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To: JPM who wrote (31631)	3/30/1998 1:43:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

No kidding, especially when you can buy a daughtercard for $30-$50 and do it in hardware. I guess they can ship very low cost DVD-ROM systems with the DVD software (if Intel lowers it CPU prices sufficiently), and then try to sell the upgrade later.

To: JPM who wrote (31631)	3/31/1998 12:57:00 PM
From: mpegleg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

> Did you all notice on the INTC DVD release that their > requirements are for a 266MHz pentium I believe... and > while running DVD, it will use 80%ish of the processor. > Makes you wonder who will buy. Intel has said they "measure" the percent of the processor left while running DVD by running a separate program that "steals" increasing percentages of the clock cycles until the DVD starts dropping frames. This has always seemed fishy to me. What about the percentage of memory bandwidth used? If 20% of the CPU cycles are available, but 0% of the bandwidth, its not very useful. And then you weigh these kind of claims against reviews of Compaq's 4850 (Zoran SoftDVD, ATI H/W motion comp) where they say 23-25 frames per second with no other applications running (PC Magazine). 23? Doesn't sound like their is a useful percentage of the CPU left! And this was a 300 MHz machine, 48 meg SDRAM, etc.