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To: John who wrote (17267)	6/20/1997 11:24:00 AM
From: BillyG	of 50808

If you spent the $$$ for a 233 MHz Pentium II and were selecting between two DVD drives, one using soft DVD which tied up your main processor, and the other using a blazing fast hardware decoder for $20 or $40 (or even $80) more, which one would you choose? You have to buy a DVD drive either way. The DVD drive has the laser pickups, photodetectors, servo controls, etc. If you want DVD output to a TV, and not just your PC monitor, you also need video and audio D/A converters and an NTSC/PAL encoder. I assume that soft-DVD also does the Dolby audio decoding. . . Do you put the soft DVD monkey on the Pentium II's back? I'm don't mean to be rude -- I just want to make sure you have thought this through.

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