I bought this piece of hardware to watch my DVDs on before I stumped up the cash to buy my stand-alone player, Boy was it a good choice. Having your DVD set up through your PC is good as the monitor can usually offer a better resolution can any TV and hence gives you a better and more detailed picture and with monitors anything up to 30" available its a good thing. This package helps the picture on your computer monitor be better than usual becuase it contains a hardware player and not just software, it comes with the Dxr3 PCI card which is a hardware decoder thus improving picture and play quality on your PC. Installing the unit into your PC is very easy ...  Read the complete review

I have been using the Creative 6x DVD-ROM with its accompanying mpeg decoder card for about a year now. Initially, this was to be my gentle let-in to DVD movies. However, avarice got the better of me, and I bought a stand-alone DVD player as well! The PC based solution was easy to install, and worked first time, both as a CD/DVD-ROM and for playing DVD movies. The movie action created via the MPEG decoder card is very smooth unlike some software decoders I have seen running on entry-level machines, and the software emulates a remote control in appearance. Inevitably (for me, that is) I started to get interested in being able to watch Region 1 DVDs ...  Read the complete review

A few months ago i was looking for a good DVD-ROM drive for my computer, but due to a hardware shortage in the UK, most drives were sold out - or the only ones available were not multi-region. I managed to find the DVD Encore package which also included the Dxr3 DVD decoder... i am very happy with my purchase! I discovered that i needed the Dxr3 card in my computer anyway with my specification, a P300 overclocked to 338 Mhz. When playing DVDs using a software decoder, the picture quality is poor and it tends to miss a lot of frames. Creative's DVD Player is great, definately a lot better than the normal software bundled with Hollywood+ ...  Read the complete review

Right from the start, I will say that I am not particularly up on computers so don't laugh too much about my problems please. I arrived home from PC World with my lovely new DVD player, opened up my computer, installed the unit and decoder card, installed the software, rebooted the computer, and nothing. I sat down with the manual to see where I had gone wrong but seeing as the program used an auto set-up method, I couldn't do much. After checking everything out, there was a conflict with the Creative SB16 which I had to laugh at because you expect products from the same company to co-exist quite peacefully. No matter what settings I ...  Read the complete review