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To: Ian deSouza who wrote (28178)	1/16/1998 1:42:00 PM
From: Ian deSouza	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

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.