 Excellant, low cost, choice for a PC home theater system |
| Review Date: November 14, 2009 |
| Reviewer: N. Jackson, Sebastian, FL United States |
For just $34.99 ([...]) an HD/DVD player for your PC. What's not to like! Right out of the box connected the power source to the drive and the usb plug to my turned off pc. Started up the pc and during the boot up process, Windows 7 identified the drive as a , TOSHIBA DVD/HD X807616 USB Device [CD-ROM drive) and loaded the drivers. Now you need to have a monitor and video card that are capable of 1920 x 1080 resolution and the software to play it.I have,a 2.40 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 with 3328 Megabytes Installed Memory , ATI Radeon HD 3850 [Display adapter]
DELL P2210H [Monitor]and CyberLink Corp. - PowerDVD Version 7.03.2925 . Inserted the hd/dvd movie that came with the drive, KING KONG, and it started playing the movie in HD and using the 2.1 channel stereo sound of my PC. What better way to enjoy the bargains now available on new HD/DVD movies. I just got a lot of 23 new hd/dvd movies off of [...]for $21.05 . If you have a system capable of playing High Definition, this is the way to go! |
great hd player
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| Review Date: June 11, 2008 |
| Reviewer: "Akka", |
| before hd died (RIP) this was an amazing player. I still use it to play dvd's and hd dvds that i still own. Works amazing!!! very clear picture on my 42 inch 1080p tv with hdmi! :-D good thing I have a blu ray player too so I didnt lose nothing buying this before hd died |
360 HD-DVD
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| Review Date: November 2, 2008 |
| Reviewer: L. Taylor, USA |
| This device came in handy when my DVD player broke. The quality of the picture is excellent and I get to watch movies with friends. |
The cheap way to watch HD movies
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| Review Date: February 8, 2010 |
| Reviewer: R. Sides, AL |
Although HD-DVD lost the battle to Blu-ray in the format wars, there are still quite a few titles out there available for HD-DVD. You will not see any new titles coming out on the format, but there are some good movies already out that you can pick up often for less than $5 compared to the average $20 to $30 for popular blu-ray titles.
I still recommend getting a Blu-ray for newer movies, but for what was already published, the HD-DVD player for the 360 works great! |
Very good picture quality, very good price
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| Review Date: June 1, 2007 |
| Reviewer: C. Freitag, Denver, CO USA |
I bought an Xbox 360 after Thanksgiving of 2006 and I was immediately impressed with the system. It was so good, in fact, that I went out after New Year's and upgraded my entire entertainment center with a new Samsung LN-S4051D, Samsung DVD-HD860, and Yamaha YSP-800. If you're going to do it, do it right. First off, the Samsung DVD-HD860 was a dismal player. The thing kept freezing up during playback and the image wasn't anything to write home about. I mean, my LCD is only 720p and I was seeing a lot of artifacts.
I returned the Samsung DVD player and decided to take a chance on the HD DVD add-on for the Xbox. The way I looked at it was it was only $100 more than what I already paid and then I could watch some movies in true High Definition. That was one of the best moves I made because not only do the HD movies look fantastic but it absolutely DESTROYS the Samsung in upconverting my standard-def DVDs. Regular DVDs look excellent.
One very big drawback is the amount of noise the Xbox makes while watching a movie. It's absurd. Not a big deal if you're watching The Matrix and you've got the volume cranked with Dolby TrueHD sound. But it's a constant nuisance when you're trying to get into a more dramatic and quiet movie like Unforgiven (which looks absolutely stunning on HD DVD).
Another concern I'm having is that my Xbox is on almost all of the time now. I'm either playing a game, watching a DVD or HD DVD, or I'm watching a movie from my iTunes library on my computer. The Xbox has truly become the center of attention in my living room. I just don't know if it can handle that kind of workload for long.
Seriously though, for $199 it's not that bad of a gamble. You can rent HD DVD movies from Netflix or Blockbuster so you don't even need to invest in the movies. I bought 4 and I now own the Matrix trilogy but I'm probably not buying more until I see what happens with HD DVD and Blu-ray. I have picked a side but if HD DVD loses I'm really not out that much. And I get to enjoy some great HD content while I'm waiting. |
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