blippy @ Sep 27th 2006 3:14PM

clipped from AVS Forums

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=8503607&&#post8503607

TheLion: Nevertheless I would just LOVE to get an answer to my question...PLEASE Amir...or at least a hint when we will get to know (hopefully before a geek is ripping the poor, little addon apart and does all kind of objectionable experimenting on it...)

AmirM: OK, simple answer is that we are not selling a drive. We are selling a complete HD DVD playback solution. And right now, all of our energy is focused on getting it working on the 360. We don't want to target the PC with it, without having tested it that way. The desire is there internally to market the drive for PC use but we simply don't have the bandwidth to do so (hard to imagine Microsoft being resource constrained but we are ).

TheLion: Thank you very much for the response. I understand that. I never expected Microsoft to officially support the HTPC usability of this drive/solution. But since it has physically a USB2 interface and possibly a drive inside with standard IDE/SATA interface it should be easy enough to make it recognizable for Vista driven PCs. Nobody expects a complete HTPC playback solution from MS with this drive. But to unofficially making it technically work as external USB2 drive for PCs (without any further support) would be a huge thing for the whole HD-DVD cause. So again, what will UNOFFICIALLY happen if you connect the drive to a MS Vista PC?

Taxidermista: Excuse me, if you don't mind... maybe the question can be asked (and who knows? answered) in reverse.

amirm, has Microsoft any particular desire in placing physical obstacles on the HD-DVD "add-on" to discourage potencial uses besides the intended one?

AmirM: Good question. Simply put, we have done nothing to make it difficult to use the drive on a PC.

CandyRocket786: Note to self..... must pickup extra 360 HD-Drive