360 HD DVD Player

Tobes said:
I think you have to use custom drivers.

Apart from that the reason is it's a dead format. Some people feel that means it's not worth the £30.

I would love one but have no where selling them near me. Would have to buy online.
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The drives are effectively free. They have been for a while actually. Used to be £100 for a drive with 5 free films, back when they were £20 a film, and now its £25 with 2 free films. yeah the films are cheaper, but 2 normal DVDs of some of the decent titles will still set you back a tenner each....

Actually scrap that. BluRay drives have droped like stones, id just get one of these to replace my DVD drive if it broke

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...ay Reader & HD-DVD ROM Serial ATA Drive - OEM

£70 is stupid cheap!
 
I picked one up a month or so back from no doubt where everyone got theres from, got 19 films(includes matrix trilogy) , planet earth, heroes series 1, great quality as you would expect, mine may have to go though for financial reasons.
 
just got 3 more films for £12 batman begins,constantine and fast and furious tokyo drift why couldnt they be this price at the start :(
 
They are not bad so long as you realise you are buying a dead format. The 360 is also not great as a media centre compared to the PS3 or a HTPC.
 
dbmzk1 said:
The 360 is also not great as a media centre compared to the PS3 or a HTPC.
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What a stupid comment in a Xbox360 HD Drive thread :confused:
The only format I've got that the 360 wont play is .mkv so not really an issue (reencode it on a PC and stream across).
& comparing a consoles media capabilities with a PC(HTPC) is just stoopid.
I have Blu-Rays encoded as HD WMV, over 8Gb in size, try playing that on a PS3 :p

Anyway, back on topic.
I got a HD Drive a couple of months ago, and think it's great along with cheap films (less than £5) you can't go wrong.
The only disks I'm missing now is The Matrix Trilogy, if anyone see's it cheap please email me ;)
 
I never understand why the chaps with ps3's and bluerays need to comment on hd's and they dead format etc, we know they are but for pure bargain prices you can't complain at the price, £3.99 i seen them for on the net you can build a great collection of high def films for next to nothing.
 
RichieM said:
What a stupid comment in a Xbox360 HD Drive thread :confused:
The only format I've got that the 360 wont play is .mkv so not really an issue (reencode it on a PC and stream across).
& comparing a consoles media capabilities with a PC(HTPC) is just stoopid.
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I don't get what is stupid about it. The OP was asking if it was worth it. I said that yes it is, so long as he is aware that it's a dead format and that better alternatives do exist.

RichieM said:
I have Blu-Rays encoded as HD WMV, over 8Gb in size, try playing that on a PS3 :p
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Actually you will find it would play perfectly on the PS3. Try playing one from the 360's hard drive... oh wait ;) Try getting a to 360 play the contents of a .MKV file with 5.1 surround. :p



For the record I have a HD-DVD drive and own more HD-DVDs than I do Blu-rays. :) Granted I don't actually own any Blu-rays and the HD-DVDs came free, but still! :p I rent my HD movies right now.
 
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competitor names flying round like boomerangs in this thread

i must admit - i agree with wedgie
hd format is something where if you watch a few films at highrer res you just get used to it

unfortunatly for me i was playing my dvds through an upscaler so the leap to a hd format wasnt that impressive bar the sound quality being vastly improved
 
Don't wanna get into a flame-war dude, I just didn't see point of the comment :(

I was told the PS3 had a file-size limit and was under the impression it was 4Gb :confused:

Apologise for my grumpy Monday morning posting :p
 
Tobes said:
I think you have to use custom drivers.
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Nope. Plug and play under XP and Vista - drivers are on Windows update. You'll need a decoder app eg PowerDVD7 and a reasonably powerful dual core PC unless it's got a hardware acceleration.

My E6750, ATI 4850 combo ticks over at about 7% while playing an HD-DVD as the ATI card takes most of the load.
 
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