Is the xbox HD DVD player region free?

Dman001

Or is it region locked

Dont be at yourself

Almost certainly locked. Europe and Africa share the same region, and Japan and America do likewise. I think.

bennyx_o

Is Japan not Region 2 like Europe?

Ciaran500

All HD-DVDs are region free. Theres no region coding in them.

tuxy

Yes Japan is region 2 just like Europe.And Africa is a different region from Europe.

chrislad

I've heard that the region is set by your Xbox, not the HD DVD drive. At the moment, all HD DVDs are region free anyway.

kensutz

Dman001 wrote:

Or is it region locked

Check here

Dont be at yourself

Ah, HD-DVD is region free? I was thinking of blu-ray (which I'm pretty sure puts Africa and Europe in the same region this time)

mloc123

Ciaran500 wrote:

All HD-DVDs are region free. Theres no region coding in them.

Seconded. Whats the retail on hd dvds at the moment? still €30ish?

chrislad

HMV are charging closer to 40. Not sure what the online prices are as I've not checked really, but from memory, they seem to be about 20 quid sterling which is about 30

KTRIC

I was going to buy one of these from Smyths at the weekend but decided against it in the end.

Is there anywhere online that I could pick one up for less than the retail of €199 here and maybe cheap movies aswell ?

formatman

has anyone tried for eg. a US HD DVD from playusa , listed as region 1 only on there site on the XboX HD DVD ...does it work?

I know it doesn't work with regular DVD's but the studios are starting to implement region coding on HD DVD's now , is its RPC2 or similiar then it will check to see what region code the player is sayign it is

chrislad

I don't think so, at least not for the moment. This was released 2 months ago and last week was the first time I saw it. I went to get it today and it was gone, but luckily Smyths had one left.

As for the discs, www.avforums.com has a good trading site for second hand ones.

8T8

Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive:

HD-DVD - region free = yes

Regular DVD - region free = no

I have tested US HD-DVD's and they do play fine without any issues, got them from AxelMusic - slow delivery though.

Play has more titles in as well if you click on each of the genre sections.

For the moment all HD-DVD's are region free that may change with future titles though but for now no limitations are present.

dave oc

Prices online are around €20 including delivery. Try amazon.com (not the uk one), play.com (usa), dvdworldusa.com. They are the cheapest and have a much greater selection as they stock all hd dvds that have been released in the states.

I have used DVDworldusa and amazon.com for buying US titles and they work fine. I dont think hd dvd will have region encoding for some time.

kencleary

Anyone know anywhere in Dublin where I can still get a HD-DVD drive? Some bastid in game nabbed the last one

koneko

Try a few Smyths stores, that's where I got mine and have seen them there a few times.

dave oc

Try Peats on Parnell street. Seen a few in there before crimbo.....

kencleary

None in Peats or any of the Smyths I rang - anyone got any other suggestions?

dave oc

Im gonna state the fairly obvious one's but try Game, Gamestop, Xtra Vision, HMV, maybe Argos though im not sure if they sell them.

kencleary

Tried all those i'm afraid - well all city centre ones anyway and no luck.

I'd appreciate if someone did come across some stock anyplace they'd drop a post here. Other than that looks like i'm waiting for the second batch!

Lord Spence

I was shocked to have gotten one on christmas morning from my girlfriend i heard they were even harder then the wii to get (which she also got me for christmas bless her cotton socks )

I asked how the hell she got one and she said she rang every shop in limerick and Ennis and she finally got one in Gamestop in Ennis. If your thinking of getting one then I would do it now not later because at the moment it comes with a free full size remote and a copy of king kong on HD DVD.

kaisersose77

off topic....

looks sony made yet another bad decision if this is true

http://www.sgknox.com/2007/01/11/no-porn-on-blu-ray/


i remember one of our resident sony fanboys here on boards was giving this as a reason why blu-ray was going to win the format war ( as the porn industry had choosen blu-ray).

chrislad

Quality is great on the DVD. Only have King Kong and Superman Returns, but wow! Can't wait for Serenity and Batman Begins to arrive this week.

(yay for HD Porn too. Hopefully, this will push HD DVD further as that's the format I'm backing)

rip2roar

You can get the hd-dvds for €20 on play.com

PixelTrawler

I had the HD-DVD drive for a day but I had to return it as after an hour of use the motor developed a serious whine. Load enough to be heard over the movie and impossible to live with.

When I took it back they had no more in stock so I got a refund. Mind you the picture quality was great although I only had the included king kong to try.

honkytonk52

i put a backup dvd into it and it worked no problem

BArra

would bringing one of these back from america be any use?

i see i could play hd dvd's, but would it be locked to us region standard dvd films?

whats the playback like for xvid/divx encoded "backups"

cheers

monkeyfudge

One odd thing I've noticed about the HD-DVD drive is that it shows up as having 196MB of space on it under the storage options on the Dashboard.