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Old 30-03-2008, 09:18 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Re: This is why I dont buy Creative

But thats just ubnlocking more performance, not aditional features.

I don't know the details of what these new drivers did, but it is likely features like DTS decoding and other audio processing features are enabled. These are features that probably haven't had the licensing payed for that particular product.

Say Creative ship 10,000 high end cards and 50,000 budget cards. They willo only pay for 10,000 licenses for the software on the high end cards even though the low end ones are technically capable of doing the same job.

It's quite similar to the video driver issues with the HTC TyTN II.
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