Its here!
nbcnews.com
Excerpt:
If your holiday wish list includes a new Pentium II
PC with a second-generation DVD-ROM drive,
you can start your shopping at www.dell.com. On
Tuesday, Dell Computer Corp. announced the
availability of Dimension XPS D300-DVD, a
300-MHz Pentium II PC complete with
DVD-ROM drive, hardware DVD decoder, and
Altec Lansing USB-controlled surround-sound
speakers-among many other goodies. And for a
direct price of just $2,879 fully loaded, this
machine is a huge bargain....
Also....
For decoding MPEG-2 and AC3 (Dolby Digital audio)
signals, the Dimension uses a Quadrant International
CineMaster C-1.2D card, a PCI board that talks to the
machine's graphics accelerator card via a pass-through
cable. Full-screen, 30-fps MPEG-2 video decoding is
performed by C-Cube Microsystems' single-chip ZiVA
DS-C decoder, while AC3 audio is handled by a Zoran chip.
The ZiVA chip is compatible with all DVD standards, and
offers NTSC/PAL DVD video decoding, CD-ROM data
decoding, as well as full VideoCD 2.0 compatibility. |
