Creative® PC-DVD Encore 6X with Dxr3 brings the future of digital home entertainment to your PC and your home. Witness vibrant digital imagery of DVD video, immerse yourself in cinema-like Dolby® Digital (AC-3®) surround audio, and harness the massive data storage that's only found in PC-DVD technology.

The next-generation Creative Dxr3 decoder board delivers impeccable image quality and provides better processing of color video at high resolutions. In addition to stunning video, the Dxr3 board takes Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio and feeds it to a receiver or DeskTop Theater 5.1 for theater-like, room-shaking audio with a 6-speaker surround system. Or you can connect Dxr3 to your Sound Blaster® audio card for great stereo sound.

The versatile Creative PC-DVD 6X drive reads DVDs at up to 6x speeds, giving you near-instant access to your data. Support for popular disk types such as DVD-R, CD-R, CD-RW, and CD audio provide seamless access to your existing data and audio library.

For a theater-style movie experience on your PC or TV, supreme DVD video and audio, plus access to massive data, PC-DVD Encore 6X with Dxr3 is the ticket.

Dolby Digital (AC-3) 5.1 channel audio requires Cambridge SoundWorks® DeskTop Theater 5.1 speaker system or an amplifier/receiver with Dolby Digital coaxial input, and Dolby Digital (AC-3) supported applications.

Product Specifications

Creative® Dxr3 Decoder Board:
DynamicXtended Resolution (Dxr3) picture-enhancement technology for playback of high-definition video with smoother full-screen video images

6-tap filtering and scaling techniques virtually eliminates combing effects and artifacts

Onboard connectors for audio output to sound card and audio input from PC-DVD drive

Back panel connectors for AC-3® coaxial S/PDIF out, Dolby® surround Line Out, VGA output, VGA input, and S-Video output

Output MPEG and DVD 1.0 video at up to 30 fps (NTSC) or 24 fps (PAL)

Playback Dolby Digital (AC-3) 5.1 channel audio; stereo audio (downmixed from 5.1 channel, Dolby Digital audio), linear PCM audio, and MPEG audio (Video CD)

TV output includes support for:

- NTSC at 640x400 and 600x400 at 60Hz
- PAL at 640x480 and 800x600 at 50Hz
- Composite and S-video signals
Supports resolution setting of up to 1600 x 1200 at 32-bit color and 85Hz refresh rate
Video overlay implementation