PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 Contents: Product Summary Key Features Specifications Product Summary $350.00 Order Today! Creative Labs, the creator of Sound Blaster and the market leader in multimedia upgrade kits once again leads the world in bringing you the future generation of digital home-entertainment to your PC and living room With Creative PC-DVD Encore Dxr2, you get technologies and experiences totally unprecedented on your PC today, such as vibrant digital imagery of MPEG-2 video that’s uniquely enhanced for high-definition and smoothness, the sparkling clarity and room-shaking thunder of Dolby� Digital (AC-3™) audio with cinema-like surround-sound, and massive high-speed storage. It’s as if the future is already here. PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 is the DVD upgrade kit for your PC, which includes a second-generation PC-DVD ROM drive combined with the PCI-based Dxr2 card that includes state-of-the-art picture enhancement technology and MPEG-2/Dolby Digital decoding. With PC-DVD Encore, you get 7 futuristic entertainment solutions for an incredibly low price. Back to Top Key Features Feature 1 DVD Player for your TV The Dxr2 board comes with high-quality, S-video and composite outputs for connecting to your PC. Feature 2 DVD Player for your PC A high-definition, resolution-enhanced DVD player on your PC monitor in a fully-resizeable window. Feature 3 Blazing 20x Speed CD-ROM Drive Access time of 100 ms and compatibility with all CD formats including CD-Recordable. Feature 4 2nd-Generation, 2x Speed DVD-ROM Drive Stores up to 17 gigabytes of data. No more CD-R incompatibility which plagues all first-generation DVD-ROM drives. Feature 5 VideoCD (H/W MPEG-1 Player) For both your PC and TV. A bonus in case you want to play some of the thousands of Video-CD titles available. Feature 6 Dxr2, State-of-the-Art Picture Enhancement Feature 7 Dolby� Digital (AC-3™) Audio To wrap up the awesome features, PC-DVD Encore comes with Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio output. You can enjoy the hi-fidelity acoustic clarity of Dolby Digital audio, down-mixed to 2 channels on your PC sound system or you can have a full-blown, room-shaking, theater-like experience of a 6-speaker (5.1 channel) surround system with an optional low-cost consumer Dolby Digital receiver. Back to Top Specifications Creative Dxr2 Board: DynamicXtended Resolution (Dxr2) picture enhancement technology enables the playback of high-definition video with smoother full-screen video images for a more enjoyable video experience. Vertical and horizontal interpolation filters and double-scanning at up to 60 fields/second are utilized to provide virtually no artifacts at Windows� resolutions of up to 1280x1024. Onboard connectors for audio output to sound cards, audio input from DVD-ROM drive, and audio input from CD-ROM drive Back-panel connectors for RCA jack S/PDIF out; VGA output, VGA input, S-Video and composite video output Playback MPEG-2, MPEG-1, and DVD 1.0 video at up to 30 frames second (NTSC) or 24 frames/second (PAL) Playback Dolby Digital (AC-3) 5.1 channel audio, stereo audio (down-mixed from 5.1 channel, Dolby Digital audio), linear PCM audio, and MPEG audio (Video CD) TV output includes support for: NTSC at 640x400 and 600x400 at 60Hz PAL at 640x480 and 800x600 50Hz Composite and S-video signals Supports Windows resolutions of up to 1280x1024 at 24-bit color Video overlay implementation Dolby Digital (AC-3) 5.1 channel audio requires an amplifier or receiver with Dolby Digital input. Creative internal PC-DVD Drive: Maximum data transfer rate of 2,700 KB/second (DVD) and 3,000 KB/second (CD) Data access time of 170 ms (DVD) and 100 ms (CD) 512 KB integrated buffer memory Supports CD-Audio, CD-I, CD Extra, CD-ROM, CD-ROM/XA, Photo CD�, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, Video CD, and DVD-Video DVD data capacity of 17 GB (dual layer, double-sided) 9.4 GB (single-layer, double-sided) 8.5 GB (dual layer) 4.7 GB (single layer) CD data capacity of 748 MB (mode 2) and 656 MB (mode 1) Front-loading tray mechanism Front panel controls for stereo headphone jack, volume, and eject/stop Supports horizontal and vertical installation and operation Back to Top Information Request Form Select the items that apply, and then let us know how to contact you.