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Jason Eaton
11-14-2006, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/11/8303/' target='_blank'>http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/11/8303/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Double Double toil and trouble, well more accurately it’s Torx 5 Torx 7 toil and lots trouble. Enticed by the $199 price, we set ourselves on a mission to find out if the Microsoft’s XBox 360 HD-DVD player could work on a normal PC. Now, this can’t be an easy task, can it? Knowing there was already software available for Windows XP to play HD-DVD’s, could simply plugging the HD-DVD drive into a PC work? Well, no Windows needs drivers. If Windows wants drivers, drivers it will get. After installing these drivers magic started to happen. The HD-DVD drive was now recognized in Windows XP."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/xbox360_hd_dvd.jpg" /><br /><br />In the market for a HD-DVD player for your PC or Mac but don’t want to wait? What if someone told you that you could have one today and at a reasonable price with only a few minor hurdles? Head on over to UNEASYsilence as they have the scoop on making an Xbox 360 HD-DVD usable on your computer. The only catch is you also have to supply the software for HD-DVD playback.

Jason Dunn
11-14-2006, 08:15 PM
Man, this thing gets better and better! I defnitely need to pick one of these up...

Felix Torres
11-15-2006, 01:01 AM
Man, this thing gets better and better! I defnitely need to pick one of these up...

I was planning to...
...until I saw just how well the 360 upscales DVDs at 1080p over VGA...
Now I'm in no rush; I can afford to wait out the blue laser wars... 8)