Given the following assumptions 1-4: 1) The drive is just a USB2 HD-DVD drive and can read HD-DVD just fine when connected to MCE2005/Vista and it is $200 or less.
2) Intervideo and/or Cyberlink HD-DVD playback software becomes readily available and is not prohibitively expensive
3) HDMI/DVI-HDCP video cards become readily available and you can walk into blah retailer and pick one up off the shelf.
4) cases 1-2-3 all actually work and allow fairly easy setup of an HD-DVD 1080P playback HTPC.
then the poll chioces are
94 votes thus far
33 (35.1%) [A] Would buy the Xbox 360 HD-DVD addon for use with my WINMCE2005/VISTA box
22 (23.4%) [B] Would buy the Xbox 360 HD-DVD addon for use with my Xbox 360
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Given the following assumptions 1-4:
1) The drive is just a USB2 HD-DVD drive and can read HD-DVD just fine when connected to MCE2005/Vista and it is $200 or less.
2) Intervideo and/or Cyberlink HD-DVD playback software becomes readily available and is not prohibitively expensive
3) HDMI/DVI-HDCP video cards become readily available and you can walk into blah retailer and pick one up off the shelf.
4) cases 1-2-3 all actually work and allow fairly easy setup of an HD-DVD 1080P playback HTPC.
then the poll chioces are
94 votes thus far
33 (35.1%) [A] Would buy the Xbox 360 HD-DVD addon for use with my WINMCE2005/VISTA box
22 (23.4%) [B] Would buy the Xbox 360 HD-DVD addon for use with my Xbox 360
19 (20.2%) [C] Would buy one for both
20 (21.3%) [D] Don't care