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- i64X, on 10/12/2007, -57/+105>> give it some time, someone in the mac community will come up with a driver for this.
You can write drivers in Photoshop now? - TheThirdWheel, on 10/12/2007, -9/+39i64X
I know you'll get dugg down, but I lol'd. - VolsFan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31Sure you could. If a Mac can play H.264 at 1080p when it's stored on the hard drive, it can play the same video codec at the same resolution from an HD-DVD.
- drgruney, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29@Ninjab3ar
The problem isn't drivers. The device is picked up in OSX.... the problem is there is no HD-DVD plaback software for the Mac. - smeager, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Yes there is. OS X's DVD Player 4.6.1 supports local HD-DVD folders (that is authorized by DVD Studio Pro 4) meaning it can play local HD-DVD stuff. So I am sure with a minor software update it will be able to support (physical, as in the disc version) HD-DVD playback.
Here's info on it:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/dvdplayer46.html - ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29Uh...your keyboard is bigger than both...what is your point?
- SLP1111, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27Awesome! Oh wait, this can't play HD DVDs on the Mac- for now all this is is an external dvd player.
- awm4, on 10/12/2007, -27/+46Is anything not compatible with the Mac?
- smilespray, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20It's been long established that Slashdot and Digg have different dupe rules. Uses decide rule what goes on the front page, and that's that.
I see dupes all the time, and as annoying they may be, some people don't mind them since they might not have caught the story first time around. - shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19I think it was something like 2 million lines of code for the xbox 360
- eridius, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Actually if you re-read the description is saying DVD media, not HD-DVD. So it is accurate, just slightly misleading if you read the title alone.
- Spoonicus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12you know.. im sick of people digging to sites that require me to then go to another URL to get the full story NO DIGG
- skoles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Keep an eye on versiontracker.com for an HD-DVD player for Macs.
- smilespray, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Dude, you're _so_ clueless.
- KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Instead of commenting that it is a dupe, just mark it as such and bury it.
- mccarron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10The problem with the Mac Side is not drivers, but it's the ability to play HD-DVD movies, the drive works on the Mac without a driver at all. Windows needed a driver to even read from the drive, and also software to play the movies. There isn't any HD-DVD playback software written for the Mac yet, mostly because there has been no drive up until now.
- jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6For the record, it's 4.7 million lines of code for the 360 HD-DVD software.
BTW, my core 2 duo imac plays 180p movie trailers just fine, it could easily support HD DVD - kethraal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"There isn't any HD-DVD playback software written for the Mac yet"
Ding ding ding... wrong. DVD Player (the bundled Apple app) actually supports HD-DVD playback -- just not from disk. Right now, it's used to play back HD-DVD from local folders (so that you can watch the HD-DVD output of DVD Studio Pro.)
There is HD-DVD software, and it's out and working -- it just needs to be enabled to play content from a physical disk. - neildiamond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Actually, I'm not surprised. Didn't MS do XBox360 demos on Macs prior to the relase of the new XBox? Perhaps in the process they submitted a driver to Apple.
- xistboi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Thats the same story that I posted on my blog and got Dugg on Monday.
http://digg.com/mods/Hacking_the_XBOX_360_s_HD_DVD_for_the_PC - cooldude127, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3millixaw:
4.7 million lines, not characters. It obviously exceeds 4.7 MB - FudgeNuggets, on 11/01/2007, -0/+3Sorry guys, I'll post this just as I did in the other post on this topic. I've got the 360 HD-DVD drive, I've got a Mac and I've got a PC. The HD-DVD drive was not recognized at all in OSX Tiger, it was recognized but the drivers would not work in XP MCE and XP PRO.
I have yet to see anybody anywhere claim to have this working other than that article on uneasysilence and until I do and somebody tells me what I've done wrong for it not to work on 3 different OSes and 2 different machines, then I'll continue to bury for inaccuracy. - jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Is it just a simple flag that needs to be enabled to read from a disc? Or is it missing the AACS encryption decoding?
