Xbox HD DVD Player

I'm thinking about buying the Xbox HD DVD Player. I want to connect this with my Macbook and than over my DVI Hdmi cable to my projector. Is the Macbook graphics card a HDCP card?
Do you think the qualti will be good or it get lost in the connection?
P.S: I'm sorry for my bad englisch 0:-) Please correct it

On the Xbox issue take a look at these threads, applies to the HD DVD versions and does not work so it seems
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3750793&#3750793
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3522704&#3522704
As to (2) I think Jerry answsered in FCP and as to (3) you can burn them with menus but nothing seems to work with them yet really Bottom line is DVD SP 4 is not really HD ready for general/reliable use (i.e., clients unless they play back on a Mac)

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