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Driver extract allows HD-DVD drive to be used on Windows XP

Posted Nov 11, 2006 at 4:55PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: EULA, Microsoft, Toshiba, Windows XP

Perhaps HD-DVD Emergence Day emerges twice - but for reasons not covered in Microsoft's End User License Agreement (EULA). On the same day as Microsoft unveiled the HD-DVD addon for the Xbox 360, BluePrint found a way to make the add-on work on a Windows XP PC.

Xbox-Scene reports on the "XBOX360 HD-DVDRom UDF Reader v2.5 Windows XP BluePrint". It's essentially the Toshiba driver used in their first generation of HD-DVDs, and which allows the PC to communicate with the HD-DVD reader. These are unmodified by BluePrint, as they didn't create them themselves, and there are some issues with "there (sic) availability... limited to specific machines which were (sic) familiar with from our places of business".

The drivers mean that PCs can now read HD-DVDs as HD-DVDs, using the Xbox 360 add-on. Which means, says BluePrint, you can copy the contents of the HD-DVD into your PC. But let's not get ahead of ourselves here. This isn't a clear-cut rip of the HD-DVD movie for starters ("you will not be directly copying any hd-dvd's as of yet" due to the dual-layer, 30GB format of HD-DVDs), and second, Xbox-Scene ain't hosting the drivers as they could be a violation of the EULA, and for that neither are we.

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One thing you people have to realize is that your computer will have to do all the processing for the HD-DVD add-on.

Since the Xbox360 will have to use all 6 threads and keep them at or near 100%, imagine what kind of system you will need just to use this add-on on a PC. If you think your Core 2 Duo will be enough, then think again, HD DVD rips are re-encoded before uploaded to the internet not because of its size, its because the average person doesnt have the PC capable of using the raw data from HD-DVD movies.

# You are wrong — Guest 2006-11-12 09:10

The Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD player that has been out in the US for a while now uses a 2.5GHz P4 CPU with 1GB of RAM so a Core 2 Duo CPU will have no problem playing HD-DVDs. You need to stop posting false information.

# Nope — Guest 2006-11-12 17:19

Not a problem at all. If you have a modern NVidia graphics card, most of the processing is done in hardware. Which means even an old Athlon XP could easily handle HD-DVD.

# Drivers — Guest 2006-11-13 16:06

They are floating around on the net. For legality reasons we can not post the modified driver they customized. There are however more then one driver, from PC Drives, that have been rumored to work as well, or so I\'ve read over the last few days...

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