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have one Sigma Designs REALmagic Hollywood+ DVD Decoding Card, and don't know what to do with this sucker...someone gives to me.
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what'z a dvd decoder card for?
- Thread starter tainice
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They used to be for playing DVD'S on your computer but with the new player software you no longer need it.
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Yeah, when DVD drives first started appearing on computers the processors didn't have enough horsepower for software decoding.
That's not a problem today, of course. But depending on what resolution you're playing back at you still might be able to see an improvement in picture quality through a hardware card. The Sigma Hollywood+ was the best card on the market. If it was free I'd play around with it.
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That's not a problem today, of course. But depending on what resolution you're playing back at you still might be able to see an improvement in picture quality through a hardware card. The Sigma Hollywood+ was the best card on the market. If it was free I'd play around with it.
BHD
