Hd DVD drive not working like it use to

You should donate that thing to a museum of failed technology.

No self-repair. Previously I had the external 360 HD DVD drive. It failed, and recently bought I new (completely new, never used) one. The console works fine, the HD DVD Drive is the issue.

[quote user="FullHornet"]It makes absolutely no sense why an Xbox One would play DVDs and Blu-Ray's and not play HD DVDs.[/quote]HD DVD and Blu-ray are formatted differently on the disc. Blu-ray players cannot read HD DVDs and vice versa. The exception being
multi-format drives designed to read both (I have two).



Beyond the physical inability to read an HD DVD in a Blu-ray drive, there's the issue of software. HDi Interactive Format was the standard used to create HD DVD menus and other content on-disc outside of the actual movie files. Blu-ray uses scripts and Java.
Unless playback software can understand HDi Interactive Format, HD DVD menus won't work and the disc won't play.



If it was possible for Blu-ray players to play HD DVD, people wouldn't be holding onto HD DVD drives.

Yes. The HD DVD drive will still work.

Sony indirectly rips people off like that & if you have a Blu-ray quad layer disc [BD-XL] you can't use it in your PS3 or any other dual layer device, unless you buy a quad layer BD drive

[some DL BRD, can be firmware updated though, but they aren't cheap]...

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HD-DVD discs can also hold DVD media on the same layer.. So you can put the HD-DVD disc into a DVD drive & watch your movie... Then put it into your HD-DVD player & watch your HD-DVD movie.. or just watch them both on a HD-DVD drive etc..