360 HD-DVD player works on PC!

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#1 ObjectiveTruth
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This may be old news but HOLY SH#*&

I just bought my HD-DVD player and I was looking up if its possible and yes it is!

It comes compatible out of the box. Just plug it into your PC and aslong as you have vista or a really up to date windows XP it will install the drivers for it. The only catch is that you need a program to view the HDDVDs. I downloaded Cyberlink PowerDVD 7 with HD support and VOILA! it works!

OMG, This officially means that the only way to see High Definition movies on your home computer is through HDDVD NOT bluray.

I think this is huge! MS should advertise this. Could really swing the tide in Toshiba's Favour!

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#2 nickdastick
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This may be old news but HOLY SH#*&

I just bought my HD-DVD player and I was looking up if its possible and yes it is!

It comes compatible out of the box. Just plug it into your PC and aslong as you have vista or a really up to date windows XP it will install the drivers for it. The only catch is that you need a program to view the HDDVDs. I downloaded Cyberlink PowerDVD 7 with HD support and VOILA! it works!

OMG, This officially means that the only way to see High Definition movies on your home computer is through HDDVD NOT bluray.

I think this is huge! MS should advertise this. Could really swing the tide in Toshiba's Favour!

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What do you mean the only way to watch Hi-Def movies on a computer is through HDDVD and not Bluray? Computers come with BluRay drives man... So I'm just wondering what you meant when you said that.

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#3 teebeenz
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The vast majority of HD Optical drives in PCs are BD drives, and they're pretty cheap for what they provide.
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#4 ObjectiveTruth
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Oh, I didn't realize.

Then I haven't seen any.

But still that's pretty sweet that it works on a pc.

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#5 Taijiquan
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Oh, I didn't realize.

Then I haven't seen any.

But still that's pretty sweet that it works on a pc.

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Welcome to last year.

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#6 gamegod
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while my 360 was in limbo i hooked mine up to my pc.i wish windows would release some software capable of play hd dvds though.

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#7 teebeenz
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Both Dell and Apple will be making the big BD push late next year from what I recall once the new drives are out.