Cheapest HD-DVD software?

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So, seeing the Xbox HD DVD drives are selling for $40 with a couple movies.

And seeing the going price for decent HD DVD movies on Amazon is $5 to $10

I'm curious what it would cost me to be able to play those on my HTPC?

Edit: I do have CoreAVC, which might be able to play with Media Player Home Cinema?
 
PowerDVD 7 will play HD DVD's. They disabled support in version 8, which I use for Blu-Rays. Also for some reason it crashes for me, so I use AnyDVD HD to remove the encryption and it works fine.

Supposedly WinDVD plays HD DVD's, but I've never gotten the trial version to work.
 
awesome

sounds like I might just be better off buying the movies on blu ray
 
PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra v.3319a is the best for HD DVD playback.
 
I use Power DVD Ultra (the one that came with the multi-format LG one).

It forces Vista/Windows 7 to return back to the basic look, but other than that it works well.
 
Skip the HD-DVD drive and grab a retail LG BR/HD-DVD Drive with PowerDVD and you'll be set. Blue Ray support and HD support for just a few dollars more then your HD-DVD drive + Software
 
j3ff86 said:
PowerDVD 7 will play HD DVD's. They disabled support in version 8, which I use for Blu-Rays. Also for some reason it crashes for me, so I use AnyDVD HD to remove the encryption and it works fine.

Supposedly WinDVD plays HD DVD's, but I've never gotten the trial version to work.
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Yes, I know the forum rolled back a bit and lost some stuff but I'm responding anyway... :p

WinDVD 9 Plus does play HD-DVDs and Blu-ray content, but not the trial version. Yeah, I know, it's back-asswards but, ever since Corel bought Intervideo I gotta admit their products suck big time nowadays. Kinda stupid to offer a trial of software that you can't even technically try out for the primary reason people would be buying that particular version (as WinDVD 9 doesn't do HD-DVD/Blu-ray, only WinDVD 9 Plus does).

It would be like going to take a test drive of a car and they basically sit you in front of a PC that's inside a cardboard box running GTA or something... not quite what you had in mind and useless for the intended purpose. :)

I had AnyDVD HD installed the other day for testing and was playing back HD-DVD content off a Blu-ray disc (.m2ts files) direct into MPCHC with Windows 7 without issues. No hardware acceleration but, on a Q6600 that didn't matter much, it worked. As for HD-DVD, could never get the damned .evo crap to play...

/me hates proprietary BS formats... in some respects that played into the death of the format... BLAH
 
Joe Average said:
I had AnyDVD HD installed the other day for testing and was playing back HD-DVD content off a Blu-ray disc (.m2ts files) direct into MPCHC with Windows 7 without issues. No hardware acceleration but, on a Q6600 that didn't matter much, it worked. As for HD-DVD, could never get the damned .evo crap to play...

/me hates proprietary BS formats... in some respects that played into the death of the format... BLAH
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Apart from the container, Blu-rays and HD DVD are extremely similar. If you can get hardware acceleration for Blu-ray content, you can get hardware acceleration for HD DVD content.
 
I never knew opening a HD DVD in PowerDVD 7.3 was that hard.. Blu-ray is 10x more picky than HD DVD ever was/is.
 
Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre is great.
Power DVD 7.3319a is great as well.

why get a dead format? Probably because it's dirt cheap to buy these discs since noone wants them. Same quality as blu-ray, hd content, and you can play most on regular DVD players as well with the regular DVD side of the disc.
 
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