When the HD DVD released it was made for the first dashboard “blades” of the 360. That’s why when you had the installation disc inside, it told you to press the weird open tray button (which isn’t in any dashboard after blades) and was identical to the blades version of it’s open tray feature back in 2005-2008 :)
4:25 When the 360 launched in 2005, there was two versions of the console; the Premium and the Core. The Premium 360 console had a silver tray, wireless controller and a 20GB hard drive. The Core 360 console had a white tray, wired controller and no hard drive (a hard drive could be bought separately for the Core). You have the Core console. The Core was later replaced with the Arcade 360. They both had the same white tray.
@@armeniancrusader301 No. It didn't come with a hard drive. Your options, if you bought a Core and wanted to save your game progress, were either buy a 512mb memory card or a 20gb hard drive. Both were sold separately. Microsoft never released a hard drive smaller than 20GB. The hard drives kept getting bigger. It was up to 250GB when the 360 was eventually discontinued.
7:25 Notice the design of that screen. It's designed the same way as the old Blades Dashboard that was on the Xbox 360 before they were updated to NXE. The button it's talking about, probably existed on the Blades but didn't carry over to future versions of the dashboard
Actually microsoft make everything themselves only company they palled with is lg as both the tv and series x is using the same AI picture technology and the only console that runs at full 4k on 120hz and lg is the only tv that can support the xbox's full power
@@TrashWoodBand you do know microsoft is one company that makes part for every computer or console going 😂 why u think sony cant get there hands on the most powerful Amd ryzen graphics card from because microsoft are there partners and sony cant even beat the one x with the ps5 😂 kid you know nothing
Both formats were more or less identical, Blu-ray had the disc space advantage while HD DVD supported slightly higher video bitrates (and the format was region free). Both supported all the same video and audio codecs. Nowadays many HD DVD discs are already suffering from disc rot.
You have no clue what you are talking about. The format was worlds apart. HD DVD could be made on existing machines that made DVD. Blu required all new machinery to make the disks. If microsoft would of included the drive with the xbox 360 they would not of lost. Sony was smart in eating the costs of the bluray drive in the ps3. In fact Toshiba tried to get Microsoft to offer the drives for free and they wouldnt budge.
@@darrelldarrell1447 No duh they were physically different in terms of manufacturing but when it came to video and audio specification they were extremely similar. Not "worlds apart" at all.
Just so you know, it wasnt supposed to come with a remote. The remote was sold separately. I had one when it first came out and mine didnt come with a remote.
They made this format because they didn't want Sony having a share in the format market (Sony owns Blu-Ray, so they get money for every single blu-ray sold, regardless of what company made the movie). Long story short, Toshiba's plan didn't work out.
Wow this really brought back memories 😂 even though I never owned a HD DVD player, I do own a XBOX360, 60GB model. My friend back in that time thought HD DVD was better than Blu Ray. 😁 He was an True XBOX fan. He supported anything XBOX.
HD-DVD actually isn't a bad way to go these days if you can find a player cheap enough. I had someone give me a Toshiba player from 2008(A35 model) and starting buying discs from ebay a few years back. Can usually find some decent movies for literally a few bucks. People dumped the players long ago and just want to get rid of the discs. No visible difference between blu-rays and there are even a few HD versions of movies that were never released on BD as well. The HD-DVD drive for the 360 is going for like 10 bucks now. Picked 1 up for my 360 in my bedroom. Great quality player but the only downside is it will downgrade DTS-HD and TRUE HD audio to core DTS and DD as it lacks the capability to play the lossless stuff. Also if you buy 1 of the Toshiba players make sure to buy 07-08 as the early players lacked audio passthrough for receiver decoding and only were capable of 720p. Have a theater room in my house and people r' always stunned that their watching a dead format on a 12yr old player when I play 1 of these movies.
Late to the party here, but you are right in that the dashboard that the HDDVD drive installation desk was referring to was an older version. The original dashboard for the XB360 was very different in the early days, and looked a little bit like playing cards splayed over eachother.
