Tag: HD DVD
The website Uneasysilence has decided to look closer to the HD-DVD player sold as an extension option to the Xbox360:
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. Now we needed a piece of software to actually play the HD-DVD. And after some hard work we managed to...
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In this post, http://blogs.msdn.com/x...e-day.aspx , by Shaheen Gandhi, an engineer on the Xbox 360 Platform Team, a massive amount of code went into the HD DVD playback system for the Xbox 360.
As a result of the complexities of decoding HD DVD audio and video content, as well as providing a user interface and DRM, over 4.7 million lines of code went into the HD DVD software.
HD DVD can be considered a runtime environment where audio/video playback is just one major feature. So let's break down that 4.7...
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Valmort 1 year 11 months ago
The new Xbox 360 commercial for HD-DVD.
The Xbox 360 HD-DVD player will sell for $199.99 in North America starting in "mid-November."
The HD-DVD player add-on will include a copy of King Kong in HD DVD for a limited time and a 360 Universal Media Remote. It will sell for €199.99/£129.99 in the UK, France and Germany.
"The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player is the best high-definition movie experience and value on the market," Peter Moore said. "The reviews, the word of mouth and the consumer response have all been crystal clear -- HD DVD is the format of choice. We're not forcing movie...
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Valmort 1 year 12 months ago
Sources in Taiwan's optical disc drive (ODD) industry point that Microsoft is working on a new generation of Xbox 360's which will be equipped with an internal HD-DVD drive and is selecting manufacturers in Taiwan to build the drive. Microsoft will offer an external HD-DVD drive for its Xbox 360 at around the end of this year, in an attempt to compete with the PS3, which will have a built-in Blu-ray Disc (BD) drive. However the external HD-DVD drive can only playback movies.
If the process of selecting partner makers and subsequent...
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1. A holiday HD-DVD Xbox360 add-on that will be very inexpensive (around the $200 mark) and is rumored to only require component inputs. No HDMI in sight. This would of course point the finger to no HDCP being used on initial HD-DVD movie disks as expected.
2. For you folks that are buying the new 1080P panels that are now on the market, have no fear, as the Xbox360 looks to already support 1080P resolutions. All that will need to be changed is the connecting cable. Little more information is known on this or if there will be a gaming...
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Microsoft is scheduled to demonstrate the first Xbox 360 featuring an HD DVD drive on Monday afternoon at the DVD Forum in Los Angeles, according to event organizers.
HD DVD is the next generation of DVD, and Microsoft is among those supporting the technology in its struggle against the rival Blu-ray format. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in January that Microsoft would roll out an HD DVD-equipped Xbox before the end of the year.
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