Creative Labs PC-DVD ROM kit

Pros: Brand Recognition, Customer service, Dxr3 decoder board is AMAZING
Cons: The DVD-Rom drive has been known to be buggy and crap out (as mine did)

I got this drive roughly a year and a half ago... and was completely happy with it. the decoder board is amazing, displaying DVDs with incredible resolution and detail. it offers connections galore for a multitude of applications (i used my comp as my...

Pros: Great Drive that can even read some messed up DVD's, inexpensive.
Cons: a little loud.

Introduction

I was on yet another trip to the mall with my wife spending some quality time with her when we got to go to one of my favorite stores... Babbages aka Software Etc. We sifted through their collection of software and I...

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: None so far
Cons: According to tech support, the Dxr3 decoder card will not work with certain monitors

I purchased the retail version of CL's PC-DVD Encore 12X with the Dxr3 decoder card. After installing, my monitor screen was very dim and had a reddish hue to it. It was impossible to see my desktop, much less watch a movie. After spending 90 minutes...

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: Great Player
Cons: Buggy Software

This was my Christmas present to myself this year. Ok well I admit it Christmas or not I was going to buy it, but Christmas was a good excuse.

At $169.99 it was a bit much to ask anyone to buy it for me (even though my girlfriends necklace...

Pros: Cheap DVD
Cons: Cheap DVD

this seemed like a good buy, everything you need for DVD in one box at an affordable price.

i bought the 12x + dxr-3 kit, as i have the sound blaster live sound card which is a good product. this drive lasted all of 2 weeks (i hardly used it)!...

Pros: It's a 12x Creative with hardware decoding!
Cons: Early shipments require installing the Dxr3 driver manually.

This is a delayed addition to my chain of reviews about the computer I built. For those of you that haven't followed my work I built machine for hard work, but also to act as a full entertainment center.

Since I am a movie freak (god bless...

Pros: none from this product brand
Cons: Defective Product, Did Not Honor Warranty, Lousy Customer Service

Relying on Creative Labs reputation with sound cards, how could I go wrong with their pc-dvd? Looking at the other review ratings, I must have bought a lemon from Creative Labs. My pc-dvd did not even last me six months of minimal use.

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Pros: Great Quality!
Cons: Tray is slow to open.

1. What You Get
2. Installation
3. The 12X DVD Rom
4. The Dxr3 Decoder Card
5. System Requirements
6. Pros
7. Cons
8. Over All


*** 1. What You...

Pros: Great drive, decoder is okay
Cons: Decoder not great on monitor, Software not very good

This is a pretty good drive. My brother and I bought this a few years ago when the stand alone DVD players were still over $400. It is a 5x DVD drive that includes Creative's DXR2 MPEG decoder card. I really like this DVD drive. It is a pretty fast...

Pros: Easy to install
Cons: Requires one open IRQ and one open IDE drive on secondary channel

I recently purchased the Creative Labs PC-DVD ROM (2x) with Dxr2 decoder card for a couple of reasons. The first is that as the next level of read-only media for distribution, the DVD looks to be a good alternative for the CD-ROM. I would not be...

Pros: Great picture, easy install, almost everything else.
Cons: Reads gaming CDs slowly.

I hopped on the DVD bandwagon by purchasing the Creative Labs 6X DVD Rom for the PC. So far, it has worked wonderfully. It installed easily; I was finished putting in the computer and installing the drivers in about an hour. The picture on the movies is...

Pros: Good quality, Great price, No problems
Cons: No complaints

I have had a 6x DVD drive and the MPEG decoder card that came with it for over a year now. The only problem I ran into during the entire time that I've had it was a driver problem that I got while installing the card. A quick call to tech support and I...

Pros: Good product
Cons: no help when not working

It looks great, it works great, but when one has a problem with the Creative PCDVD, getting help is nigh Mission Impossible.
DVD tech is not that new, but the number of qualified techs to work on them are not high. And although the price of CD-ROMs...