Great video Jacob. Btw it was Philips besides Sony who developed the Blu-Ray. Philips also the inventor of the old CC (Compact Cassette), CD and DVD. :-)
@@seamonkeyz The easiest way play HD DVDs on your PC with an HD DVD drive is to buy a lifetime key for AnyDVD HD which is software made by Redfox . You run that program in the background to remove all copy protection and then use KODI media player which is free to play the disc . KODI is by far the best media player to play HD DVDs but it will not play them without using AnyDVD to bypass the disc protection . It will also allow you to rip the HD DVD minus copy protection to a hard drive that you can also watch with KODI . I've been using it to back-up all of my HD DVDs to HDD because some of them have got disc rot and won't play anymore . AnyDVD HD will also allow you to watch copy protected DVDs and Blu-Rays using KODI or even VLC media player or rip them to hard drive as well . They update it all the time and it's been around for a long time . Highly recommended if you're into HD-DVD . They don't sell PowerDVD 7 Ultra anymore , that's the one we all used back in the day for HD DVDs.
I found mine in the closet this morning. Still pristine and all 20 hd dvd's with it. The remote, power supply...etc. All getting thrown out tonight. Makes me sad but honestly, it is what it is..lol
By the way guys you don't need a HD DVD player for you Xbox 360. Your Xbox 360 still plays the DVD. I think Xbox one does it to. I have a Xbox One but I don't really put movies in it. I do know the Xbox One plays Blu-Ray.
I bought one of these when they were on clearance for $20 back in 2009ish. They did not come with a remote. I don't have an Xbox, but it works great on my computer. I used it to rip my HD DVD's to my computer. (I just watch them ripped, but could re-author and burn to Blu-ray if I wanted)
When the format war was on blu ray vs HDDVD I asked a Sony rep I don't want a ps3 but I want a blu ray player with a ethernet socket he said they none of the players apart from the PS3 have ethernet sockets. I said if I buy a blu ray player and it has no ethernet socket is the future of the player limited? he could answer blu ray should of been the next beta max
I still have my Xbox 360 HD DVD player. The nice thing is you can hook it to your PC and makeMKV will work perfectly with the device, in case you have old HD-DVD movies still laying around.
The fact you had to buy an extra disc drive to play these is what killed off hddvd, ps3 having Blu-ray playback on the console is why Blu-ray won in the battle of what’s still around and what died off pretty quick.
The instal disc was never updated since 2006 and still had the same theme as the "blades" era 360 dashboard at launch. I missed seeing that font and button icons on that install disc
You CANNOT use this i''m sure. This was meant for the Blades dashboard which was active years 2005-2008. Thus, You must find another solution or downgrade to an older firmware. In the 2009-2015 firmware, You go to video apps, and HD DVD icon will show up. I've been using XBOX for 10 years.
Along with making an HD-DVD add-on, Microsoft could have also made an Xbox 360 Blu-ray Player add-on which also comes with a High Speed HDMI Cable to connect the Xbox 360 console to an HDTV (only for Xbox 360 Consoles that have an HDMI port).
4:36 The reason your Xbox hasn't got the silver disc tray isn't because of when it was made, but because that's the Xbox 360 Arcade/Core. They came with no hard drive and had a white tray
HD DVD was cancelled from politics between manufacturers. You'd think you'd do a bit of research before making a video on it. It's problem was lack of storage compared to a Blu-ray and Panasonic/LG/Sony being on board for BluRay and primarily Toshiba for HD DVD. Advantage was they could manufacture them in existing dvd factories with little upgrading which would of brought the costs down to the consumer. Much faster load times in the beginning from higher read speeds on the drive and the picture quality is the same. In fact, on some movies I prefer the HD DVD over the BluRay to this day. Big Lebowski is amazing on HD DVD.
Btw only the arcade model didn't have chrome on the disc tray, every other model such as the pro , elite etc. Does since my elite 360 has chrome on it and it also was released in 2009
@@TheComputerNerd but one of my 360s were literally manufactured in like October 2005 and has chrome on the front? Yes I know that Microsoft didn't release the 360 until November of 2005 but I believe the particular pro model I'm talking about is a launch model
Hell I remember years ago paying like $300 bucks for a dvd player ... and think wow the picture looks so clear lol ... Its got a 3d interactive menu screen
Have to admit thow Blu Ray disc just sound cool ... HD dvd just dosent sound right .. apparently the Blu Ray player actually use a blue light on the disc drive that's actually how they came up with the name which is cool I think
Today, 10-20-19, hooked my Xbox 360 HD DVD player up to my laptop, popped in Mystery Men, opened makeMKV, and ripped the movie file. Just thought of it and it worked. I was not a blu ray fan when the format war was raging. Blu ray won because no one liked saying HD DVD. Lol
5:56 I think I know what it’s meaning, it seems like this player was around when the blades dashboard was on the Xbox 360, and it had a eject disk button Ike that, so I assumed that if u install it on the blades dashboard, that will show up on the Home Screen, now the blades dashboard is gone.
