Did you know that if you buy an Xbox360 HD DVD Drive (USB 2.0) and plug it into your Windows PC, plug-and-play will auto detect the drive, automatically find the drivers on the Internet (if you let it search) and you’ll be good to go? (You can buy the HD DVD drive from NewEgg for $187 – and that’ll be the cheapest way to get an HD movie experience.)
Just did this with my laptop. The only catch after that was I did the install, I still needed to get some HD DVD playback software. Here’s two players that will allow you to playback HD DVD content on your laptop.
- Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra
http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/products/main_112_ENU.html - Intervideo WinDVD Platinum 8 (Only Platinum Edition supports HD video)
http://www.intervideo.com/WinDVD/
One catch though: (Quoting a comment read from Gizmodo)
"To play HD-DVD’s in highest resolution over digital connections, all the components in the chain must be HDCP compatible i.e. you must have a HDCP enabled graphics card and HDCP enabled display."
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