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- Stunning video and immersive surround-sound audio with up to six times higher resolution than standard DVD.
- Innovative interactive content enables PIP commentary, scene selection, and menu access, all while the movie is playing!
- Only HD DVD offers a 'combo' disk: DVD on one side allows playback on all your existing DVD players in your home or car.
- Enjoy hundreds of great HD DVD movies this holiday from major studios such as Universal, Warner, Paramount, Studio Canal, and more
- Direct connection to the Xbox 360 console
Manufacturer's Description
The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player offers Xbox 360 owners the most affordable way to jump into the next generation of DVD technology and experience HD DVD when they are ready. Just add Xbox 360 HD DVD Player to Xbox 360 for the ultimate home-theatre experience with more clarity and detail than high-definition TV (HDTV) content via broadcast, cable or satellite.
User Comments
Setting this up is pretty straight forward and your XBOX 360 needs to have a connection to the internet so that it can quickly download some updates. This won't take long though.
The package and features include:
External HD DVD drive
Remote control and batteries
The HD DVD drive has 2 extra USB ports
installation disc and manual
Cable to connect HD DVD drive to the back of your XBOX 360
Requires its own power supply but thankfully its a lot smaller than the brick that you need for the 360.
Picture quality is great although as other reviewers have stated you will possibly not really notice so much of a difference between the HD DVD's and standard DVDs. However, to really notice the improved detail quality, hook it up to a huge projector or massive 40+ in" LCD/Plasma TV and then play your old standard dvds on it and then say you can't notice any difference!
It might help if you change the resolution settings on your XBOX 360 display (ie 720P, 1080i and 1080P if your TV supports these resolutions) plus use either component/VGA/HDMI cable instead of the composite (ie red/white and yellow connectors). These will give you a much more noticable difference although the cable you can use will depend on what connections your TV/monitor can accept.
Another great thing about the HD DVD drive is that all HD DVD's are region free so you can play Asian, Japanese, USA, UK and European HD DVD movies in your HD DVD drive. This does NOT apply to standard DVDs. I recently purchased a HD DVD that had quite a lot of scratches and it played fine plus you can hook the external HD DVD drive to your pc and watch movies on there (provided your pc is powerful enough to do that).
One last thing is that the external drive is quiet and doesn't heat up to crazy temperatues during operation. After watching HD DVD's and other standard DVDs, when you take them out of the drive you will notice how cool they are to the touch which is quite re-assuring.
The package and features include:
External HD DVD drive
Remote control and batteries
The HD DVD drive has 2 extra USB ports
installation disc and manual
Cable to connect HD DVD drive to the back of your XBOX 360
Requires its own power supply but thankfully its a lot smaller than the brick that you need for the 360.
Picture quality is great although as other reviewers have stated you will possibly not really notice so much of a difference between the HD DVD's and standard DVDs. However, to really notice the improved detail quality, hook it up to a huge projector or massive 40+ in" LCD/Plasma TV and then play your old standard dvds on it and then say you can't notice any difference!
It might help if you change the resolution settings on your XBOX 360 display (ie 720P, 1080i and 1080P if your TV supports these resolutions) plus use either component/VGA/HDMI cable instead of the composite (ie red/white and yellow connectors). These will give you a much more noticable difference although the cable you can use will depend on what connections your TV/monitor can accept.
Another great thing about the HD DVD drive is that all HD DVD's are region free so you can play Asian, Japanese, USA, UK and European HD DVD movies in your HD DVD drive. This does NOT apply to standard DVDs. I recently purchased a HD DVD that had quite a lot of scratches and it played fine plus you can hook the external HD DVD drive to your pc and watch movies on there (provided your pc is powerful enough to do that).
One last thing is that the external drive is quiet and doesn't heat up to crazy temperatues during operation. After watching HD DVD's and other standard DVDs, when you take them out of the drive you will notice how cool they are to the touch which is quite re-assuring.
