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    360 HD-DVD player with P-series-FX

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Horrorshow1980, Jun 13, 2008.

  1. Horrorshow1980

    Horrorshow1980 Newbie

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    Has anyone here been able to use their X-Box 360 HD-DVD player to watch HD-DVD movies on their laptop? If so, how did you go about doing so? I know that there is a way out there, and it was free. I just don't want to pay a hundred something dollars for the hd codec since it is an obsolete format anyway. Still it would be nice to be able to watch my existing dvd's on my laptop in HD. Maybe I am posting this in the wrong forum but the people in this gateway/emachines forum are all so courteous and smart:wink: Also I have the P-6831-FX if that helps thanks!
     
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  2. jehovany8888

    jehovany8888 Notebook Guru

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    you can´t do that
     
    jehovany8888, Jun 13, 2008
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  3. royk50

    royk50 times being what they are

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    what problems do you have on trying that ?
    not sure the display is hdcp compliant or some other 4 letter word.

    try AnyDVD HD from SlySoft

     
    royk50, Jun 14, 2008
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    andrewe1 Notebook Consultant

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    yes you can, I did it back when they came out with the software but I forgot what it was...
     
    andrewe1, Jun 14, 2008
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    iaTa Do Not Feed

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    Just use CyberLink's PowerDVD HD-DVD Edition and you should be fine. There is even a hack for the latest versions of PowerDVD which officially only support BluRay to enable HD-DVD playback:

    http://pdvd8hddvd.googlepages.com/
     
    iaTa, Jun 14, 2008
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