360 HD-DVD on PC? You bet
by Richard Mitchell 
{ Nov 13th 2006 at 11:30AM }
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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SuicideNinja @ Nov 13th 2006 12:20PM
Can't do that with the PS3, now can ya?
DannyOB@360insight @ Nov 13th 2006 12:24PM
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.
delerious @ Nov 13th 2006 12:00PM
Interesting, the OSX recognizes the HD DVD memory unit, but XP won't. Vista won't read the memory unit either.
h0ss66 @ Nov 13th 2006 12:10PM
thats why macs rule; but when will hd-dvd software be out for it? and a mactheripper version?
delerious @ Nov 13th 2006 12:47PM
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.
edhe @ Nov 14th 2006 4:25AM
#4 the drive just reads the data into the host. It's up to the host (pc/360) to do the hard work.
DannyOB@360insight @ Nov 14th 2006 6:41PM
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?
ipod-video-converter @ Nov 29th 2006 3:25AM
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.
gazuk @ Dec 3rd 2006 9:03PM
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.