One of our colleagues here at Weblogs sent us this link about using the 360 HD-DVD player as a cheap HD-DVD drive for PC. It looks like all you need is the right set of drivers and a playback program and voila! Instant, cheap HD-DVD goodness. The boys who discovered this solution -- UNEASYsilence -- were not satisfied with such an easy outcome, so they took the damned thing apart anyway. Check out the article if you'd like to see the Toshiba-powered guts of the HD-DVD player. Also worth noting, a Mac recognized the drive immediately, no drivers needed. Unfortunately, as there is no HD-DVD program available for the Mac, it will only play DVDs.
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11-13-2006 @ 12:00PM
delerious said...
Interesting, the OSX recognizes the HD DVD memory unit, but XP won't. Vista won't read the memory unit either.
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11-13-2006 @ 12:10PM
h0ss66 said...
thats why macs rule; but when will hd-dvd software be out for it? and a mactheripper version?
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11-13-2006 @ 12:20PM
SuicideNinja said...
Can't do that with the PS3, now can ya?
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11-13-2006 @ 12:24PM
DannyOB@360insight said...
Wasn't it said that the HDDVD player was the only App. to use 100% of the hardware? If so, how could a PC run this?? To play HDDVD's that is.
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11-13-2006 @ 12:47PM
delerious said...
You can still run HD DVDs, but you won't be able to access the memory unit. The Toshiba HD DVD drive has plug'n play drivers. You just need WinDVD 8 or a program of the sort that supports it, and you may need a HDCP compliant setup.
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11-14-2006 @ 4:25AM
edhe said...
#4 the drive just reads the data into the host. It's up to the host (pc/360) to do the hard work.
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11-14-2006 @ 6:41PM
DannyOB@360insight said...
That doesn't answer my point, PC's don't come anywhere near the spec of the 360, so how could they play HD-DVD's using the HD-DVD attachment if it uses 100% of the 360's processing to play it?
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11-29-2006 @ 3:25AM
ipod-video-converter said...
You can still run HD DVDs, but you won't be able to access the memory unit. The Toshiba HD DVD drive has plug'n play drivers. You just need WinDVD 8 or a program of the sort that supports it, and you may need a HDCP compliant setup.
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12-03-2006 @ 9:03PM
gazuk said...
Good idea to play hd movies in the pc but still I want to know the quality for playing the movies in the pc. Is it widescreen and 720P? Do I need a widescreen monitor to enjoy it best quality? Is it better than a regular dvd in the pc? is it software accelerated or hardware accelerate in Nvidia or Ati cards. Hope to hear anyone who has it running.
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