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  1. 10-12-2001, 07:03 PM #1
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    I'm looking into getting an MPEG-2 decoder card. Is it worth the extra money, or do you not gain that much quality out of them? If they are worth it, which one would you reccomend? Thanks.

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    *bump*

    Anyone??

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    I'm using a software decoder with my GF2 MX. I can't see how the quality could be better. If you had an underpowered system, then you could consider it, but I wouldn't waste the money

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    That's kinda the direction I was leaning...

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    Hardware decoding would help if you're displaying the video on a large screen TV. For a regular monitor and a modern system like yours, software decoding is fine.

    Then there's always the Radeon video card option with excellent hardware decoding built in.

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