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 http://camalott.com/~rssmith mailto:[log in to unmask] PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html