Are there HD-DVD drives for the PC out yet?
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Are there HD-DVD drives for the PC out yet?
I was at fry's and saw they were selling recordable HD-DVDs and Blu ray discs, but I couldn't find any burners/players. anyone have any links?
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Do a search for "toshiba laptop hd-dvd". I don't think there are any separate drives available, yet. Other computers are also starting to have HDDVD as an option, but the laptops have been shipping for awhile.
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yea ive seen the toshiba laptop and i think an HP HTPC. So they are selling writeable discs for both formats, but there are no writers available? Has there been any mention of a just an internal drive scheduled for release?
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Originally Posted by Fandango
The Xbox 360 HD-DVD addon works as a player, they have tested it with the new WinDVD that supports HD and BD. You'll need HDCP compatible monitor and video card of course.
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Originally Posted by Fandango
The Xbox 360 HD-DVD addon works as a player, they have tested it with the new WinDVD that supports HD and BD. You'll need HDCP compatible monitor and video card of course.
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Originally Posted by Fincher Fan
Just out of curiousity, how much were the discs going for?
I'm using a computer with a non-hdcp video card and the dell 24inch LCD connected via DVI, so I wouldn't be able to use the 360 as a drive then?
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The new WinDVD is not available yet. You're thinking about Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra. And you don't need an HDCP monitor/card if you're using VGA or Component.
Nope I was thinking about WinDVD.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2074264,00.asp
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Originally Posted by DVDKrayzie
it was something insane like $25 for HD-DVD and i think $40 for Blu ray. There were different brands for blu ray and only 1 for HD-DVD.
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Not really. If you go buy one today, you'll be about the 12th consumer to do so. Early adoption of technology is very expensive. In 3 years they will probably be a couple bucks each. If they catch on for PC users.
Nobody mentioned it yet, but aren't all the HDDVD drives now available just readers? I don't recall seeing a writer that was shipping. So the blank HDDVD is strange to me.
Nobody mentioned it yet, but aren't all the HDDVD drives now available just readers? I don't recall seeing a writer that was shipping. So the blank HDDVD is strange to me.
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There is a thread on AVS that taks about how to get the XBox HD DVD player running on almost any PC with the new PowerDVD ULTRA software... $99 bucks!
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There are some great new drives available from Toshiba, which they showed at CES.
The 903 is a desktop half height drive with read/write of dual layer, plus DVD and CD.
The 902 is a laptop 12.5 mm read/write dual layer drive.
http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Pat...0659c00002f5e/
The 903 is a desktop half height drive with read/write of dual layer, plus DVD and CD.
The 902 is a laptop 12.5 mm read/write dual layer drive.
http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Pat...0659c00002f5e/
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Originally Posted by HiFiLux
There is a thread on AVS that taks about how to get the XBox HD DVD player running on almost any PC with the new PowerDVD ULTRA software... $99 bucks!
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Originally Posted by DVD Josh
This is probably a gray area discussion, but this raises interesting possibilities, like can you take a ripped HD-DVD image and play it on PowerDVD (for those of us with HTPC capabilities).
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I think you mean, best efforts of Congress. And you have no fair use rights on DVD, or via any "ripping" method of copying HDDVD. Sorry, call your Representative if you don't like it.
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The only HD-DVD that can be copied and played from a hard drive right now is EAGLES-FAREWELL TOUR 1-LIVE MELBOURNE. All HD-DVD's except this one have AACS (Advanced Access Content System) implemented which prevents hard drive playback at this time. If you are interested in a using your system as a Home Theater Computer I would recommend you read up about it at AVS Forums HTC
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=26
A few HD-DVDs have been AACS cracked, from what I've read, once the AACS group has determined the means by which this is accomplished all new HD-DVD's will contain a lockout and only play on an updated player (Software/Hardware) to close the security hole.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=26
A few HD-DVDs have been AACS cracked, from what I've read, once the AACS group has determined the means by which this is accomplished all new HD-DVD's will contain a lockout and only play on an updated player (Software/Hardware) to close the security hole.
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Originally Posted by Spiky
I think you mean, best efforts of Congress. And you have no fair use rights on DVD, or via any "ripping" method of copying HDDVD. Sorry, call your Representative if you don't like it.
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Originally Posted by JParks94563
The only HD-DVD that can be copied and played from a hard drive right now is EAGLES-FAREWELL TOUR 1-LIVE MELBOURNE. All HD-DVD's except this one have AACS (Advanced Access Content System) implemented which prevents hard drive playback at this time. If you are interested in a using your system as a Home Theater Computer I would recommend you read up about it at AVS Forums HTC
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=26
A few HD-DVDs have been AACS cracked, from what I've read, once the AACS group has determined the means by which this is accomplished all new HD-DVD's will contain a lockout and only play on an updated player (Software/Hardware) to close the security hole.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=26
A few HD-DVDs have been AACS cracked, from what I've read, once the AACS group has determined the means by which this is accomplished all new HD-DVD's will contain a lockout and only play on an updated player (Software/Hardware) to close the security hole.
And it is possible to play these decrypted titles from a hard drive.