@@trutherone1725 not wrong at all. HD dvd did not require any manufacturing equipment replacement. The same machines making dvd could make hd dvd. Where as bluray required replacing all the machines. Had you actually followed the format wars you would know that offering bluray drives on the ps2 and having to pay extra for the hddvd drive on an xbox led everyone to buy a ps2 and what led to the ps2 sales. People flocked to buy a ps2 just because it came with a bluray drive.
HD-DVD was about to do a big announcement at one of the trade shows ( E3 or CES type show) and many people were ready to back it over Blu-Rays. Sony did a back door deal with one of the big film/TV companies and then Sony made their announcement before HD-DVD. Since they wouldnt have this HUGE library of content, the HD-DVD company announced itself as DOA. All of us early adopters were pretty upset .. I still get pissed every time I try to watch an old Blu-ray and my sony ps3 asks me to go online to authenticate the licence again.
I started with the XBox 360 (In the box In the loft now) Then got hold of a Top of the range Player, as the 360 doesn't do 5.1 sound. I play the films all the time, as a lot of the titles are not on any other format. I have 380 of the 420 Pal disc's, the ones missing are Demonstration disc's. You should look around for more films, now You have a player. Thanks for sharing.
I still use mine with my HTPC. :) Unfortunately Windows updates have made it virtually impossible to use past software work with it anymore but you can still use AnyDVD and MPC or PotPlayer.
My guess at the problem 7:14 is that The Xbox UI has changed. This HD DVD player was released when the Xbox had the fist generatio Dashborad. That dashboard had a "open tray" symbol that looks just like the one showed on youre Xbox. With the old UI i guess the old eject button was split in two when this was installed. HD DVD was discontinued when the new UI was launched and therefor they did not bother to make a "easy acess" for it.
I found one a few years ago at a second-hand shop paid $10 for it. original 360's didn't have support to read DVD format so they aftermarket sold the HD-DVD players to fix that issue.
I purchased mine at a Goodwill outlet for maybe $3? Sony won the High definition DVD war because the PlayStation 3 had a built-in Blu-ray player and the Xbox HD DVD had to be purchased separately. Pretty much a no brainer.
Toshiba was the manufacturer and the reason Microsoft went with HDDVD over Blu-ray was because they were already competing with Sony in the video game space so they also wanted to compete with them in the home video space. I think Warner Bros was the final movie studio to finally pick aside (being Blu-ray). For a time HDDVD and blu-ray where neck and neck until the above happened, then HDDVD got canned. That’s at least how I believe it went down but if anybody wants to correct me on anything I stand corrected in advance
Blu-Ray was better simply because they had superior scratch resistance . HD DVD scratched incredibly easily , they were as soft as DVDs and CDs , and the HD DVD drives were very finicky about playing scratched or dirty discs . You couldn't even clean an HD DVD without scratching it and if you tried to resurface one it would never play again .
I remember going into a pawn shop that had tons of HD dvds...... 5 each problem I had no HD DVD player to use them with....probably why they were 5 bucks each.....
Good luck on getting the Japanese Band of Brothers box set or the Jack Ryan box set. They will likely set you back about $150 each. And there is no point buying anything from Warner Bros. Since they cheaped out on manufacturing and made shitty discs that are now starting to fail.
@@kevinragsdale6256 i guess u never owned one if you're asking that question like that? The pictire quality is a lot better than blueray. How do i know? Because i have both. If u also do some research on google or wicki it will tell u the same thing but my eyes are the better judge.
@@redcrimson1028 why didnt it win the race then, or why isn't it still around? Microsoft even had a year lead on sony. If it was superior quality, it should have won.
kevin ragsdale Sony won the battle of formats with Blu-ray same as they did with dvd. The PS3 had a Blu-ray player built into it so many people purchased PS3’s Bc it was the cheaper alternative to buying a $700-$1000 Blu-ray player.
I just learned today that I can use MakeMKV to rip my little HD DVD collection with this 360 drive. (This was already the app I was using to rip my blu-ray collection.) The ripped files are huge, but can then be compressed/converted using Handbrake.
@@bubba842 Just dug mine out and plugged it into my laptop running windows 10 pro 20H2, it auto installed drivers and works fine, shows up as a drive in “this computer” try going to your device manager right clicking on the device click “update drivers” and click “search automatically for drivers”
Which is better, HD DVD or Blu-ray??
