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To: PaulW who wrote (33201)5/14/1998 10:04:00 AM
From: Don Dorsey  Read Replies (1) of 50808
 
The "Computer Game Developer's Conference" is a show where hardware manufacturers like to show off their latest technologies, hopeful that developers of entertainment software pick it up and develop applications based on it. Everyone who has followed the PC market in the past years knows how 3D accelerator cards have changed the face of computer gaming, just the way CD-ROM has and DVD will. It was interesting to see that literally every hardware manufacturer had something DVD related to show. Every video board company had at least two new boards in the program that had hardware MPEG-2 decoders on them to allow uninhibited DVD movie playback. Those boards have usually outputs that allow you to connect your computer to your TV set so that the comparably small size of your computer monitor is not an issue any more. Not a big deal, you might think, there have been boards before. And while this is correct, it is a clear sign when every vendor is suddenly putting those decoders on their boards at literally no additional cost. Those boards will retail at around $100, complete with 2D, 3D acceleration and MPEG-2 video decoding and many of those manufacturers are currently in the process of convincing computer manufacturers to include these boards in their systems. So, just like the DVD-ROM drives, we will see these boards shipped with every PC that goes over the counter by the end of the year.

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