Xbox 360 HD DVD drive running on a MBP

by Ben Drawbaugh posted Dec 11th 2006 at 4:42PM

Every now and then you see something on the Internet that makes you think, Why didn't I think of that? It isn't really that extraordinary, but one step ahead of what you might have thought of. This is one of those videos where a Engadget HD contributor not only made his Xbox 360 HD DVD drive work with his computer, but took it one step further and got it running on his Mac Book Pro, unfortunately he used Boot Camp to make it happen. It would have been cool if it would work with OS X, but it appears we will have wait till Apple supports it, with any luck we will know more at Macworld Expo.

Filed under: DIY, HD DVD

Tags: Apple, HD DVD, HdDvd, MBP, Xbox

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TV @ Dec 12th 2006 10:24AM

Why is this news? Really? He's running this on XP via BootCamp (which it already works on).

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Ben Drawbaugh @ Dec 11th 2006 5:01PM

No it's not news, but it doesn't have to be since this isn't CNN.com

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Travis Bell @ Dec 11th 2006 5:25PM

What's with the audio sync issues?

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Porsche 911 @ Dec 11th 2006 5:31PM

Running this on a MacBook Pro does not mean anything. MacBook Pro is a computer just like any other, now if we were talking about a Mac then it is a whole different story, a phenomenal story indeed. If we can run this on a Mac then I would differently buy one, and I have an Xbox360, it is a win-win situation for me. So far I love my PS3 since it includes a HDMI input. Running this HD-DVD player on a computer would be nice, since computers support HDCP it is capable of running at full/true 1080p HD. If this can run on a Mac, since Mac unlike Windows can recognize any USB devices, then I would definitely buy one, the only problem is Mac does not have any Blu-Ray and HD-DVD playback support.

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attack11 @ Dec 11th 2006 6:52PM

the cd that comes with the hddvd drive has windows drivers on it. this was news back when the drive came out. laggy site.

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Lobato @ Dec 13th 2006 12:56PM

I remember when this was news that someone plugged the HD-DVD drive to a mac (ppc?) on osx and it was immediately detected by the OS. The only thing from keeping them from watching hd-dvd movies with it was the lack of a hd player for the Mac OSX.

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