- MacBastard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm not too surprised since the SDK for the 360 was a PowerMac G5 with the development environment pre-installed.
The Bastard - Vigile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, but mine shows you don't need the hacked drivers at all.
- rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ jonnyeh
"Maybe with Tiger"
Wrong big cat. :3 - diggrumoruser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1by FudgeNuggets... Sorry guys...
WRONG!!! The xbox 360 hd-dvd drive works 100% in Mac 10.4
Plug it in, and check out system profiler. Under USB it recognises the drive and lists all the details. Put a dvd into the drive and DVD player launches perfectly and asks you first to select the region of the drive.
HD-DVD discs are not recognised and the initialise drive window opens to say it cant read the format do you want to format or eject.....
DVD player in Leopard 10.5 will support HD-DVD & BluRay discs. And I'm sure it wont be long before VLC add support. - jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It probably just needs to support HD DVD encryption (AACS). Maybe with Tiger?
- TinFoil209, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope the software for the next NASA mission is written in Visual Basic...
- therightclique, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1and here we are a year and a half later, and they still haven't.. the mac home-brew community is ***** compared to the Windows and Linux communities.
- badtz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If NASA used microsoft anything ......... :X
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, they did the demos on G5 architecture, prior to Intel Macs.
- therightclique, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1psst. all devices need drivers in every system to run. just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
- theRIAA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1he just feels insecure.
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yeah, and so stereotypically Microsoft to make a product that plays on non-MS systems.
Oh, wait. Holy *****. - drewgaren, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Your all correct. Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive does show up on a Mac, the wonderful thing is Apple's DVD Player will not play it. So what's the solution. You can play an HD DVD in DVD Studio Pro and there are third party software that does support HD DVD on a Mac as stated above it is a matter of code. Simple enough to fix lucky HD Drives are supported on macs. the easiest way however is if you have an intel mac install crossover on in and install WinDVD or POwerDVD something with HD DVD support via CrossOver and use it throught there or you can just wait two months for leopard and it's native support. Next generation MacBook Pro's will also be shipping with blue ray and hd dvd drives. - I'm a developer i know.
- UxPx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'm not a developer and you sound like an idiot.
- JerodSlay, on 10/12/2007, -10/+9If you're going to wait for everything to be miniaturized, you'll be waiting a while. Don't be mad microsoft is rocking the HD world with apple all left out.
- nitewing98, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1>> i64X wrote:
>> You can write drivers in Photoshop now?
No, but you can't write them in Visual Basic, either. However, we can write them in XCode.
At least Mac developers don't have to shell out to buy Visual Studio. - mangi86, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Since the 360 has a power pc architecture, does this only work on the old power pc macs, or does it work on the intel macs as well?
- smilespray, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3That will not work for so many reasons, including encryption and codec issues.
Time to google and/or wiki a bit before posting, buddy. - popeye9000, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6Clueless, in what way?
This has been posted on just about every gizmo board and blog this week. Here is one of many posts from the AVS forum folks.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=8880202&&#post8880202 - Vigile, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4http://www.digg.com/hardware/Xbox_360_HD_DVD_Players_works_on_PC_with_NO_DRIVERS
This one shows it working on XP, playing HD-DVDs with NO DRIVERS as the title suggests - millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1So basically someone needs to port that 4.7MB program to Mac and they'll be all set.
- mikewhalley, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5ahhell - who says he's using it on his desk with a wired keyboard? He may have meant next to his media center Mac Mini, in which case it would be quite an ugly solution.
- zodieman, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Anyone try the obvious?: VLC Player
- popeye9000, on 10/12/2007, -16/+5This external player already plays HD DVD discs on both Windows XP and Vista so working on a Mac will just be a matter of days until the drivers / codecs are available.
- RationalAntaxia, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1This has been known for a few days now. Don't resubmit stories!!!
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