Blue ray
HD DVD
Definitely Blu-ray
Dvd
HD DVD didn't come out to compete with Blu-ray 😂😂😂😂 it was the fact PS3 could play DVDs and blu ray straight from the box and Xbox couldn't 😂😂😂😂
When the HD DVD released it was made for the first dashboard “blades” of the 360. That’s why when you had the installation disc inside, it told you to press the weird open tray button (which isn’t in any dashboard after blades) and was identical to the blades version of it’s open tray feature back in 2005-2008 :)
Plus it looked like the blades one.
Oh no I can't watch movies my DVD player got red ring
Lollll
Same
Stick two qtips between the fans in the back then turn it on and wrap it in a towel ... I remember the days
That problem was even bigger then they admitted. Everyone I knew it happened to . Most never sent them bk .
@@scottigertiger6430 yeah happened to me but that was around the time Xbox one came out so I went ahead and bought one
I like the fact that they're double sided discs. HD-DVD on one side & DVD on the other. No need for 2 separate discs. 💿
@Notorious1503 What do you mean 5 extra??? Blu-ray can hold 25GB in one layer vs 15GB in HD-DVD.
Don't you mean 10GB extra?
Is that really true?
@@ElfHostage Yup. Some of the older movies offered both formats on a single disc. The DVD side can play on standard DVD players.📀
@@PSYCHOV3N0M Most Blurays came with an additional disc for bonus content which is absurd.
@@absolutium I've never encountered a Blu-ray movie that came with a bonus disc.
All content has been on one disc for me.
4:25 When the 360 launched in 2005, there was two versions of the console; the Premium and the Core.
The Premium 360 console had a silver tray, wireless controller and a 20GB hard drive. The Core 360 console had a white tray, wired controller and no hard drive (a hard drive could be bought separately for the Core). You have the Core console.
The Core was later replaced with the Arcade 360. They both had the same white tray.
Bob Bob it was 3 you forgot the elite console that was $450
@@ProfessorChaosYT0214 The Elite wasn't available at launch.
Bob Bob oh yeah you’re right the elite came a year later
Bob Bob he has the Arcade because it has HDMi if you look closely at 4:47
@@armeniancrusader301 No. It didn't come with a hard drive. Your options, if you bought a Core and wanted to save your game progress, were either buy a 512mb memory card or a 20gb hard drive. Both were sold separately. Microsoft never released a hard drive smaller than 20GB. The hard drives kept getting bigger. It was up to 250GB when the 360 was eventually discontinued.
7:25 Notice the design of that screen. It's designed the same way as the old Blades Dashboard that was on the Xbox 360 before they were updated to NXE. The button it's talking about, probably existed on the Blades but didn't carry over to future versions of the dashboard
HD DVD was created by Toshiba. The same guys that made many of the OG Xbox DVD Drives.
Actually microsoft make everything themselves only company they palled with is lg as both the tv and series x is using the same AI picture technology and the only console that runs at full 4k on 120hz and lg is the only tv that can support the xbox's full power
@@TrashWoodBand you do know microsoft is one company that makes part for every computer or console going 😂 why u think sony cant get there hands on the most powerful Amd ryzen graphics card from because microsoft are there partners and sony cant even beat the one x with the ps5 😂 kid you know nothing
@@darrenhayes7786 xbox doesn't have ryzen either and both of the current gen consoled use AMD.
@@warriorharj79 ryzen zen 2 is AmDs new card 🤣🤣 it's in the series X
@@darrenhayes7786 I said current gen andocrosoft does not OWN these companies.
thats from the old dashboard. the new updates dont have that
Look under "Movie Apps" if not there download the "hd-dvd for metro" update
Both formats were more or less identical, Blu-ray had the disc space advantage while HD DVD supported slightly higher video bitrates (and the format was region free). Both supported all the same video and audio codecs. Nowadays many HD DVD discs are already suffering from disc rot.
You have no clue what you are talking about. The format was worlds apart. HD DVD could be made on existing machines that made DVD. Blu required all new machinery to make the disks. If microsoft would of included the drive with the xbox 360 they would not of lost. Sony was smart in eating the costs of the bluray drive in the ps3. In fact Toshiba tried to get Microsoft to offer the drives for free and they wouldnt budge.
