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Game Information
- Platform: Xbox 360
- ELSPA Minimum Age: 11
- Media: Accessory
- Item Quantity: 1
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Technical Details
- Stunning video and immersive surround-sound audio with up to six times higher resolution than standard DVD.
- Innovative interactive content enables PIP commentary, scene selection, and menu access, all while the movie is playing!
- Only HD DVD offers a 'combo' disk: DVD on one side allows playback on all your existing DVD players in your home or car.
- Enjoy hundreds of great HD DVD movies this holiday from major studios such as Universal, Warner, Paramount, Studio Canal, and more
- Direct connection to the Xbox 360 console
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Product Description
Computeractive
just as good - if not better than - the £1,000 dedicated Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray player
Product Description
* This item is only available for UK mainland delivery. Please contact us if you are interested in having this item sent elsewhere.
Includes:
HD DVD Player
Media Remote
12 Months Warranty
You`ve experienced next-gen gaming on Xbox 360 now experience next-gen DVD movies with HD DVD. The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player is the most affordable way to jump into the next generation of DVD technology, along with the flexibility to enter when you are ready. Just plug Xbox 360 HD DVD Player into Xbox 360 and enjoy the ultimate home theatre experience with more clarity and detail than broadcast, cable or satellite HD. Feed your HDTV the high definition content it craves with HD DVD on Xbox 360!
- Stunning video and immersive surround-sound audio with up to six times higher resolution than standard DVD
- Innovative interactive content enables PIP commentary, scene selection, and menu access, all while the movie is playing!
- Only HD DVD offers a `combo` disk: DVD on one side allows playback on all your existing DVD players in your home or car
- Enjoy hundreds of great HD DVD movies this holiday from major studios such as Universal, Warner, Paramount, Studio Canal, and more
- HD DVD supports a maximum resolution of 1080p - and the latest Xbox 360 firmware update adds support for this. In addition, you can also choose to downscale to 1080i or 720p if either`s the native resolution of your TV. Fo
- HD output you`ll need either a component-video or VGA cable
XBOX 360 Console required - NOT included
This is a USA item that is region free. UK mains plug supplied. This item will work with UK consoles and play both UK HD-DVDs and USA HD-DVDs.
We provide our own 12 months Fully warranty for this product.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
50 of 52 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I too just made the upgrade to the HD DVD drive for the xbox 360.
Setting this up seems pretty straight forward and yes your xbox 360 needs to have connection to the internet so that it can download some updates. This won't take long.
The package and features include:
External HD DVD drive
Remote Controller and batteries
The HD DVD drive has 2 extra USB ports
installation disc and manual
Cable to connect HD DVD drive to the back of your 360
Requires its own power supply but thankfully its a lot smaller than the brick that you need for the 360.
Picture quality is great, again, as other reviewers have stated you will not really notice that much of a difference between the HD DVD's and standard DVDs but to be honest to really notice the improved detail quality, hook it up to a huge projector or massive 40+ in" LCD/Plasma TV and then play your old standard dvds on it and then say you can't notice any difference!
Also it might help if you change the resolution settings on your xbox 360 display (ie 720P, 1080i and 1080P if your TV supports these resolutions) plus use either component/VGA/HDMI cable instead of the composite (ie red/white and yellow connectors) These will give you a much noticable difference. But again what cable you can use will depend on what connections your TV/monitor can accept.
Another great thing about the HD DVD drive is that all HD DVD's are region free so you can play Asian, Japanese, USA, UK and European HD DVD movies in your HD DVD drive (This does NOT apply to standard DVDs). I recently purchased a HD DVD that had quite a lot of scratches and it played fine Plus you can hook the external HD DVD drive to your pc and watch movies on there (provided your pc is powerful enough to do that)..
One last thing is that the external drive is quiet and don't heat up to crazy temperatues during operation, and after watching HD DVD's and other standard DVDs, taking them out of the drive and feeling how cool they are to the touch is assuring.
Setting this up seems pretty straight forward and yes your xbox 360 needs to have connection to the internet so that it can download some updates. This won't take long.
The package and features include:
External HD DVD drive
Remote Controller and batteries
The HD DVD drive has 2 extra USB ports
installation disc and manual
Cable to connect HD DVD drive to the back of your 360
Requires its own power supply but thankfully its a lot smaller than the brick that you need for the 360.
Picture quality is great, again, as other reviewers have stated you will not really notice that much of a difference between the HD DVD's and standard DVDs but to be honest to really notice the improved detail quality, hook it up to a huge projector or massive 40+ in" LCD/Plasma TV and then play your old standard dvds on it and then say you can't notice any difference!
