Xbox 360’s HD-DVD Addon Opened and tested on XP, Vista, Mac OSX
Xbox 360’s HD-DVD Addon Opened and tested on XP, Vista, Mac OSX
>> The guys over at uneasysilence.com talk about how to use the Xbox360 HD-DVD addon on a PC. In case you missed the news Saturday on xbox-scene, Toshiba drivers have been released on net net that will allow Windows XP to recognize the Xbox360 HD-DVD addon if you connect it via USB with your PC.
The guys over at 360insider.net even say Windows Vista has the drivers built-in. Apparently the drive will be recognized and automatically installed on Windows Vista.
To test if you can not just read the content (fileview) of HD-DVD discs but also play HD-DVD movies, uneasysilence.com installed WinDVD 8 that has support to playback HD-DVD movies on Windows (update: apparently only the japanese version of WinDVD can playback HD-DVD atm). The HD-DVD movies played just fine on their Windows XP using the $200 Xbox360 HD-DVD Addon.
They also connected the addon with Mac OSX … it was automatically recognized, and when a DVD disc was inserted the “DVD Player” application included in the OS started doing its thing. However they could not test HD-DVD movies as Mac OSX has no player for these discs yet.
They also opened on the Xbox360 HD-DVD Xbox 360 Addon. It looks like the drive found in the case, made by Toshiba, uses a non-standard plug (update: apparently it is a standard laptop CD/DVD drive connector (mini ATAPI) which can easily be converted to IDE, sry for the mistake).