@@darrelldarrell1447 No duh they were physically different in terms of manufacturing but when it came to video and audio specification they were extremely similar. Not "worlds apart" at all.
@@darrelldarrell1447 "would've" or "would have".
Not "would of".
@@darrelldarrell1447they still would have lost
I still have mine. And 6 HD-DVDs! Lol haven't used it in years but I still have it.
This is kinda nostalgic for me, because I was 6-7 Years Old when the Xbox 360 HD DVD Add-On was first released, it’s been that long.
I bought a stack of HD movies from an auction last year. Selling those were hard lol
Just so you know, it wasnt supposed to come with a remote. The remote was sold separately. I had one when it first came out and mine didnt come with a remote.
mine did come with a remote - I recently dug it out of storage to see if it will still play the handful of HD DVDs I still own
Witch is Better
Like= Blu-Ray
Comment= HD DVD
SeeJay X def
People always put the choice they want to win as the Like option.
I forgot that this even existed!! 😂
Toshiba really tried hard to replace blu-ray
Great video Jacob!👌🔥
They made this format because they didn't want Sony having a share in the format market (Sony owns Blu-Ray, so they get money for every single blu-ray sold, regardless of what company made the movie). Long story short, Toshiba's plan didn't work out.
Wow this really brought back memories 😂 even though I never owned a HD DVD player, I do own a XBOX360, 60GB model.
My friend back in that time thought HD DVD was better than Blu Ray. 😁
He was an True XBOX fan.
He supported anything XBOX.
The reason you weren't seeing that second button is because that software disc was designed for the much older "blades" dashboard on the Xbox 360.
My 360 still has blades, might have to buy a hd dvd just for shits
Foreign Disk in hd DVD player 💯💯🔥🔥
You can play xbox 360 in the hd DVD player
@@ultimatespidybawlz2198 is such a thing possible?
And HD DVD install disc might not be needed, as new dashboard already support HD DVD from the box
I do want to pick up one of these for cheap and collect the HD DVD movies.
HD-DVD actually isn't a bad way to go these days if you can find a player cheap enough. I had someone give me a Toshiba player from 2008(A35 model) and starting buying discs from ebay a few years back. Can usually find some decent movies for literally a few bucks. People dumped the players long ago and just want to get rid of the discs. No visible difference between blu-rays and there are even a few HD versions of movies that were never released on BD as well. The HD-DVD drive for the 360 is going for like 10 bucks now. Picked 1 up for my 360 in my bedroom. Great quality player but the only downside is it will downgrade DTS-HD and TRUE HD audio to core DTS and DD as it lacks the capability to play the lossless stuff. Also if you buy 1 of the Toshiba players make sure to buy 07-08 as the early players lacked audio passthrough for receiver decoding and only were capable of 720p. Have a theater room in my house and people r' always stunned that their watching a dead format on a 12yr old player when I play 1 of these movies.
Of course it exists. Things don't disintegrate when they're discontinued
I had one of these back in the day, the quality was actually slightly better than blu Ray! Same story with the beta max
Your Xbox 360 looks like it’s on life support, just like Sega Genesis with the Sega CD and 32X lol
7:11 old Xbox moment
Late to the party here, but you are right in that the dashboard that the HDDVD drive installation desk was referring to was an older version.
The original dashboard for the XB360 was very different in the early days, and looked a little bit like playing cards splayed over eachother.
Great video Jacob. Btw it was Philips besides Sony who developed the Blu-Ray. Philips also the inventor of the old CC (Compact Cassette), CD and DVD. :-)
Got three of those drives. Two sealed. One used. The drive also works great on a windows with an older version of Powerdvd. Great unboxing video 👍
what version of power DVD? and where can you get it from?
@@seamonkeyz The easiest way play HD DVDs on your PC with an HD DVD drive is to buy a lifetime key for AnyDVD HD which is software made by Redfox . You run that program in the background to remove all copy protection and then use KODI media player which is free to play the disc . KODI is by far the best media player to play HD DVDs but it will not play them without using AnyDVD to bypass the disc protection .
It will also allow you to rip the HD DVD minus copy protection to a hard drive that you can also watch with KODI . I've been using it to back-up all of my HD DVDs to HDD because some of them have got disc rot and won't play anymore .
AnyDVD HD will also allow you to watch copy protected DVDs and Blu-Rays using KODI or even VLC media player or rip them to hard drive as well . They update it all the time and it's been around for a long time . Highly recommended if you're into HD-DVD . They don't sell PowerDVD 7 Ultra anymore , that's the one we all used back in the day for HD DVDs.
