HD DVD on PC with HD DVD Drive

[Salsa Party Animal]

I got PC powerful enough and my DVI output to HDMI cable on my TV.

I dislike the colour output on HD DVD on my XBOX 360 via component. I find it is too pale and not warm enough.

Can anyone tell me if it worth using my PC as HD DVD player. I don't have enough cash to buy a new DVD player.

I find the colour output poor compared to my Denon 1920 on DVD.

[SegaMark]

I hear you can use those 360 HD-DVD drives on PC. I take it you own the 360 HD-DVD drive?

[Salsa Party Animal]

Of course.

[sj33]

I use my 360 HD-DVD drive on my PC, Vista detects it straight away (there are XP drivers), works excellent.

You need PowerDVD Ultra for HD-DVD playback, but the image and sound quality totally destroy the 360. You need HDCP for DVI/HDMI, though ironically VGA works fine at full resolution.

Playing a HD-DVD only takes up ~41% of CPU according to task manager, on my machine (Core2 Xtreme X6800, 2GB DDR2 800MHz, 7900GTO).

[Soi]

Is there a Mac solution?

[Baseley09]

I use my 360 HD-DVD drive on my PC, Vista detects it straight away (there are XP drivers), works excellent.

You need PowerDVD Ultra for HD-DVD playback, but the image and sound quality totally destroy the 360. You need HDCP for DVI/HDMI, though ironically VGA works fine at full resolution.

Playing a HD-DVD only takes up ~41% of CPU according to task manager, on my machine (Core2 Xtreme X6800, 2GB DDR2 800MHz, 7900GTO).

Do you know if you can get full resolution using component video from the PC?

[Pezley]

there is an App called AnyDVD , quite expensive but gets rid of the HDCP problem and allows full output from component , VGA or even HDMI if the system isnt HDCP enabled

[sj33]

I'm pretty sure Component does work at full resolution, they just decided to make the digital connection require HDCP. Good job I use VGA

Of course, analogue will be downscaled when they enable the ICT flag in films, but I honestly think HD-DVD will be dead by then *cough* (and would affect the 360 too).

[Salsa Party Animal]

Looked at my DVDs that came with the PC and there is Cyberlink PowerDVD 6 with serial number. So I am going to give it a go.

[sj33]

It has to be PowerDVD Ultra, specifically.

http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/products/main_112_ENU.html