PowerDVD 9 patch to bring bitstreaming to Radeon 5000 users

Now here’s a cool announcement. If you’ve been holding off on spending several hundred dollars on a sound card just for this, you’re soon to be in luck! I think this is significant if only because it’s one more point that can no longer be made by the old home theater crowd for why HTPCs aren’t good.

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Well the wait is over this Friday — if you use PowerDVD — because Cyberlink is set to release a patch for PowerDVD 9 that will enable bitstream goodness to those equipped. Yep, that means the wait is over and you can finally build a HTPC that will match even the best Blu-ray player feature for feature.