If you read what I wrote (which you didn't obviously) I said "& for what its worth there are MANY who prefer the image quality of software decoders".
Did "I" say "I" preferred software DVD decoders image there at all?
No.
Perhaps *you* need to get your eyes retested again as nowhere did I state *I* preferred software decoders, in fact the only thing I prefer about software decoders are the far better audio options. I'm still bugged the Xcard can't send an AC-3/DTS stream to your soundcard, this would be of great use with the Live! 5.1 & Audigy soundcards as they have software AC-3 decoding in their drivers & thus could do up to 6 channel analog output - but thats not occured to you.

As for the comment about 200Mhz CPU, try to move into the real world. Hardly anyone uses or still has a CPU that slow now & certainly none of those systems came with a DVD drive. Most visitors of this site have a system that would be well capable of software MPEG/DivX playback I'd be willing to bet. Mentioning nothing on software decoders as such is just silly.