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XBox 360 Elite question

Thread starter Banshee16
Start date Jul 16, 2007

drothgery

First Post

Jul 17, 2007

Rackhir said:
To clarify, what you posted in the original post IS correct, but not for the 360 elite. It's the 360+hd-dvd combination, that has those limitation. The HD-DVD drive has an HDMI output and it can't be used when playing games, it's only for playing back HD-DVD movies. The HDMI port on the Elite can be used for outputting the signal from a game.

Err... that's wrong. The HD-DVD player doesn't have any video output on its own. It uses whatever you connect your console to your TV. This could, theoretically, be a problem with some of the copy protection schemes used with HD-DVD (and Blu-Ray); it's possible to mark a movie so that if it's end-to-end HDMI with HDCP the movie signal will be degraded to SD resolutions. However, no movies actually do that, and all studios have promised that they won't for at least another two years.