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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. 199$ is cheap? by Kenja · · Score: 2, Informative

    Given that there are a number of IDE & SATA drives hitting the market for under 150$ I guess I just dont see what the big deal is.

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    1. Re:199$ is cheap? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      ... what?

      You, um, do realize that SATA and IDE aren't synonymous with "hard drive" right? The poster is referring to SATA and IDE HD-DVD drives. And I've never heard of _anyone_ renting a disk drive at Blockbuster, so I guess I'm not sure what the hell you're even talking about.

      If we're talking about apples and oranges, you're talking about friggin' carrots or something...

  2. Application available to public by Skaber · · Score: 5, Informative

    Xboxhacker forums has links that points directly to the files. http://localhostr.com/files/c46c39057dc3fbe73d9f.r ar Xboxhacker points out that there is currently no available PC player for hddvd, so all you get is access to the dvd content.

    1. Re:Application available to public by CerebusUS · · Score: 3, Informative

      Xboxhacker points out that there is currently no available PC player for hddvd

      This is the part everyone is missing. Allowing the USB HD-DVD drive to work on your PC buys you absolutely nothing at the moment. The importnat parts are all done in software on the 360.

    2. Re:Application available to public by masteroffm · · Score: 2, Informative

      actually with the nvidia purevideo codec and the right drivers playback for blu-ray and hd-dvd is currently available http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo_hd.html

    3. Re:Application available to public by Rakishi · · Score: 4, Informative

      Uh, RTFA? WinDVD 8 seems to play HD-DVDs just fine.

  3. Re:it's all in the pricing by Kenja · · Score: 5, Informative

    "I've never even seen an actual computer monitor (not LCD TV/monitor) that can display in full HD"

    You've never seen a computer able to display 1920x1080?

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  4. Re:it's all in the pricing by The+Warlock · · Score: 2, Informative

    Lots of computer monitors can display 720p, and some of the more high-end ones can display 1080p. After all, 720p is just 1280x720 resolution. Computers have been doing better than that for quite some time (although it's a big step above the 640x480 that a standard def TV does).

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  5. Not really news by skyman8081 · · Score: 3, Informative

    There was a post on AVS Forum by a member who works at MS not too long ago about using the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive on a PC. His reply that It isn't supported only in the sense that MS didn't test it for the PC, but there was nothing specifically being done to prevent it being used on a PC. So I'm really not surprised that it is being done this quickly to be perfectly honest.

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  6. XP, why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    I'm surprised that this wasn't done on a linux box. It'd be : a) cheaper, and b) cooler. Now M$ will just throw a sock in the works to fuck it up, somehow.

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  7. Re:DVD-HD or Blu-ray by jonnythan · · Score: 4, Informative

    HD DVD discs are outselling Blu-Ray discs by a large margin, at least at Amazon.

    http://www.thedvdwars.com/index.cfm

  8. Re:it's all in the pricing by jonnythan · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are a lot of monitors that are HDCP compatible.

    I have one.

    The other trick is more having a graphics card that is HDCP compatible. Those are hard to come by, but most of the newer ones are.

  9. No doubt MSFT will "patch" against it by lawaetf1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Since I'm sure the EULA prohibits one from tampering with the hardware of the X360, I'm sure M$ will patch XP to disable any such hack. Get it to work on Linux though... /didn't RTFA, can't.

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  10. Re:/.'d before /.'ing? by monkeySauce · · Score: 3, Informative

    cache link for the lazy and ununiformed:

    http://uneasysilence.com.nyud.net:8090/archive/200 6/11/8303/

  11. Re:it's all in the pricing by Lord+Apathy · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not sure it's even good for that. The content is encrypted differently than what is on a standard DVD so the current flock of rippers won't be able to rip them. I'm not even sure that there are some HD rippers in the works or what there status is.

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  12. Re:DVD-HD or Blu-ray by popeye9000 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, HD DVD outsells Blu-Ray about 11 to 1, according the Amazon.com stats. Toshiba reports that brick and mortar stores favor HD DVD over Blu-Ray by at least 3 to 1.