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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. DVD-HD or Blu-ray by thejrwr · · Score: 0, Troll

    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

  2. Re:199$ is cheap? by ookabooka · · Score: 0, Troll

    "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."

    Yeah, because blockbuster is definately gonna be renting out SATA drives soon. . .The reason why it is worth it is because the media will be worth pennies (if that). Say you wanted to store x gigaquads of data (I love the word gigaquads, yes I know it's meaningless). Would you buy zillions of SATA hard drives or 1 hd-dvd burner drive, and zillions of discs. They are apples and oranges, you cant really compare them like that.

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