What is the best DVD Decoder card?

[ChrisADuffy]

subj says all...thanks for inputs.

 

[MoMeanMugs]

I would definitely say the Hollywood+. Sigma Designs

 

[DaAvatar]

agreed !

100%


great card !

 

[ChrisADuffy]

Thanks!

 

[Reliant]

Another vote for the Hollywood+.
Cheap and it has great quality.

 

[Rand]

Agreed, definitely the Hollywood+

 

[ChrisADuffy]

hOLLYWOOD PLUS IS THE WINNER!!!

 

[Blayze]

I use the DXR3 from Creative.

It is basically a Hollywood card. I even use the Hollywood drivers in Windows 2000/XP.

 

[cmdrdredd]

the Hollywood+ is no longer supported fully. because Sigma Designs has a new card called the XCard that is to replace it.

Check that one out. Also I've tried the hollywood in Xp and it BSODs me ALOT! The Xcard didn't

 

[ChrisADuffy]

I don't like the sound of the bsod's, I also use Win xp pro. So I will keep my eye peeled for the X card. Thanks

 

[BFG10K]

Personally I wouldn't bother with a specialised DVD card when I can get a multipurpose video card in the form of a Radeon or a GeForce that plays DVDs just fine and does a lot of other things too.

 

[jwa]

<< Personally I wouldn't bother with a specialised DVD card when I can get a multipurpose video card in the form of a Radeon or a GeForce that plays DVDs just fine and does a lot of other things too. >>



But does it do the decoding using hardware on the graphics card or software? I thought the advantage to getting a hardware decoder was that it does the decoding so the software/processor do not have to.

 

[Superwormy]

Newer video cards do SOME of the hardware DVD decoding stuff, but not all of it. The Hollywood+ does ALL of it, I can play DVDs on a Pentium 200 with 32mb RAM and a Hollywood+, 10% CPU usage. Try that with a P200 and a Radeon card...