Comments on: Yet Another Blu-Ray on 360 Rumor Squashed

By: george munoz

george munoz — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:51:48 +0000

Yes, Merry Xmas to you all. By the way, where in the whole world is the zombie hd dvd…?

By: ogscorpion

ogscorpion — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:43:15 +0000

Yep…Happy HDDVD to all!

By: Juve

Juve — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:46:48 +0000

Right on Rick!!!!

Merry Christmas to you too!!!

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:59:43 +0000

Merry
Christmas, to all of my fellow HD-DVD ‘rs.

By: ogscorpion

ogscorpion — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:48:35 +0000

Yes it is a shame indeed.

By: Juve

Juve — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:10:11 +0000

I’ve tried but no cigar. Same goes for Blu-ray discs. PowerDVD 9 will integrate itself into Media Center and you can play Blu-ray discs from it, but Cyberlink dropped HD DVD support since PowerDVD 8. There is a patch out there for 8 that will give it HD DVD support, but the moment you run any update on it, it drops it again. Sad how VCD is still being supported knowing that it died off well over ten years ago, but no support for HD DVD. Shame on the industry.

By: ogscorpion

ogscorpion — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:53:50 +0000

Awesome info there Juve, thanks a bunch!!!! Now I will pick up an upgrade version of W7 on my Quad Core Dell PC. So I’m guessing that the Media Center version of Windows 7 doesn’t have a built in player support for HDDVD? Have you tried playing HDDVD movies in Media Center? Just curious.

By: Juve

Juve — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:51:34 +0000

ogscorpion,

Success. I just bought me an HP Laptop with Windows 7 in it. I plugged in the 360 HD DVD drive to it and it automatically installed drivers no problem.
One thing. When you install your retail version of PowerDVD 7 Ultra, do not download the latest update. It will not install, and if you leave the regular retail version on there without an update, it will not play any media, not even DVDs. Follow this link I got from Cyberlink.
http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/patches_112_en_US.html
This update will go all the way through. Once you launch PowerDVD 7 Ultra, do not update it. It will continue to send you to the messed up update that won’t install on Windows 7. This one will work even if you ignore the update prompt. Plays Blu-rays and HD DVDs flawlessly.
Enjoy!

By: ogscorpion

ogscorpion — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:59:03 +0000

Thanks again Juve! Just tried it and it is now working. Now I can watch my HDDVDs on my XP machine. Woohoo!

Thanks also Pravin. I will definitely take advantage of that site. I need 10gs for online storage.

By: Juve

Juve — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:08:12 +0000

Pravin,

Thanks for the info. Gonna try it. 10 GB is way better than 2GB and I need the online storage space.