Pocket PC Magazine award winning software developer DVD Catalyst is no stranger to the H/PC community. As the only DVD and Video conversion application to officially support the Handheld PC, through four successive major releases the company's flag-ship product - renamed DVD Catalyst at version 3.0 - has opened up video and entertainment on a diverse array of mobile devices.

After many months of testing and development, DVD Catalyst's fourth generation client has been released to the public for the first time today. DVD Catalyst 2.0 (PocketDVD 4.0) is an all-in-one mobile device video conversion solution, covering a wide array of mobile devices in a multitude of the industry's leading video formats. Amongst the highlights for the new release are:

• Completely new user interface, designed from the ground up for speed and precision
• Performance & Optimisation improvements making version 2.0 faster and more stable
• Extended device database, with new plug-in modules allowing for free device profiles to be added as they become available
• Significantly enhanced user device profile system
• Support for the latest DVD and Video Codec innovations
• Automatic cropping - DVD Catalyst now detects cinematic 'black bars' maximising your screens use on playback
• Convert for multiple devices at the same time, in the same session
• Completely new, comprehensive and updatable on-line help system

Demonstrating their confidence in the product, and unique in the sector. DVD Catalyst still stand offer an unrestricted, 5 day, no-catches trial of the full product allowing users to fully make use of all of the high-end benefits of the program, without any artificial limitations.
Best of all, for owners of any previous PocketDVD / DVD Catalyst release, upgrading to version 2.0 is completely free.

More information on the program, as well as links to the trial can be found on the DVD Catalyst website. Expect a full review of the new release here on HPC:Factor soon!

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