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Yes. HD DVD players have been designed to be backwards compatible with regular DVDs so your existing collection is not obsolete. In addition, HD DVD equipment will allow upscaling of a DVD image up to a resolution 1080i/1080p for maximum visual quality.

Why, play HD-DVD movies, of course . The Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player is a software-based solution, meaning all of the decoding and other tasks are all performed on the 360’s triple-core processor. This has its advantages and disadvantages. It’s easy to update the software over Xbox Live if needed as compared to a hardware solution and it should be fairly flexible.

Everything up to 1080p, depending on various factors. If you’re using the VGA connection you’ll get up to 1080p on everything from games to standard DVDs to HD-DVDs. If you’re using component you’ll get up to 1080p on games, but only up to 1080i on HD-DVD movies and only up to 480p on standard definition DVDs.

For HD-DVD movies, yes as are all HD-DVD players. For standard DVDs, no. A lot of people were hoping the HD-DVD drive might provide a loophole to watch out-of-region standard definition movies on the Xbox 360. However, the Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player assumes the region of the console itself when it comes to standard DVDs.

Yes! Xbox 360 can play DVDs and is a progressive scan DVD player so DVDs will look as good, plus up-scaling to High Definition may be possible but has not been confirmed. The remote control is not required but this allows access to regular DVD controls plus Media Center features for the built in Media Center Extender.

No. To ensure playback you?ll need a dedicated HD DVD player, XBox360 with add-on HD DVD drive or a HD-Rom drive in your PC.

AsianScreens does not guarantee playback of DVD titles we ship on all brands/models of DVD players. We recommend, however, that they be viewed using DVD players that meet both of the following criteria:

To play DVDs in Windows Media Player (version 9, 10 or 11) you need a MPEG-2 decoder that is capable of decoding DVD video and is also compatible with WMP. The K-Lite Codec Pack contains a compatible decoder. Some examples of compatible decoders are: Cyberlink, DScaler5, InterVideo, MainConcept and nVidia PureVideo. There are two types of MPEG video, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. The most common one of these two that is used in .mpg/.mpeg files is MPEG-1.

No. HD DVDs are not compatible with Blu-ray machines. Playback of HD DVD material is limited to equipment bearing the HD DVD logo.

No. We did not implement the ability to remotely play back a DVD from a MCE to an XBox 360 Extender so it did not make sense to make My DVDs available. I certainly understand how cool it would be if you could put your MCE and full loaded DVD changer in a closest and use XBox 360's to watch your DVD collection from any room wirelessly but this is something that's going to have to wait until a future release." - Matt Goyer - MCE Program Manager

No. Blu-ray discs are not compatible with HD DVD machines. Playback of Blu-ray material is limited to equipment bearing the Blu-ray logo.

You will need to purchase the Xbox DVD playback kit for your Xbox to play DVDs (The Xbox will only play DVDs in 480i resolution). If you are connecting your Xbox to a VCR then you are experiencing a copy protection feature called Macro vision. The only way to resolve this problem is to connect your Xbox directly to your Television when watching DVD movies.

DVDs are categorized into 8 regions dependent upon geographic location with the last two regions reserved for special applications. Onkyo DVD players sold in the United States can only play back region 1 DVDs or ??all region?? DVDs that are not region specific. The following list is a breakdown by region. Region 1 United States, Canada and the U.S.

In short, no. The only way you will be able to play DVDs from the UK, which is Region 2, is if your DVD player allows you to play all regions. There are some DVD players that allow you to cheat, and play all regions. Sometimes computer DVD players will play all regions. But, unless you know specifically that your DVD player will play all regions, you are, unfortunately, out of luck.

The new DVDs will be compatible with the vast majority of existing consumer electronics DVD players worldwide. This process requires discussion and testing in addition to the development of a new video specification from the DVD Forum. For example, a study had to be undertaken to confirm the compatibility with existing DVD players. It also takes time to complete physical disc specifications for the new recordable DVD media.

It has been tested on ALL Hitachi drives and ALL Samsung drives. If you have an Hitachi drive you should use the Hitachi Sata Adapter. If you do not use this you may get disc errors / boot errors. If you do not have this adapter and you have an Hitachi drive ask your stockist to supply you with one.

Yes,they will work worldwide.We only sell music DVDs and such DVDs are region free and run worldwide.