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Dec 5 9:30 AM EST

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To: Stoctrash who wrote (21113)	8/22/1997 2:10:00 PM
From: BillyG	of 50808

Where is Chromatic -- in Gateway DVD-PCs........ Gateway DVD using Pentium II 256MHz gets great review. But it's DVD video shows artifacts -- it uses Chromatics/Rambus on an STB board. www5.zdnet.com Excerpt below: <<The Pentium II chip isn't the only neoteric technology inside the G6-266XL. It includes an ATAPI Toshiba SD-M1002 DVD-ROM drive connected to an STB DVD decoder card. The PCI-based STB card features the Chromatic MPact Media Processor for MPEG-2 and AC-3 audio decoding, and 4MB of Rambus memory. Other than a DVD sample disc, no other DVD titles are included. At press time, Gateway was determining what its DVD software bundle would be. We took the DVD subsystem for a spin with a DVD movie we had in our office. It produced impressive sounding audio, but the video displayed some artifacts, especially when scaled to full screen. In all fairness to the G6-266XL, the playback was similar to other PC-based DVD solutions we have seen to date. [Guess they haven't experienced ZiVa] The DVD-ROM drive does double-duty as an 8x CD-ROM drive. The DVD image is produced onscreen via an overlay mode, achieved by an internal cable that jumpers the DVD card to the STB Nitro 3D graphics card. The PCI-based STB Nitro 3D is powered by an S3 Virge/GX chip with 4MB of EDO DRAM, and connected to a 21-inch Gateway Vivitron 1100 monitor.>>

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