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Hacking XBox 360 HD-DVD To Play On XP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cheap-HD dept.

Dan writes, "The XBox 360's affordable HD-DVD, with the help of some custom drivers and a specific player, has been hacked to work with any Windows XP machine. This may have created the cheapest HD-DVD player on the market to date."

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  1. /.'d before /.'ing? by RingDev · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, the link is dead before the article is even up.

    -Rick

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  2. Re:DVD-HD or Blu-ray by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Funny
    Tho, To me ive seen more Blu-ray discs being sold then DVD-HD discs, tho i only watch the discovery channel now of days

    Man, you sound like the anti-Baysian stuff I see at the bottom of spam nowadays.

    (laugh, it's a joke ;-)

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  3. uneazysilence.com was winner... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...most prophetic slashdotted domain name of 2006.

  4. Re:DVD-HD or Blu-ray by thejrwr · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm only 10 years old, my grammer is not the best yet,

  5. Re:DVD-HD or Blu-ray by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm only 10 years old...

    Which means you obviously get out a lot to stores that'd have BluRay and HD-DVD titles. Y'know, some places put them way up on the third or fourth shelf, so you may not have been able to see them...

  6. Re:DVD-HD or Blu-ray by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The price of a player has to sting though, they should have called it "sting ray" and then I would have bought one just out of respect for ridding us of that irritating Irwin fella.

  7. Re:Application available to public by Red+Flayer · · Score: 2, Funny

    No driver, got it... thanks.

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