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To: Grantcw who wrote (39108)	3/8/1999 6:04:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Forbes likes the Sigma card best............................... forbes.com Unfortunately, the dirty little secret of computer-based DVD is that most hardware and software decoders currently on the market do a lousy job of playing and deinterlacing movies properly. On a good display, these second-rate solutions can look far worse than on TV, because the interlace artifacts appear so clearly and so close. One telltale sign: titles that jitter. When I played movie DVDs with the Quadrant card that came in a top-shelf Dell Pentium III machine, video projectors mercilessly revealed just how dreadful they looked. The software-based ATI decoder in a new 500-megahertz PIII Hewlett-Packard Pavilion deinterlaced movies correctly; too bad it often lost picture or sound entirely. The best DVD decoder I've tried is the Hollywood Plus card from Sigma Designs. It's included in add-on DVD player kits from several vendors and can be tricky to set up, but once you have it adjusted properly, it can make DVD movies look like real film.