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The Creative DVD's usually come with a card that when installed does
hardware decoding. The DVD should work fine for reading regular CD Media as
well. It won't be as fast as the 36X or 40X you normally see these days.
Dan Shaughnessy
>A client ordered a AMD K6 3D 350 system with CD-recordable
>and a DVD III player. He did specify "hardware decoding"
>I have been looking at the Creative Encore 5x
>http://www.soundblaster.com/mmuk/encore-5x/specs.html
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> A couple of questions:
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>Has anyone used this drive or do you have any other suggestions for a
>hardware decoding DVD?
>Will this drive read all formats of cd media ?
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>Creative says it will read: CD-Audio, CD-I, CD Extra, CD-ROM, CD-ROM/XA,
> CD-WO, Photo CDŽ, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, and DVD-Video.
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>Will he also need a regular CDrom to reliably read his cdrs?
>I Would appreciate any help, I'm not familar with DVD players
>and need to build this system ASAP.
>
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