hd-dvd rom drive

[computerchuck]

Recently I was given a hd-dvd drive toshiba sd-h802a. It plays regular dvds fine. I just bought batman begins on hd-dvd yesterday and when you try to load it it says the file is corrupt or blank. I can't even look at the contents of the disc letalone try to play it on the pc. the drive was barebone with no software or drivers and the toshiba website is useless in this area. I am running windows xp xp2 pro. plenty of memory and other details. any ideas on how to resolve this?

[GilbyGood]

The Japanese company, Buffalo, has announced what they call the world's first HD DVD-ROM drive for the PC. Based on the Toshiba SD-H802A, the HDV-ROM2.4FB can read HD DVD-ROM and HD DVD-R discs at 2.4x and is backwards compatible with most DVD and CD media. Here's part of their press release, translated from Japanese:


“HDV-ROM2.4FB” 30GB (HD DVD-ROM) is the HD DVD drive for PC which corresponds to the playback of the next generation optical disk “HD DVD” which actualizes bulk at single sided 2 layer in place of DVD which presently has spread. Adopting TOSHIBA corporation make HD DVD drive “SD-H802A” to drive. HD DVD-ROM of HD DVD Disc (it reads and private 1 layer /2 layer), HD DVD-R ([raitowansu] and 1 layer) corresponds to lead/read 2 type. Respectively, it corresponds to reading 2.4 time speed, * 2. DVD (DVD±R, RW and ±R2 layer, DVD-ROM)/it corresponds to the playback of CD-R, RW and ROM other than HD DVD. It can correspond HD DVD of the next generation at 1 units without also the DVD/CD contents which already you have of course making wasteful.
The HDV-ROM2.4FB comes with CyberLink PowerDVD HD DVD Edition and is expected to hit store shelves at the end of December for 37,000 Yen ($322US). More information can be found here.

http://www.cdrlabs.com/news/byte/4544

I belive that the drive that you have is a standard DVD drive.

[DarrellS]

From Googling, it seems the drive is HD-DVD...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20060609045534.html

so I assume you need the software to view the disc on your PC.

Cyberlink Power DVD 7 Ultra maybe.

http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/products/main_112_ENU.html

[waheed]

You need a software HD DVD player.

If you have your display hooked up via Digital, then you also need a compliant HDCP Graphics Card and Monitor.

Not sure about analog.

[jman98]

You probably need HD-DVD drivers. Look at
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/11/8303/
and look for the link called "these drivers". You will also need software that is capable of playing HD-DVD. There are no freeware HD-DVD players at this time. Finally, unless you have a HDCP compliant card and monitor, as waheed points out, you will not have full resolution playback on your PC. This is something that the software player companies have built into the software and at this time it is not a restriction on the HD-DVD disc itself. The format allows for such restrictions on the discs, but they aren't being used at this time.

[computerchuck]

thanks that did the trick for the udf. Now all I need is software player.

[computerchuck]

well got software dvd player and now it tells me to spend more money....

http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/support/answerbox_productfaq.jsp?FID=2577


http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/support/answerbox_productfaq.jsp?FID=2584


I'm just gonna get the xbox addon and be done with it. Maybe next year I'll build a htpc.