Will Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on work on iMac?
As the topic says i am wondering if the Xbox HD-DVD drive will work on my 20"iMac that runs on Bootcamp/XP? I saw a clip on Youtube that somebody used the HD-DVD player on a MacBook Pro. Therefore i was thinking that it shouldn't be a problem to run it on an iMac...?
If anybody has any knowledge or hands-on experience on this, i would appreciate it very much!
Most of my concern is the hdcp, will my ATI X1600 256MB card play it, or actually support it?
Thanks!!
I'm answering my own question by saying, Yes, it can be done! After some nervwrecking hours i got it working and HD-DVD looks absolutely faboulous on the iMac's screen!!! Too bad i "only" have the 20" iMac:)
So, the process was like this:
I started looking for drivers to the Xbox HD-DVD player and it is easy to find all kinds of information on the Internet about this. Windows XP found my device and found the drivers too, so there's no need to install any drivers for it. Now the HD-DVD drive will show up as a CD Drive in My Computer. This was a bit confusing for me as i thought it hadn't properly installed the drivers, but it has/had.
I am not possible though to read the files from the drive by double clicking the icon, so that sort of distracted me too, but seems to be completely "normal".
There are two softwares at the moment that can play HD-DVD and they are WinDVD 8 and Cyberlinks PowerDVD Ultra. I first started with the WinDVD 8 since thay have a 14 day free trial, and it is some 40 bucks cheaper than the PowerDVD. I installed the WinDVD normally and launched the player. It straight away gave me error messages and wouldn't want to play, although i heard a small buzz from the HD-DVD player. I tried to reinstall the WinDVD but same thing happened.
After some time with trying to find a solution and bunch of Googling i went to Cyberlink's homepage. Unfortunately Cyberlink doesn't have (or at least i didn't find) a trial version of the PowerDVD Ultra, so if you want it, you'll just have to buy it. But they have a small downloadable program called HD Advisor that checks your computer's system to see if it is HD fit. I run that on my and it said that my graphics-card driver needed to be updated and i didn't have a software to playback the HD-movies. That was strange i though, as i still had the WinDVD running...I tried to restart and run the HD advisor one more time and same thing came up.
I bought the PowerDVD Ultra (100 bucks). It takes some time for the verification if you pay by credit-card, so please be patient here, it took me almost 24 hour till i got the link to download the program....I installed the PowerDVD, launched it and....Nada! An error message said my graphics driver needed to be updated to play the movie. Ok, should be a piece of cake i thought! Boy, was i wrong!
I have the ATI Radeon X1600 256MB, and according to ATI you need to uninstall any earlier software before installing the new one, and so i did. This is where it got really frustrating for me. See, after i uninstalled the drivers for the ATI, it didn't find anymore the VGA drivers, and without them i wasn't able to install the new drivers!!!
So here i am, stuck with 800x600 pixel, and neither my computer nor my software wants to change that! This is where i would recommend people to be careful, and maybe make somekind of backup. So, here goes Google again and reading in different forums, until i finally found in a troubleshooting section, where thay said that a program called ATI Catalyst Control Center needs to be installed. I downloaded it, installed it, restarted my computer and BOOM! It worked! Wonderful!!
It's not the latest driver, but still rather new (16.12.2006), and i'm not even sure if i have done it right, but everything is working like it should, the screen looks wonderful, after coming out from hours of 800x600 ****!:)
Sorry for making this post so terribly long, but i don't think i could have made it shorter without leaving out some important points. Now, if anybody has some questions or problems, just feel free to ask me and i'll try to answer them best way i can.
Regards,
CC
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Xbox says the mechanism for accessing music on iPod Touch and iPhone is different than that of iPod.
I resent the signs that I see in stores that say iPod=iPhone. My brand new Kenwood deck did the same thing but I had to switch to a data 500 cable and use it as an external disc changer to get it to work. It uses the different folders in my iPhone as discs in the deck.
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Help greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.For the 2009 and 2010 27" iMacs there is the Kanex XD http://www.kanexlive.com/xd but it is not compatible with ThunderBolt iMacs as Kanex states in their Product FAQs.
2011 ThunderBolt iMac only accept other ThunderBolt Macs as source.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Thunderbolt/10.6/en/30822.html
The Intensity Extreme http://www.blackmagic-design.com/uk/products/intensity/ might be what you need once it is released.
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