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To: Joe NYC who wrote (33813)	3/27/2001 6:18:23 PM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

Joe: As far as decompression, the mainstream CPUs do just fine decompressing the DVD. I would tend to disagree. I don't think I would be willing to spend additional $100 to add general purpose DSP to my computer. The price of a mass-produced GP DSP capable of e.g. mpeg compression runs less than a tenth of that. Additionally, you already have several DSP-type chips in your system (e.g. sound and networking). Consolidating these into one general purpose DSP might make a lot of sense. You could actually get good quality on-board sound, broadband / ethernet, along with the real-time mpeg (de)compression. -fyo