full functioning version and a minimized version for desktop space efficiency.
* Import and export your favorite DVD bookmarks from/to another computer.

ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF PowerDVD XP 4.0
* Dolby Headphone support
* AB repeat function
* Proprietary "Dual Subtitles" technology. Suitable for language learning along with AB repeat function
* Closed Captioning decoder
* Digital Zoom function
* System diagnostic tools including a DMA enabling/status detecting tool for all kinds of system chipsets from Intel, VIA, SiS, ALi and AMD. Supports Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows 95 OSR2.
* Supports Microsoft HID (Human Interactive Devices) interface for HID compliant multimedia keyboards like those from Logitech, Microsoft, or other input devices to control PowerDVD XP directly.
* OSD (On Screen Display) support. Can change font type, font size, font color, display duration, display location and background OSD color.
* Information page in PowerDVD XP 4.0 configuration displays player status, display mode, video/audio/subpicture attributes and complete hardware information.
* Visual bookmark viewer and flexible bookmark management. No need to manually write scene descriptions for each bookmark.
* Visual chapter viewer
* Multi-user parental control and user management
* Flexible screen capture to any folder, Windows desktop, or Windows Clipboard
* Option of displaying widescreen movies in Letterbox or Pan&Scan mode. Under Pan&Scan mode, you can hold down the mouse button and drag in order to pan the video.
* Plays a wide range of media files as well as audio CD and Video CD