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To: timbur who wrote (10513)	2/4/1999 7:46:00 PM
From: Jeffrey P	Respond to of 16960

OT - 5X DVD Tim, I agree with you 99%. I had a similar problem with the first encore 5x i bought, I took it back and noticed that the drive had a different firmware revision. Furthermore, I felt that there was a serious problem with the passthrough also, both of which seem to go away or decrease significantly by swaping out the drive. When I pulled off the origional pass-thru I noticed a couple "burrs" on the vga connector so my perception of the cable was suspect to begin with. I bought it for the "gadget", and I was building a couple systems at the time. Full screen is relatively good, but nothing compared to a standalone DVD of course. Would I buy again... probably not, does V3 with DVD acceleration sound like a solution... maybe. One the other hand... there are several software DVD decoders out there that I have not tried that would definately get rid of the passthru cable. BTW.. I also tried the Sony drive with the Realmagic card and I liked the Creative product better. Jeff P.