Kotaku: Xbox 360 HD DVD Drops To $50
by moose
Rip: Xbox 360 HD DVD Drops To $50:
Now that Microsoft has officially announced the death of their HD DVD add-on for the Xbox 360, the only thing left to do is to sweep the technological corpses out of warehouses
Hmm, I wonder who would buy it now? Maybe to watch all these “buy one get 15 free” HD-DVD movies in the “fire sale” section?
February 26th, 2008 at 22:13 CET
At $50 it is a pretty decent DVD read-only drive that is powered by the USB port. It could be used with any old mac to add a USB 2.0 DVD-reader (regular movies and/or OS/software DVDs).
Maybe you can find cheaper ext. read-only DVD drive solutions, but $50 is pretty close…
February 26th, 2008 at 23:57 CET
I’m not sure whether that device can be used with anything else than a 360… I’m not even sure that the 360 uses standard USB ports actually.
February 27th, 2008 at 00:00 CET
OK, I checked, it does use standard USB ports ;-)
And you can use it on a PC or Mac: http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/11/8303/
Actually, the Mac does not even need drivers, it “just works” although there’s no software for palying HD-DVD discs on the Mac so you are stuck with standard DVDs.
March 3rd, 2008 at 19:33 CET
Kotaku: Xbox 360 HD DVD Drops To $50…
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