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victorxian
- Sep 4, 2004
3DLabs Creative Decoder DDTS-100Strengths: DTS and Dolby Digital decoder. Weakness: Not stable enough to stand vertically I bought it to work with creative T5400. I can enjoy DTS and Dolby Digital DVD now. I love the switch box design. It save you moeny for another speakers for PC. When playing PC game, just switch to PC connection. It's much better than GD580 which can not handle analog for PC. 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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xphiledan
- Sep 1, 2004
3DLabs Creative Decoder DDTS-100Strengths: Plethora of connectors. Remote control. Great NEO6 upmixing. Weakness: Can be a bit confusing to use. I had difficulty ouputting a digital signal to my PS2. However, I believe it is the PS2'S problem. (i'm going to have to go out and buy a new ps2 now.) so far, i've had no problems with the unit. however, one complaint is that it looks cheap! the pseudo metallic plastic just does not look good. otherwise, it works as advertised. 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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tencheenian
- May 19, 2004
3DLabs Creative Decoder DDTS-100Strengths: Perfect for 6.1 Speakers system, Build in Dolby prologic II and DTS Neo 6, Well designed interface, 2 earphone output ports, 3 toslink input ports. Weakness: No dolby prologic IIx, No LCD screen, Not the best for 7.1 speakers system. I just bought this from ebuyer.com. Overall it is a cheap but high performance decoder. I use it to play playstation, xbox, gamecube, and dreamcast game. If you dont have a DVD player or a game console, this decoder is totally useless for you. I didn't connect my PC audio to this decoder but connect it to my creative s750 gigaworks directly to get better sound~! 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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boi1
- May 15, 2004
3DLabs Creative Decoder DDTS-100Strengths: Features, price Weakness: Wires I must say that if you have a really good speaker system (I have the 5.1 gigaworks), then you should probably invest in this if you want to use them as home theater speakers. It decodes DTS, Pro Logic II, and more. Your DVDs and gaming consoles will appreciate them. There's just a little clutter of wires, so it looks a bit messy. The separate box that switches between PC audio and the decoder does not help with the messiness. Other than that, this combined with your speakers will give you a relatively good home theater sound system for a reasonable price. 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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vorn
- Sep 18, 2005
Works great from PS2, XBOX, COMCAST HDTV, and DVDStrengths: great sound quality and functions perfectly. Weakness: controls take a bit to get used to and the remote is ugly as hell I was looking to build a mini home theather system so I can take time off from the computer. I have a nice set of PC speakers so I wanted to use that for the sound system, and this was exactly what I was looking for. 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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rizalez
- May 23, 2004
3DLabs Creative Decoder DDTS-100Strengths: Small size, many functions, great compatibility, easy navigation, remote control. Weakness: none so far This review is mainly based on my experience: 89% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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Rainking430
- Nov 19, 2005
Decoder gets the Job DoneStrengths: DTS ES and Dolby Digital EX decoding, up to 7.1. Also analog Pro Logic II and DTS Neo:6 decoding. Several settings and plenty of inputs. Can be placed vertically or horizontally. Weakness: Somewhat cheap looking. Maybe too many settings. Lighted display of settings can be confusing compared to an LCD display. Meant only for Creative speakers. I've been using this in conjunction with some of Creative's best multi-channel speakers, and it doesn't disappoint. There are 3 stereo RCA inputs, one coaxial digital input, and three optical inputs. Despite the weaknesses listed above, I am very happy with it connected to my Gigaworks speakers. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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3DLabs Creative Decoder DDTS-100
Strengths: Good Sound - doesn't appear to alter quality of speakers or sound card. Easy Hookup.
Weakness: The PC bypass box is arranged a little strange.
I just got my DDTS, and I am generally very happy with it. It hooked up to all the other electronics very easily, though the PC bypass switch is a little strange, the cord connecting it to the main unit is very short, and I can't figure out how to position it without all of the audio cables hanging off the front of the DDTS box and my dvd player. I tried stashing it behind all the equipment, but then the bypass switch is hard to get to. That is at worst a minor inconvinence, however, and worth dealing with to watch movies on my TV with my kick-butt computer speakers.
One thing to be careful of: Depending on how your system is hooked up, you can get a lot of Hum in the speakers coming from your cable connection, through the TV, dvd player and into the DDTS. Don't freak out. If you hear a lot of humming, disconnect the cable TV from the wall and it should go away. It is not coming from the DDTS. When I disconect my cable, the audio out of the decoder is cyrstal clear. I think more expensive receivers have a built in filter to eliminate this noise and the DDTS does not. Instead, you can get an attenuator from any electronic shop to filter out that noise. If you find you have this problem, google "speaker hum" and "cable" , and you should be able to figure out how to solve this problem.
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