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bucko

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New DVD Drive Found in Xbox 360: Philips VAD6037/21
« Reply #60 on: June 28, 2006, 02:03:00 PM »
Hope they start producing that liteon drive they said they were gonna make soon. Liteon are the best!
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feflicker

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New DVD Drive Found in Xbox 360: Philips VAD6037/21
« Reply #61 on: June 28, 2006, 02:08:00 PM »
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I don't give a shit if it's got standoffs or a 360 core tray plate on it...

I want details on 360s coming with Philips drives, not a fucking photo that could or may have been
doctored...


Looks like a 360 drive to me... Doctoring a photo is possible, but that LOOKS legit to me. I guess well find out in the coming weeks if it is new, or something from a dev kit, etc....

This post has been edited by feflicker: Jun 28 2006, 09:11 PM
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cross_stix

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New DVD Drive Found in Xbox 360: Philips VAD6037/21
« Reply #62 on: June 28, 2006, 02:18:00 PM »
From thread New Philips Vad6037 Drive?

QUOTE(cross_stix @ Jun 28 2006, 03:40 PM) *
Holy crap I was right this does seem to be a 360 drive.

I don't think its "new" though as others have said. The T/S drives that etech sells seem to be from dev/beta/prototype etc. kits and have black trays instead of a gray ones. My theory is that these are also from prototype 360s just took awhile for some1 to notice them.

I noticed that in the "A Look Inside Xbox 360" and "TheColony" videos that there's a clip of one guy "poking around" in a protoype 360 and the dvd-rom in it looks very similar.

I snaped this from "TheColony"
(IMG:http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/3248/thecolonyv2750k00400016um.jpg)

Interesting...


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NookularDeath

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New DVD Drive Found in Xbox 360: Philips VAD6037/21
« Reply #63 on: June 28, 2006, 01:54:00 PM »
QUOTE(cross_stix @ Jun 28 2006, 02:49 PM) View Post

From thread New Philips Vad6037 Drive?



ok I will accept it being in a prototype 360... that's the ONLY place you will find these Philips DVD drives in...

I seriously doubt Philips will be included in any production runs of any 360s.... Not unless there's a shitload of them in the tens of thousands that need to be used up out of the inventory bins...

it would be interesting to know if these prototype 360s with the Philips DVD had any encryption technology built into them.. might be the reason why Hitachi and Samsung were exclusively chosen for the production runs due to their flashable ROMS to insert keys into them...

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stezo2k

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« Reply #64 on: June 28, 2006, 02:50:00 PM »
interesting.... i bet this is MS' attempt of stopping people from using the ODD hack. wouldn't suprise me if the firmware wasnt flashable

the tray looks very similar to the philips xbox1 drive
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Joergen

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« Reply #65 on: June 28, 2006, 03:42:00 PM »
Interesting that the "new" drive is manufactured in April of 2005. Clearly this is from a pre-production 360 unless these drives were on backlog somewhere waiting to be purged if the contractors had any problems.

Plus black is not a part of the 360 color scheme, where white and gray meet. Cables are gray, PSU is gray, sides are gray, tray is gray, controller has gray bezels, sticks and dpad. Only the IR lense is "black" but is actually translucent red.
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kev4e15

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New DVD Drive Found in Xbox 360: Philips VAD6037/21
« Reply #66 on: June 28, 2006, 04:05:00 PM »
Hmmmm...  Looks like shit in my opinion. I'd never want a white console with a black tray. Glad i've got a hitachi.
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cypher35

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« Reply #67 on: June 28, 2006, 04:41:00 PM »
which of these drives was the one that would scratch the shit out of disks when the xbox was rotated during playback?

i need to know which one to avoid...
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lucho

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« Reply #68 on: June 28, 2006, 05:18:00 PM »
All three Sammys I ordered from Etech.com all have black trays. They are dated May 05.  Only use them for SS.  I bet that drive was bought from the net somewhere and philips is not a new manufacture of 360 drives.

(IMG:http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/5002/img04952tx.jpg)

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cross_stix

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« Reply #69 on: June 28, 2006, 06:18:00 PM »
The black tray would make sense since most of the pre-release 360 dev. kits were black.

Also, sry if this is a little off topic and correct me if im wrong, but, didn't T/S drives not start appearing in retail 360s until early 2006?

What im getting at is that isn't it possible that these phillips drives could start appearing in reatil 360s since M$ already had them manufacture a few.

Probably not likely since they havn't appeared yet, but who knows.

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VinnySem

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« Reply #70 on: June 28, 2006, 06:58:00 PM »
QUOTE(Insipidus @ Jun 28 2006, 01:45 PM) View Post


Didn't you learn your lesson in the hilarious 3 pictures thread? How do you "drop" someone on the internet, by clicking the ban button with gusto? Get your ego in check and calm down.


Let's see, joined yesterday, post count in single digits... formerly banned member with a case of sore colon? Don't have that fresh-and-confident feeling?
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seedyrom2003

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« Reply #71 on: June 28, 2006, 07:38:00 PM »
Anyone try the e4tech Philips with an Xecuter adaptor for extracting SS's?..
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Heet

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« Reply #72 on: June 28, 2006, 08:17:00 PM »
All do Cypher35.  You cant move the 360 when the dvd is spinning.




DOAX2 Cypher!!!!!   wink.gif
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Insipidus

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« Reply #73 on: June 28, 2006, 08:58:00 PM »
QUOTE(VinnySem @ Jun 29 2006, 02:05 AM) *

Let's see, joined yesterday, post count in single digits... formerly banned member with a case of sore colon? Don't have that fresh-and-confident feeling?


Haha, fair conclusion but not true. I registered yesterday because it's been so long since I said anything here I forgot my username. I only look on here for info on my 360 and as of yet haven't found any topics that really needed input from me. Sometimes nothing is the smartest thing you can say.
And no I'm not saying this topic "really needed" my 2 cents, it just pisses me off when low level mods start threatening people rather than try to calm things down and keep them on topic.
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Woore

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New DVD Drive Found in Xbox 360: Philips VAD6037/21
« Reply #74 on: June 28, 2006, 09:15:00 PM »
Another drive thats kinda Gay. Anyway i have a buddy that asked me if could flash his F/W. When i asked him if he had holes in his tray ( Wanted to know if he had a hitachi) He told me that his tray was Black/ he said the he just got the X360 about 2 weeks ago at best buy. hes coming over on the weekend. Ill keep you guys posted if he has a one of the new drives. (Maybe ill give him a Brand new Sammy X360 for that one)
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