The mpeg card is NOT included in this bundle, which is why it is labeled "DVD
Ready".  There is a slot on the sound card that one can put in the optional
card later on.  That card is about $170.00, before taxes.

Roxanne Pierce
R2 Systems, San Diego
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On Tuesday, March 10, 1998 01:26, [log in to unmask] [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
>         Hi.
>         In Spain, the Creative DVD alone is around $400 street price with
>         taxes.
>         DVD=Digital Video (or is it Versatile?) Disk. The substitute for
>         video tapes. Long delay to market. Perhaps with not definite specs.
>         No titles. 5 GB, I think; 17 GB in the future. Protection needed to
>         avoid perfect film copying.
>
>         Make sure that the mpeg card for DVD is included in the bundle.
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am buying my parents a gift of an upgrade/new CD rom and sound card.  I
> > saw a combo deal (Creative Labs) of a Sound Blaster 64 AWE (gold) and
> > 20x CDrom that says DVD and in smaller print "ready".  What does "DVD
> > ready" mean exactly?  The price was $239.  Thanks in advance.