The Xbox has a DVD drive, but the drive will not be able to play DVD movies without the "Xbox DVD Movie Playback kit".

Not normally, no. The first DVD kit you use with your Xbox will lock it to the region of the DVD kit. So if you put a Region 1 kit into your Xbox, it will be permanently locked to only Region 1 DVDs. There is a product called Region X that will supposedly allow your Xbox to play movies from any region. Currently the product seems only to be available for Region 2 Xboxes. Information about the product is available here: http://special.reserve.co.uk/listings/extrainfo.

Yes and you'll have full menu support too. Just rip the DVD movie to your hard drive using DVD Decryptor, then ftp the ISO file to your f:\video or g:\video directory on your Xbox. Once copied over, just play it with XBMC. Or just use the dvd2xbox application on your Xbox and make sure you're ripping in ISO mode. "ISO mode" is for movies and "normal mode" is for games.

Yes, if your computer has the right stuff. The computer operating system or playback software must support regional codes and be licensed to descramble copy-protected movies. If the computer has TV video out, it must support Macrovision in order to play copy-protected movies. You may also need software that can read the MicroUDF file system format used by DVDs.

You need to purchase the DVD remote kit. Follow the instructions that come with the kit. NOTE: The first remote kit you use with your Xbox will lock it to the region of the remote kit. If you put a Region 1 DVD kit in your Xbox, it will be permanently locked to Region 1 for DVD movies.

application. If your notebook already has these installed, just install the NWDVDPR and you are ready to have a decoder and player application, and is listed below, PORT will provide you with a free copy of Mediamatics DVD Express software decoder and player. See Mediamatics DVD Express minimum requirements below.

No. At this time DVD movies are region specific, which means a movie purchased in Europe is not compatible with a North American DVD player, and vice-versa.

VLC Media Player is the most versatile player we've found for playing the wide variety of movies found in the Archive. And, it's free! We also recommend MPlayer. MPEG2 (DVD) freeware VLC, shareware player from http://www.elecard.com, or for-pay quicktime6 plugin: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/mpeg2playback/ ; MPEG2 (DVD) freeware VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/ ) the for-pay quicktime6 add-on (see http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/mpeg2playback/ ).

Use a freeware flash player available from here http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated

VCD: Unfortunately, no. Although it is possible to get VCD addons for Playstation (not Playstation 2), Sega Saturn, and Dreamcast, do not expect to be able to play a VCD on your game system even if it is equipped to play DVDs. DVD-R: DVD-Rs may work in your game system, but it might not work properly. For example, I tested some discs in my own PS2 and there were problems with the menu that made it almost impossible to select the desired episode.

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