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I'm using my HD-DVD drive from my XBox 360 to watch movies on my iMac when booting into Windows. I use Cyberlink's PowerDVD (only player I know that supports Blu-Ray and HDDVD)
It works fine, except for 2 things...
1.) When I was running Windows Vista Ultimate, the movie Beowulf would cause the system to crash when I would play the movie (the menu would play perfectly, but once I chose to play the movie, I get a blue screen with driver problems with my video driver)
2.) Since I couldn't run the movie with Windows Vista, I installed Windows XP Pro... the movie plays perfectly now (video resolution asks you to switch to 1920x1080, from 1920x1200. BUT!!! I cannot have my HD-DVD drive plugged into the USB port when starting the iMAC because the system gets stuck on the gray screen. If I remove the USB connection and turn on the iMac, it boots up fine.
So does anyone know any fixes or workarounds between these 2 issues?
P.S. HD movies look AWESOME on this 24" iMac.

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