DVD player and CDR

[zamboe]

I want to buy a burner (CDR) and I saw this combo DVD/CD/CDR all together in one thing, however i really was not looking for a DVD player for my PC, but if this one comes with that sounds better. Please give a few tips that I should consider b4 buying a CDR.

One more thing, my brother's PC has a DVD player separated from his CDRoom and this DVDRoom is atached to a decoder card (I think it decodes the DVDs by hardware) however i know that not all the DVDRooms are decoded with hardware, but directly with software. How much worst is not to use a separate card as a decoder ?

[number6]

In regards to your question about DVD decoder cards. Most newer PC's do not require seperate MPEG2 decoders, because :

a) CPU's are considerablly faster than a few years ago, and

b) Most newer video cards (Radeon, Geforce) have MPEG2 decoding hardware built into them.

There are many reviews online of CD writers. I am partial to plextor and TDK brand names.

[ethan]

depends on how new your comp is...

[zamboe]

So if I understand correctly a DVD decoder card are not longer recomended ?

I have a PIV 2.0 ghz.

[gryphon]

That's depends on your graphics card. But generally I would say a seperate decoder for that purpose is useless in current computers.