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PowerDVD 14 Ultra $100.00

Support for Blu-ray, 3D, Ultraviolet, 4K and h.265 make PowerDVD the closest thing to an all-encompassing multimedia center you'll find. But it's still a few features short.

Tired of constantly switching between iTunes, Windows Media Player, VLC, and other programs for different media tasks? I am. Cyberlinks PowerDVD, with its support for Blu-ray and 4K as well as most other types of video, audio, and images has the potential to be that all-in-one media solution weve been searching for. The latest iteration, PowerDVD 14, is close but no cigar due to some missing basics. However, the addition of support for up-and-coming technologies such as h.265 and the UltraViolet media delivery system make it a uniquely powerful player.

PowerDVD 14, which runs on Windows PCs, comes in three flavorsthe $50 Standard version, which handles DVD and HD files; the $80 Pro, which adds Blu-ray and 4K support; and the $100 Ultra which throws in 3D and the companys Power Media Player app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. All three versions include PowerDVD Remote for iOS and Android which allows you to use your mobile devices asyou guessed ita remote control for PowerDVD.

In terms of what you see on the screen, PowerDVD 14 is the best Blu-ray/DVD/video player out there. Normal playback includes hardware acceleration, but theres also a CPU mode with TrueTheater enhancements which will make a lot of materialprimarily DVDslook more high-def. The interface is handsome and well thought out, with the notably unintuitive exception of having to click on the fast forward icon to slow down a video. Theres also a ten-foot interface for use from your couch with the aforementioned remote software.

PowerDVDs 10-foot interface is much like Windows Media Centers.

My initial encounters with PowerDVD 14 were frustrating, due to the way it handled background tasks such as media collection and network path scouting. A pre-release update mostly fixed this; however, I still ran into instances where the program would seem to hang, especially at first run. The only other issues I ran into were the inability to drag files from an archive directly to PowerDVD (VLC can handle this), and just the audio portion of certain FLV videos being played.

In my other codec support tests, PowerDVD 14 played AVI/PCM, DivX 5, DivX HD, MPEG 1/2/4, Xvid, most FLV, Quicktime, AVCHD, WMV, h.264, and OGG Theora. Audio track support includes AAC and 5.1 Dolby Digital. PowerDVD 14 now also supports HEVC, the High Efficiency Video Codecmore on that in a bit.

In my music tests, PowerDVD 14 played 5.1 surround, FLAC, WMA, MP3, OGG Vorbis, APE, lossless WMA, Apple lossless (new), M4A, and all types of wave files up to 96kHz/32-bits (the max my system supports). PowerDVD also supports JPEG, BMP, TIFF (compressed and uncompressed), and PNG photos, and it offers some nice fades when you play a group as a slideshow. The photo browser is top-notch and presents your images in calendar style according to the data taken. Alas, theres no tag editing for photos or music files.

PowerDVD lets you browse your photos by calendar date. It also supports a wide variety of music files.

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Cyberlink PowerDVD 14 review: Media playback app has what you need -- almost

Hollywood actor Michael Douglas urged young people to use social media to push for arms control on Tuesday, as he launched a United Nations educational booklet on proliferation aimed at school and college students.

The book "Action for Disarmament: 10 Things You Can Do" offers a list of ways grass-roots activists can get involved in arms control efforts, such as organizing film screenings and discussion groups, or mounting a campaign via Twitter.

"To the youth here today I just want to tell you you guys you hold an enormous power, the power to make changes and make this world a better place to live," Douglas told an audience of students.

"Facebook, Youtube... and now Twitter are shaping the news and public opinions and attitudes.

"You can start a Twitter campaign or create a club... I encourage you to spread this message and be the new leaders of change."

Douglas, 69, said he was keenly aware of the issues surrounding nuclear weapons, noting that his father Kirk Douglas's parents had hailed from the Belarus city of Gomel, affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Douglas has been a UN Messenger of Peace since 1998, and regularly campaigns for disarmament.

UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane meanwhile told Tuesday's audience that $4.4 billion were spent on the military across the world every day.

"The world is overarmed and peace is underfunded," she said.

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Hollywood actor Michael Douglas has urged young people to use social media to push for arms control, as he launched a United Nations educational booklet on proliferation aimed at school and college students.

The book, Action for Disarmament: 10 Things You Can Do, offers a list of ways grass-roots activists can get involved in arms control efforts, such as organising film screenings and discussion groups, or mounting a campaign via Twitter.

'To the youth here today I just want to tell you you guys you hold an enormous power, the power to make changes and make this world a better place to live,' Douglas told an audience of students on Tuesday.

'Facebook, YouTube... and now Twitter are shaping the news and public opinions and attitudes.

'You can start a Twitter campaign or create a club... I encourage you to spread this message and be the new leaders of change.'

Douglas, 69, said he was keenly aware of the issues surrounding nuclear weapons, noting that his father Kirk Douglas's parents had hailed from the Belarus city of Gomel, affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Douglas has been a UN Messenger of Peace since 1998, and regularly campaigns for disarmament.

UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane meanwhile told Tuesday's audience that $US4.4 billion ($A4.7 billion) were spent on the military across the world every day.

'The world is overarmed and peace is underfunded,' she said.

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BURLINGTON, Mass. Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ CM: ATTU), a leading provider of information availability software solutions, announced today that Attunity Maestro, its new Big Data management and distribution platform, will be demonstrated live for the first time at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show 2014 in Las Vegas this week, from April 7-10. The new and innovative solution is designed to manage and accelerate the movement of large media files and Big Data content across worldwide data centers and the cloud - with ease and efficiency. The Company will demonstrate Attunity Maestro's capabilities live in Attunity's NAB booth #SL14808, located in the South Lower Level of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

With the announcement of Attunity Maestro's official launch on April 2, media companies and content professionals alike will now be empowered with automation and control to overcome the complex process of composing, conducting and monitoring data flow across their entire global enterprise. Common uses in the media industry include 'middle-mile' content distribution, data consolidation for central analytics, production code deployment, and datacenter migrations.

"Media companies and other content-driven organizations today are tasked with the daily challenge of designing and managing what are often complex processes for the distribution of large files," explained Lawrence Schwartz, Vice President of Marketing for Attunity. "The investment of time in these tasks places a huge burden on IT. Attunity Maestro is built from the ground up to alleviate the IT burden inherent in these processes and empower organizations with a self-service model. Companies no longer have to build these processes from scratch, and can focus IT resources on customer-facing services instead. Thanks to its simple point-and-click interface, all it takes is a few steps to set the solution's automated distribution process in motion across a global enterprise. It's a true industry stand out."

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-- Visit the Attunity booth #SL14808 at the NAB show -- Read the blogs -- Download the data sheet

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About the NAB Event NAB Show is the world's largest electronic media show covering filmed entertainment and the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums. With more than 93,000 attendees from 156 countries and 1,550+ Exhibitors, NAB Show is the ultimate marketplace for digital media and entertainment. From creation to consumption, across multiple platforms and countless nationalities, NAB Show is home to the solutions that transcend traditional broadcasting and embrace content delivery to new devices in new ways.

About Attunity

Attunity is a leading provider of information availability software solutions that enable access, management, sharing and distribution of data, including Big Data, across heterogeneous enterprise platforms, organizations, and the cloud. Our software solutions include data replication, data management, change data capture (CDC), data connectivity, enterprise file replication (EFR), managed-file-transfer (MFT), and cloud data delivery. Using Attunity's software solutions, our customers enjoy significant business benefits by enabling real-time access and availability of data and fileswhere and when needed, across the maze of heterogeneous systems making up today's IT environment.

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NDTV Role in Adding Fuel to the Fire During 2002 Riots

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