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bigjimmy

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Ps3 And 360 Hd Dvd Add-on?
« on: November 21, 2006, 10:10:00 PM »
Thats a damn good idea......im sure it wont be long until the drivers for the HD-DVD player are released or made for linux.
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bucko

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Ps3 And 360 Hd Dvd Add-on?
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2006, 04:35:00 AM »
Well I read ages back that the HD-DVD set-top box players actually have a Linux as the OS (I believe it was a very trimmed down version of Red Hat) to fit inside a flash chip. You know them great big HD-DVD players I'm talking about.

So I'm sure HD-DVD works under Linux.

Well with all the 360 firmware hacking I'm sure one of them guys could knock up a modified driver for the drive to work in PPC Linux.

Edit that would also be good if Blu-Ray fails, and your expensive PS3 investment wont be so bad at all, you will have the best of both worlds.
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silentbob343

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Ps3 And 360 Hd Dvd Add-on?
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2006, 09:12:00 PM »
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A software player needs AACS keys and I doubt that any open source application will qualify for them.

Chances are we'll need to purchase a piece of software like WinDVD or PowerDVD to play the disc.
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