Ira Wallin wrote:
>
> Witha 733mhz PC, should I be concerned whether the DVD comes with hardware decoding or software decoding.  I had heard that on slower PCs (under 550mhz), software decoding was no good...you'd get a lot of skips.
> DELL stopped offering hardware decoding except for their most expensive sytems, and I wanted to know whether

   If the video card and RAM is decent then the software DVD decoder
usually works OK with a CPU above 300 MHZ. I bought my wife a Dell 450
Pentium III with 8X DVD, 16 MB Voodoo card and 256 MB RAM. DVD movies
play flawlessly.

Later,


Russell Smith
Edtech Consultant, Journalist
Region 14 ESC Abilene
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