Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #837 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Microsoft
• Released on: 2006-12-01
• Platform: Xbox 360

Computeractive
just as good - if not better than - the £1,000 dedicated Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray player

Manufacturer's Description
The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player offers Xbox 360 owners the most affordable way to jump into the next generation of DVD technology and experience HD DVD when they are ready. Just add Xbox 360 HD DVD Player to Xbox 360 for the ultimate home-theatre experience with more clarity and detail than high-definition TV (HDTV) content via broadcast, cable or satellite.

Customer Reviews

HD-DVD no more
As the Blue-ray format has won the HD war HD-DVDs are soon to be discontinued. You could still buy this for the back catalog of films but it will not be an ideal investment....

discontinued why buy.
the hd dvd drive has been discontinued. microsoft are looking into making a blu-ray drive so if you want a hd movie drive wait until that is released rather than buying this.

Have I bought a Betamax??
Got the HD player for Christmas and I am really delighted with the quality of picture/sound that it gives out. For the price you really cannot beat it, the player also upscales normal DVD's so all my DVD's HD or not look great!
I also took adavantage of the 5 free HD DVD's from Microsoft which is superb, 5 free DVD's for nothing so that made the whole deal even better.

The only dark cloud on the Horizon is that Toshiba are no longer going to support this format, which means that the Xbox 360 is shortly going to be the only way that you can view HD DVD's. How many movie companies will produce HD films on this basis?? I doubt very few if any. It seems that Blue Ray is going to win out.

The only way that I can see this format being saved is if the coming Xbox 360 Ultimate has the HD player bulit in (as rumoured) and there are massive sales resulting in a demand for the HD format and other HD players.
Unfortunately I think it is unlikely. So in short its a great player but you may have nothing new to play on it before long!!