Macbook/Macbook Pro playing HD-DVD's

I was looking through DVD player and I noticed that DVD Player (after checking help and seeing the supported features) that it can play HD-DVDs.

It states that HD-DVDs that are made in DVD Studio Pro and burned to a HD-DVD will play. To even read a HD-DVD disc, you need to have a special laser.

Has anyone actually took a normal commerical HD-DVD and tried it anyways? I'm assuming since it can read the HD-DVD format, its possible that hollywood HD-DVD's can be played, DVD player also even has all the HD-DVD preferences enabled.

Apple states that you need to have Quartz Extreme Support and HD-DVD support to play HD-DVD discs, to see if you can you go to DVD Player > Help > Show Supported Features.

Anyways, if it comes to the case that DVD Studio Pro puts some kind of file on so that when the HD-DVD loads, it reads that first and than plays it, and the commerical HD-DVD movies don't work, it sounds like it's something that can be modified to work that way.

 

Apple's notebooks playing HD-DVDs? It sounds very unlikely - Apple and Toshiba would've made a big deal about it (especially Toshiba, because they'd be getting Apple, which is a pretty big win in the media department).

 

I saw that too - I don't think it can, maybe it's a software thing. I have not try it but I was able to watch an HD DVD clip that I downloaded on mBp with great res.

 

Apparently I misread somethings, Guess thats what happens when you just woke up.

Forget what I ssaid.