Also it might help if you change the resolution settings on your xbox 360 display (ie 720P, 1080i and 1080P if your TV supports these resolutions) plus use either component/VGA/HDMI cable instead of the composite (ie red/white and yellow connectors) These will give you a much noticable difference. But again what cable you can use will depend on what connections your TV/monitor can accept.
Another great thing about the HD DVD drive is that all HD DVD's are region free so you can play Asian, Japanese, USA, UK and European HD DVD movies in your HD DVD drive (This does NOT apply to standard DVDs). I recently purchased a HD DVD that had quite a lot of scratches and it played fine Plus you can hook the external HD DVD drive to your pc and watch movies on there (provided your pc is powerful enough to do that)..
One last thing is that the external drive is quiet and don't heat up to crazy temperatues during operation, and after watching HD DVD's and other standard DVDs, taking them out of the drive and feeling how cool they are to the touch is assuring.
41 of 43 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Just a thought...since it has USB leads, I've tried to run it through the PC to watch Hot Fuzz & it worked!!! It recognised it straight away and was up and running in no time. So if you want you can bypass the 360 and use it on the computer instead.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Got the HD player for Christmas and I am really delighted with the quality of picture/sound that it gives out. For the price you really cannot beat it, the player also upscales normal DVD's so all my DVD's HD or not look great!
I also took adavantage of the 5 free HD DVD's from Microsoft which is superb, 5 free DVD's for nothing so that made the whole deal even better.
The only dark cloud on the Horizon is that Toshiba are no longer going to support this format, which means that the Xbox 360 is shortly going to be the only way that you can view HD DVD's. How many movie companies will produce HD films on this basis?? I doubt very few if any. It seems that Blue Ray is going to win out.
The only way that I can see this format being saved is if the coming Xbox 360 Ultimate has the HD player bulit in (as rumoured) and there are massive sales resulting in a demand for the HD format and other HD players.
Unfortunately I think it is unlikely. So in short its a great player but you may have nothing new to play on it before long!!
I also took adavantage of the 5 free HD DVD's from Microsoft which is superb, 5 free DVD's for nothing so that made the whole deal even better.
The only dark cloud on the Horizon is that Toshiba are no longer going to support this format, which means that the Xbox 360 is shortly going to be the only way that you can view HD DVD's. How many movie companies will produce HD films on this basis?? I doubt very few if any. It seems that Blue Ray is going to win out.
The only way that I can see this format being saved is if the coming Xbox 360 Ultimate has the HD player bulit in (as rumoured) and there are massive sales resulting in a demand for the HD format and other HD players.
Unfortunately I think it is unlikely. So in short its a great player but you may have nothing new to play on it before long!!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
a great buy!
I ordered this product as a present for my nephew about 10 days before Christmas. When I ordered this, the estimated delivery said it would be between the 19th Dec - 4th Jan which... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Kayleigha1988
Cheap movies
I would recommend buying this just for the cheap movies you can get, these are the same as blu-ray at about £2 each. This also comes with the remote which is handy. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Harrison
fantastic! and i even got the remote control to!
i brought this great add on for xbox, and was even more pleased to find the xbox remote control in the box, i wasent exspecting that so that saved me money.
Published 16 months ago by James Heal
It totally worth the money now!
I bought this HD-DVD player for my PC, as a matter of fact this is the cheapest external DVD player and it's really worth getting one. Read more
Published on 24 Dec 2009 by P. Marck
xbox360 hd dvd player
This product is now, unfortunately, nearly obsolete. Due to the success of Blu-ray over HD DVD, there are no longer any new HD DVDs being released - hence purchasers of this... Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2009 by Malcolm Baguley
HDMI surround support
if you are using the HDMI output on the xbox360 and it not connected to a surround sound system via hdmi or digital optical then there will be NO sound. Read more
Published on 5 April 2009 by D. Pickering
HD DVD - Unbeleivable picture / quality - Defunct but still Good!!
I have only just bought an XBOX 360 (October 2008!)and decided to also shell out £40 on the HD DVD player for the 360. Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2008 by Mr. Jeremy P. Peacock
#1 But Why Stop Making Discs?
Brilliant player, I got mine from Gamestation for £25 with 2 movies but only problem with it is that they may not be making any more new films for them. Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2008 by Luke Addison-Doy
H D DVD..........
I have just brought one of these yes I know HD DVD is on its way out but it was £25 and with most HD DVD's selling for around a fiver you can't go wrong. Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2008 by Starlored
Just got one for £20 from Game
Wow what a bargain just managed to get one of these cool drives from Game, ok yes HD is on its way out but with the choice of films still out there in hd you could hardly complain... Read more
Published on 25 May 2008 by Mr. M. Hardy
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