With Creative PC-DVD Encore Dxr2, you get technologies and experiences totally unprecedented on your PC today, such asvibrant digital imagery of MPEG-2 video that’s uniquelyenhanced 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.

Features

• DVD Player for your TV
  The Dxr2 board comes with high-quality, S-video and composite outputs for connecting to your PC.
• DVD Player for your PC
  A high-definition, resolution-enhanced DVD player on your PC monitor in a fully-resizeable window.
• Blazing 20x Speed CD-ROM Drive
  Access time of 100 ms and compatibility with all CD formats including CD-Recordable.
• 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.
• 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.
• Dxr2, State-of-the-Art Picture Enhancement
• 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.

Dxr2:

In a class with expensive “line doublers,” our DynamicXtended Resolution (Dxr2) video enhancer performs as well, if not better, than other profesional line doubling systems costing thousands of dollars. Dxr2 takes DVD signals that are already high-quality and enhances them to cinema-like quality on your PC. You’ll find it hard to believe that video can be so sharp on your PC today. It beats the best laser disc or consumer DVD player hands down.

The reason? Because Creative’s DynamicXtended Resolution technology (Dxr2) incorporates unique resolution-quadrupling, scaling, and filtering technologies to provide clean, smooth, and high-definition motion video for your PC.

The advantages of DynamicXtended Resolution technology:

• Flicker-Free Picture
  Dxr2 eliminates the flicker and blurry horizontal lines of regular TV pictures caused by the 30 frames-per-secondinterlaced TV signal. By intelligently combining two adjacent interlaced fields into one and in the process, doubling the resolution and frame rate, Dxr2 gives you a full 60 frames-per-second, smooth, and flicker-free picture.
• No More Combing Effects
  “Combing effects” are annoying artifacts that become most obvious around objects moving quickly across the screen in some conventional ”line-doubled” video. Combing adds obscure horizontal effects to these objects that are moving quickly across the screen. Dxr2 intelligently detects and cuts out these jagged lines before they can distort the picture. It’s when the picture contains fast motion that Dxr2 demonstrates its true mettle - delivering a super-clean picture completely free of jagged or “combed” lines.
• Dynamically Zoom in any direction up to 1280x1024!
  Many conventional zooming techniques use line replication which introduces unevenness and “jaggies”. It is especially annoying when you zoom to disproportionate sizes. When Dxr2 zooms in on a picture, it totally recomputes every pixel in the whole picture, and then performs a unique filtering to smoothen and sharpen the image at the new resolution. You can widen or narrow the screen to any size up to 1280x1024 in a window on your PC without the jagged edges or uneven artifacts of zooming.

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