hardmac.com— Quite amazingly, the player is natively recognized by the Mac. It goes even beyond, once a DVD media inserted, DVD player is automatically launched and the movie displayed
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by 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.
Your 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.
and here we are a year and a half later, and they still haven't.. the mac home-brew community is bulls**t compared to the Windows and Linux communities.
millixawNov 16, 2006
So basically someone needs to port that 4.7MB program to Mac and they'll be all set.
cooldude127Nov 16, 2006
millixaw:4.7 million lines, not characters. It obviously exceeds 4.7 MB
rspeedNov 17, 2006
@ jonnyeh"Maybe with Tiger"Wrong big cat. :3
tinfoil209Nov 17, 2006
I hope the software for the next NASA mission is written in Visual Basic...
theriaaNov 17, 2006
he just feels insecure.
badtzNov 17, 2006
If NASA used microsoft anything ......... :X
diggrumoruserDec 4, 2006
by 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.
drewgarenDec 9, 2006
Your 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.
uxpxJan 17, 2007
I'm not a developer and you sound like an idiot.
therightcliqueMay 23, 2008
and here we are a year and a half later, and they still haven't.. the mac home-brew community is bulls**t compared to the Windows and Linux communities.
therightcliqueMay 23, 2008
psst. all devices need drivers in every system to run. just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.