Looks like the new system software is compatible with the HD DVD player it adds the HD DVD option to the main menu in the video apps section
I found mine in the closet this morning. Still pristine and all 20 hd dvd's with it. The remote, power supply...etc. All getting thrown out tonight. Makes me sad but honestly, it is what it is..lol
Sell it
I know I’m late
By the way guys you don't need a HD DVD player for you Xbox 360. Your Xbox 360 still plays the DVD. I think Xbox one does it to. I have a Xbox One but I don't really put movies in it. I do know the Xbox One plays Blu-Ray.
I still have a copy of Mall rats on HD DVD and can’t watch it on anything expect that junker.
I bought one of these when they were on clearance for $20 back in 2009ish. They did not come with a remote. I don't have an Xbox, but it works great on my computer. I used it to rip my HD DVD's to my computer. (I just watch them ripped, but could re-author and burn to Blu-ray if I wanted)
I guess for nostalgic purposes.
I had one back in the day, watched Miami Vice over and over and over and over.....
When the format war was on blu ray vs HDDVD I asked a Sony rep I don't want a ps3 but I want a blu ray player with a ethernet socket he said they none of the players apart from the PS3 have ethernet sockets. I said if I buy a blu ray player and it has no ethernet socket is the future of the player limited? he could answer blu ray should of been the next beta max
They also have something called a Super Blu Ray that does both right now. I wanted to purchase one for the 360 when it came out. Thanks for sharing.
I still have my Xbox 360 HD DVD player. The nice thing is you can hook it to your PC and makeMKV will work perfectly with the device, in case you have old HD-DVD movies still laying around.
The fact you had to buy an extra disc drive to play these is what killed off hddvd, ps3 having Blu-ray playback on the console is why Blu-ray won in the battle of what’s still around and what died off pretty quick.
I mean to be fair, the HD DVD came out like 5 months after the 360 did
The launch instructions included on the installation disc were for the old Blades OS.
it would work on the blades dashboard from 2005-2007
My 360 is still on blades
@@alejandrocervantes4523 LMFAO
Original Blades dashboard was the absolute best and most responsive out of all the 360 dashboards.
The instal disc was never updated since 2006 and still had the same theme as the "blades" era 360 dashboard at launch. I missed seeing that font and button icons on that install disc
Miss so much the old 2006 dashboard
Would be fun to build an Xbox 360 Mini using that HD DVD player as the case :]
Will look into that.
I'd like to build a PC using that case lol
You CANNOT use this i''m sure. This was meant for the Blades dashboard which was active years 2005-2008. Thus, You must find another solution or downgrade to an older firmware.
In the 2009-2015 firmware, You go to video apps, and HD DVD icon will show up.
I've been using XBOX for 10 years.
7:21 the button won't appear as you can clearly see this was made to work for the blades Dashboard
They gave you a non-OEM power supply. That's not the official Microsoft power supply.
I own one of those still, looks weird next to my Halo 3 Collectors edition Xbox360.
It would have been funny if when he turned on the Xbox 360 the red ring of death happened
Along with making an HD-DVD add-on, Microsoft could have also made an Xbox 360 Blu-ray Player add-on which also comes with a High Speed HDMI Cable to connect the Xbox 360 console to an HDTV (only for Xbox 360 Consoles that have an HDMI port).
4:36 The reason your Xbox hasn't got the silver disc tray isn't because of when it was made, but because that's the Xbox 360 Arcade/Core. They came with no hard drive and had a white tray
ok but they are famous the blu ray so much that everyone goes to the cinema but for watching new movies.
Thanks for the review, I couldn't figure out how to do that either, lol.
Real cool antique, worked for me thanks!
plot twist: microsoft stole the king kong movie
I believe it was Philips & Microsoft, who backed HDDVD to name two.
The hd dvd before was on old dash.
HD DVD was cancelled from politics between manufacturers.
You'd think you'd do a bit of research before making a video on it.
It's problem was lack of storage compared to a Blu-ray and Panasonic/LG/Sony being on board for BluRay and primarily Toshiba for HD DVD.
Advantage was they could manufacture them in existing dvd factories with little upgrading which would of brought the costs down to the consumer.
Much faster load times in the beginning from higher read speeds on the drive and the picture quality is the same.
In fact, on some movies I prefer the HD DVD over the BluRay to this day.
