Xbox360 HD DVD drive recognized as optical drive on PCs?

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According to Gizmodo, the Xbox360 HD-DVD drive can be plugged into a PC and it will be recognized as an optical drive, but it will not play HD-DVD movies. Could it be possible with the proper HD-DVD software on the PC? Maybe. Well, $199 dollar HD DVD external drives that would work on a PC with a software addition sounds pretty cool to me.




Some things I found out, and can talk about is the 360 HD-DVD drive can be plugged into a PC and it will be recognized as an optical drive, but will not play HD-DVD movies. I asked what if you have the proper HD-DVD software on the PC, to that [redacted] said that he didn’t know, it hadn’t been tried yet- maybe there’s something there…

Source: Gizmodo

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