Xbox 360 HD DVD player works in Windows!

[arisythila]

199 dollars for a HD DVD player is pretty damn good price! Im pretty impressed it works in Windows.

~Mike

[Lestat]

yeah this is known,
i havent gotten one myself, but it was known when it was released it would work in windows, just gotta get the drivers.

i cherish not having to replace hundreds of DVD's to HD DVD's just to watch it in a new clarity. heck i dont even want to have to go thru and replace one.


one thing you have to also think about is that anything thats prior to the last year or two is simply an upscaled video burnt to DVD as it was never originally recorded in HD.

newer movies are or atleast some of them.

and MS is really pushing hard for the whole "Live" thing which includes the 360 and Vista and a whole slew of crossovers. 360 stuff on the pc pc stuff on the 360.. etc etc..

the 360 Live Vision Camera works in windows also,, you cant really use it as a standard web cam but you can take single pictures with it.
same for the controllers, i use my 360 controller in windows all the time for games.

[Lestat]

oops forgot to mention...

what are you using to play HD movies ? Power DVD HD ?
hows it look with your 8800 ?

[Kobalt]

Do you really notice a difference on a 20" LCD? The only application of this I can think of is for HTPC.

[[XC] leviathan18]

i wating for hybrids units hd/br for pc so i can build an htpc but this is good to know

[OmegaMerc]

i wating for hybrids units hd/br for pc so i can build an htpc but this is good to know

You can pry open the xbox 360 HD DVD if you really want to and just stick it in the case. I got mines when it was just out, for w/e reason CC had it for 150$ Works great on the plasma and on my LCD, Microsoft has actual drivers for it now too. I purchased WinDVD8 with the Bluray/HD-DVD addon from japan to get it to work though.

[arisythila]

oops forgot to mention...

what are you using to play HD movies ? Power DVD HD ?
hows it look with your 8800 ?

Well I was playing around on my TV downstairs. so 50 inch Samsung 1080p DLP TV S5088W

I used WinDVD 8

~Mike

[arisythila]

i wating for hybrids units hd/br for pc so i can build an htpc but this is good to know


I figured since :banana::banana::banana::banana: industry picked up VHS, and is now adopting HD DVD. HD DVD is probably going to win. Plus, I got 5 free movies for buying the HD DVD player :-)

But yeah, I defiantly want a HD/BR drive for my HTPC but Very unwilling to pay 1100 dollars for it.

~Mike

[p8ntslinger676]

anyone know of any good upconvert programs, currently im using ffdshow with dscaler5 but it doesnt seem to do as well as i hoped for :(

[lowfat]

the people who are using the HD-DVD player on your PC are you using an HDCP videocard and monitor?