Big Lebowski is amazing on HD DVD.
Btw only the arcade model didn't have chrome on the disc tray, every other model such as the pro , elite etc. Does since my elite 360 has chrome on it and it also was released in 2009
Yeah I have the arcade model
@@jrob0021 i figured you had that model since I also used to own one also
The Core Xbox 360 model at early launch also didn't have the chrome.
@@TheComputerNerd but one of my 360s were literally manufactured in like October 2005 and has chrome on the front? Yes I know that Microsoft didn't release the 360 until November of 2005 but I believe the particular pro model I'm talking about is a launch model
@@TheComputerNerd oh wait, my mistake. Sorry that I misread your comment.
Wait, so you can only use it if you have an “original” Xbox from 2005 - 2009.
Hell I remember years ago paying like $300 bucks for a dvd player ... and think wow the picture looks so clear lol ... Its got a 3d interactive menu screen
Have to admit thow Blu Ray disc just sound cool ... HD dvd just dosent sound right .. apparently the Blu Ray player actually use a blue light on the disc drive that's actually how they came up with the name which is cool I think
Today, 10-20-19, hooked my Xbox 360 HD DVD player up to my laptop, popped in Mystery Men, opened makeMKV, and ripped the movie file. Just thought of it and it worked. I was not a blu ray fan when the format war was raging. Blu ray won because no one liked saying HD DVD. Lol
I've got a app that actually makes HDVD format on dual layer DVD 9 disks
Phil Dawson can you tell me the app name or link it
5:56 I think I know what it’s meaning, it seems like this player was around when the blades dashboard was on the Xbox 360, and it had a eject disk button Ike that, so I assumed that if u install it on the blades dashboard, that will show up on the Home Screen, now the blades dashboard is gone.
I’d love to take one of these apart and put a tiny gaming console in it
Had microsoft included the hd DVD drive with the console they would beat out bluray.
Darrell Darrell wrong
@@trutherone1725 not wrong at all. HD dvd did not require any manufacturing equipment replacement. The same machines making dvd could make hd dvd. Where as bluray required replacing all the machines. Had you actually followed the format wars you would know that offering bluray drives on the ps2 and having to pay extra for the hddvd drive on an xbox led everyone to buy a ps2 and what led to the ps2 sales. People flocked to buy a ps2 just because it came with a bluray drive.
Darrell Darrell tf u talking about the ps2 never had a blu ray drive u mean the PS3??
@@trutherone1725 ya that waffle looking thing.
Darrell Darrell waffle what tf u on?
HD-DVD was about to do a big announcement at one of the trade shows ( E3 or CES type show) and many people were ready to back it over Blu-Rays. Sony did a back door deal with one of the big film/TV companies and then Sony made their announcement before HD-DVD. Since they wouldnt have this HUGE library of content, the HD-DVD company announced itself as DOA. All of us early adopters were pretty upset .. I still get pissed every time I try to watch an old Blu-ray and my sony ps3 asks me to go online to authenticate the licence again.
You were just like "Where da heck do I go to play an HD DVD?????"
Ikr
It's weird I don't remember this. I had the core, or the arcade 360, but I swear I was watching DVDs without it and still can
I think eBay got hacked, I pressed the checkout button. but it said, “an error occurred please try again later”
Xbox 360 has the RROD. HD-DVDs have disc rot.
I started with the XBox 360 (In the box In the loft now) Then got hold of a Top of the range Player, as the 360 doesn't do 5.1 sound. I play the films all the time, as a lot of the titles are not on any other format. I have 380 of the 420 Pal disc's, the ones missing are Demonstration disc's. You should look around for more films, now You have a player. Thanks for sharing.
I still use mine with my HTPC. :) Unfortunately Windows updates have made it virtually impossible to use past software work with it anymore but you can still use AnyDVD and MPC or PotPlayer.
My guess at the problem 7:14 is that The Xbox UI has changed. This HD DVD player was released when the Xbox had the fist generatio Dashborad. That dashboard had a "open tray" symbol that looks just like the one showed on youre Xbox. With the old UI i guess the old eject button was split in two when this was installed. HD DVD was discontinued when the new UI was launched and therefor they did not bother to make a "easy acess" for it.
I found one a few years ago at a second-hand shop paid $10 for it. original 360's didn't have support to read DVD format so they aftermarket sold the HD-DVD players to fix that issue.
