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Creative Labs DVD/Dolby Decoder Enables PC User to Experience Cinema-Quality Video and Audio

The Creative Dxr3 Decoder board features DynamicXtended Resolution(TM) (Dxr3) picture enhancement technology for playback of high-definition video with smoother full-screen video images on the PC. The decoder board provides a room-thundering, cinema-quality Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio experience by connecting to the Cambridge SoundWorks DeskTop Theater 5.1 speaker system or to an amplifier/receiver for an immersive six channels of full surround sound effects. Creative Dxr3 Decoder board works on a Pentium® 166 MHz PC and provides greater clarity over other MPEG-2 decoders. In addition, the Dxr3 hardware based decoder is more efficient than software-based DVD decoders.

``Creative is proud to offer Micron the latest in PC-DVD Dxr3 technology from its award-winning line of PC-DVD Encore solutions,'' said John Troutman, vice president & general manager of Creative Labs, Malvern. ``The Creative Dxr3 Decoder card will offer Millennia home office PC users an opportunity to experience sharper cinema quality DVD video.''

``We are excited to be offering Creative Lab's next-generation of PC-DVD technology,'' said Jeff Moeser, vice president of product development for Micronpc.com. ``Micron strives to deliver innovative video and audio solutions to its customers for the ultimate in technology and performance.''

    Additional Features and Benefits
    -- Dynamic De-Interlacing -- 6-tap filtering and scaling techniques
       virtually eliminate "combing" effects or artifacts that may appear
       around fast-moving objects to provide sharp, crisp, clean video images
    -- Advanced Video Color Processing -- Processor fully utilizes the
       on-board 24-bit DAC for sharper images and crystal clear displays
    -- Graphics Adapter Technology -- Dxr3 keeps up with fast-paced graphics
       adapter technology by supporting Windows resolutions of up to
       1600x1200 at 85Hz.  Dxr3 works with the graphics adapter to eliminate
       the need to adjust the PC monitor's resolution when watching movies on
       the PC
    -- DVD Player for your TV -- Plug in PC-DVD Dxr3 decoder board to the TV
       with S-Video or Composite connections and watch movies from the
       comfort of the living room

About Micronpc.com

Micron Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MUEI - news) is a leading, direct manufacturer of personal computers, business Internet offerings and business-to-business e-commerce services for the commercial, government and education markets. Under the micronpc.com, HostPro, Micron Internet Services and SpecTek brands, the company offers a wide range of innovative product, services and support. It provides award-winning computer products, such as personal computers, servers, notebooks; SpecTek semiconductor memory products; and a range of data communications services, such as Web hosting, connectivity and e-commerce services. Micron Electronics has more than 2,700 employees and $1.7 billion in revenues. The company can be reached at www.micronpc.com.

About Creative's OEM Business Division

Creative's OEM Business Division is dedicated to providing customized service and support for OEMs. The OEM Business Division is focused on designing solutions that target the PC, portable and imbedded solutions markets. Creative recognizes that OEMs increasingly rely on brand name solutions in order to differentiate in today's highly competitive PC market. Creative is able to offer OEMs its strong brand name and industry standard solutions that have come to be associated with the high-quality and reliability that consumers demand. Creative's OEM Business Division utilizes resources and advanced technology in audio, speakers, graphics, communications and PC-DVD from its wholly-owned subsidiaries -- Emu Systems, EcTiva, Cambridge SoundWorks, Digicom Systems and Silicon Engineering, Inc. -- to produce a broad range of cost-effective solutions that provide OEMs with a competitive advantage.

About Creative

Creative Technology Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets a wide array of advanced multimedia solutions for the PC, entertainment, education, music and productivity tools markets. Creative's products are marketed through both the OEM and retail channels under a variety of trademarks, including the ``Blaster'' family name. Sound Blaster® has become the multimedia industry's de facto audio standard. Sound Blaster is an audio platform consisting of a sound card or chipset, software drivers and bundled software applications that enable PCs to produce high quality audio. Creative's corporate headquarters and primary manufacturing are based in Singapore, with sales, distribution and research and development being carried out through an extensive, global network of subsidiaries located in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

For more information on Creative's entire line of entertainment solutions for the PC, please visit our web site at www.creative.com.

Sound Blaster and Blaster are registered trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized as such.

SOURCE: Creative Technology Ltd.