puting a hd dvd driver in a 360
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well is it posible to play games, mp3 and dvd on you hd dvd driver, if so is it posible to put in a 360 with out moding the case?
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I've got a better reason: $$$jperryss wrote:You mean drive, not driveR, right? Nope, it's actually slower at reading DVDs/games than the stock 360 drive. At least, that's what MS said when asked why they didn't include the HD-DVD drive in the Elite.silent killer wrote:ya thanks but i thought it would be faster then the old driver
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Could it be that the USB interface isn't fast enough? It isn't optimized for speed like the DVD drive's SATA connection (which is faster than USB). And I'm sure that, if they wanted to, the HD-DVD drive could read games fast enough to load right.jperryss wrote:Like I said above, MS said they didn't do it because the HD-DVD drive is slower at reading normal DVDs than the stock 360 drive, and therefore not fast enough to load games properly.Twisted Warthog wrote:I wonder how much more it would of cost Microsoft to put the HD-DVD drive in the Elite.
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That doesn't make sense, since isn't HD-DVD more information intensive than games?vskid wrote:Could it be that the USB interface isn't fast enough? It isn't optimized for speed like the DVD drive's SATA connection (which is faster than USB). And I'm sure that, if they wanted to, the HD-DVD drive could read games fast enough to load right.jperryss wrote:Like I said above, MS said they didn't do it because the HD-DVD drive is slower at reading normal DVDs than the stock 360 drive, and therefore not fast enough to load games properly.
They didn't include the HD-DVD drive in the Elite because it would be about the same price as a PS3.
PS3: $599
Elite: $479.99
HD-DVD drive: $199.99
Subtotal: 679.98
Subtract about $20 for the DVD-ROM drive, and probably $30 or so for the HD DVD drive's supporting hardware, and the price comes out to about $630. (Prices are approximate, of course.) This would have been bad for Microsoft, since the PS3 apparently has this ungodly bloated sky-high price tag...
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I did some research, and after finding that HD-DVD is directly backwards compatible to DVD, I decided that the reason you can't play games on the HD-DVD player is that Microsoft doesn't want you to. Thats all there is to it.bicostp wrote:That doesn't make sense, since isn't HD-DVD more information intensive than games?vskid wrote:Could it be that the USB interface isn't fast enough? It isn't optimized for speed like the DVD drive's SATA connection (which is faster than USB). And I'm sure that, if they wanted to, the HD-DVD drive could read games fast enough to load right.jperryss wrote:Like I said above, MS said they didn't do it because the HD-DVD drive is slower at reading normal DVDs than the stock 360 drive, and therefore not fast enough to load games properly.