The Xbox 360 can play DVDs. Always been able to
@@siloPIRATE so just not hd?
@@saucyx4 Yup
@@siloPIRATE thanks
Was insane how much these cost back in 2006. Here in the UK think it was something like £220. Never caught on cos Blu Ray was better
So you can control the HD DVD with the XBOX controller? In other words you really don't need the remote from the HD DVD player?
I had one, it was great. I preferred it over bluray
Nice, any particular reason why?
HD DVD was made by Toshiba
I purchased mine at a Goodwill outlet for maybe $3?
Sony won the High definition DVD war because the PlayStation 3 had a built-in Blu-ray player and the Xbox HD DVD had to be purchased separately.
Pretty much a no brainer.
Godzilla is even scarier than King Kong
I can’t find the HD-DVD app even after using the install disc. Can anyone help with the reason why thanks
Toshiba was the manufacturer and the reason Microsoft went with HDDVD over Blu-ray was because they were already competing with Sony in the video game space so they also wanted to compete with them in the home video space.
I think Warner Bros was the final movie studio to finally pick aside (being Blu-ray).
For a time HDDVD and blu-ray where neck and neck until the above happened, then HDDVD got canned.
That’s at least how I believe it went down but if anybody wants to correct me on anything I stand corrected in advance
Blu-Ray was better simply because they had superior scratch resistance . HD DVD scratched incredibly easily , they were as soft as DVDs and CDs , and the HD DVD drives were very finicky about playing scratched or dirty discs . You couldn't even clean an HD DVD without scratching it and if you tried to resurface one it would never play again .
The button on the dashboard was referring to an older Xbox 360 dashboard version. It didn't always look like the newer modern dash you have now.
Yeah
@@jrob0021 hd dvd was made by toshibia it was made in 2006 before blu ray came out it was discontinued in 2008 and blu ray won
If you haven't got the red ring of death yet, put this hd player on top of the 360's vents and wait.🤣😂😅😂
Toshiba designed the HD-DVD.
Personally I never use Blu-ray
I remember going into a pawn shop that had tons of HD dvds...... 5 each problem I had no HD DVD player to use them with....probably why they were 5 bucks each.....
You need to use the HD DVD player with the blades dashboard.
I really want to get this now. Not sure if it would work with the 2010 model that I have, though.
At least collecting a complete HD-DVD set is fairly easy.
Good luck on getting the Japanese Band of Brothers box set or the Jack Ryan box set. They will likely set you back about $150 each. And there is no point buying anything from Warner Bros. Since they cheaped out on manufacturing and made shitty discs that are now starting to fail.
Cool, I was planning on getting one of these while it was on sale for around £20 ($25 USD) brand new, today these sell for around £5 ($6 USD).
HD DVD player was created by Toshiba
The HD DVD was far superior in quality over blueray discs but we saw it that turned out
How was it superior?
@@kevinragsdale6256 i guess u never owned one if you're asking that question like that? The pictire quality is a lot better than blueray. How do i know? Because i have both. If u also do some research on google or wicki it will tell u the same thing but my eyes are the better judge.
@@redcrimson1028 why didnt it win the race then, or why isn't it still around? Microsoft even had a year lead on sony. If it was superior quality, it should have won.
kevin ragsdale Sony won the battle of formats with Blu-ray same as they did with dvd. The PS3 had a Blu-ray player built into it so many people purchased PS3’s Bc it was the cheaper alternative to buying a $700-$1000 Blu-ray player.
@@PandorasTmrw yeah...... I knew that, I lived through all those generations.
HD-DVD is almost the same thing except Blu-ray can store more data. Always read the manual that's why u didn't know how to start it up?
Still exist in 2019 cuz you bought it.🤣🤣 you can plug thoes into computers too windows 10 has the drivers built in.
I just learned today that I can use MakeMKV to rip my little HD DVD collection with this 360 drive. (This was already the app I was using to rip my blu-ray collection.) The ripped files are huge, but can then be compressed/converted using Handbrake.
Windows 10 does not have the drivers built in. I tried.
@@bubba842 Just dug mine out and plugged it into my laptop running windows 10 pro 20H2, it auto installed drivers and works fine, shows up as a drive in “this computer” try going to your device manager right clicking on the device click “update drivers” and click “search automatically for drivers”
The old “ should’ve came with the console in the first place, but instead we will do it standalone to get more money”……smh
Does the HD DVD Player add-on release a lot of heat from those vents while playing a movie?