Creative Labs PC-DVD ROM kit

Pros: Cheap, Good Quality DVD player
Cons: long cables needed to hook the DXR3 to your tv and DD reciever

Since I was so anxious to jump onto the band wagon of the DVD craze I had to be the first one in my apartment to own a DVD player. Since my options were based primarily on money, I opted for the DXR3 decoder card and a 6X Creative labs DVD player. I...

Pros: nice box
Cons: no free tech support, long delay in e-mail, not Nt compatible out of the box (good luck getting it to work)

The Creative Dxr3 Dvd is a hunk of trash. After purchasing one to install in a friends computer, I will never buy another Creative product.

The first thing you need to know is that you will need both the Creative dvd drive and Creative Dxr3...

Pros: Good picture, lot's of features
Cons: NO REMOTE CONTROL!!!!!

With all the talk of convergence between PC and Home Entertainment Systems, I bought a PC-DVD Encore kit from Creative Labs. As someone who bought an Encore kit with the intention of using it for movies displayed via S-Video connections, I have to admit...

Pros: I'll be selling it to someone else soon.
Cons: Non-satisfactory performance from company and product.

This is not only a review on the DVD player at hand, but on the larger scale of the Creative Labs company as a whole. I like to look at the bigger picture when possible.

At the time I was building my computer, I decided that I wanted to get...

Pros: Complete package
Cons: No DVD movie included ;(

The Creative package that's offered is one of the better ones on the market. It is especially nice for those people who are buying the video cards that don't have Hardware DVD support (like my nVidia board). The package comes with everything you need...

Pros: 4
Cons: 0

I bought a DVD player basically for a toy because I had a 17" Monitor and thought movies would look cool on it. So I chose the cheapest one I could find knowing perfectly well that it would probably cause me all kinds of problems. I was pleasantly...

Pros: Reliable, good value, works quickly and well, great support web site
Cons: Not the cheapest drive

If you are looking for a DVD/Cd-rom combo, look no further. The Creative Labs 6X DVD drive is fast, powerful, easy to use and bug-free. I've been using this drive for about six months, to play video games, audio cds and DVDs, and it has worked quickly...

Pros: Brand name, picture and sound quality
Cons: None that I can think of

I'm not a computer geek but I did buy the DXR-2 DVD-ROM drive (with the decoder card) to install in a computer that I owned. I followed all directions (and used a bit of common sense) and everything worked out fine. I must mention that I use Win98 on...

Pros: nice package; good quality
Cons: no toll-free support line;

I bought this for a Celeron-400 I was building. Not a powerhouse computer, but nothing to laugh about, either. With Creative Labs, you buy a great product from a great retailer. And, perhaps most importantly, it doesn't cost an arm and a leg...

Pros: Works great
Cons: Need to download latest divers

This DVD drive system works very well with Windows NT 4.0 workstation. I only had one problem. Seemingly randomly, my system would Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) when I booted up. Eventually I discovered that it happened only when I had a program CD-ROM...

Pros: Great all around; good picture, nice features
Cons: The newest driver update conflicts with your video card

The Pc-Dvd Encore 6x with the Dxr3 decoder card is an overall great buy. It's loaded with features, including an AC-3 out on the Dxr3 board for Dolby Digital Audio(the same sound mixing used in movie theaters), Dolby Pro Logic out(for surround sound...

Pros: Speed, Graphics, Decoder Card, Software, Unbelievable sound
Cons: Difficulty with driver

This product is truly unbelievable when it comes to value and performance. First off this dvd player comes with a decoder card which means that your system doesn't need to waste valuable resources on running the dvd's. Second plus I can think of is it's...

Pros: Easy installation, good DVD software
Cons: Quality of the drive is suspect. CD-ROM access is pretty slow.

I purchased the Creative 12x PC-DVD drive to replace an old 32x CD-ROM drive I was donating to my father. If I didn't enjoy watching DVD's, I probably would have been better off keeping my old drive.

Installation of the drive is simple if you...

Pros: Easy installation, decent price
Cons: seems to have still some bugs which may or may not be in the 3rd party software

It was time to upgrade to a PIII/500 and from CD-R to DVD. So I took the bold step and put down the USD 500+ for a Creative DVD-RAM. Its been sitting in my Win98 SE machine now for 2 weeks but it won't work (yet). Why is that:

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Pros: None
Cons: No Tech Support

I own a Gateway Destination System and wanted to convert my computer to be able to watch DVD movies on the big screen monitor. However upon installing the dvd drive into my computer, every time I started the computer, I received an error message. After...