This may have been covered already but I'm a little confused to say the least!

I understand that the HD DVD drive isn't region encoded but the X-box is. What I'm unclear on is if I connect the drive to my PC instead (and from there to the TV) will I be able to play region 1 dvds and will it lock my drive to that region so if I then connect it to my xbox again I'm stuck with that region?

Hope that makes sense and hope someone can help!

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Originally Posted by biroman13

This may have been covered already but I'm a little confused to say the least!

I understand that the HD DVD drive isn't region encoded but the X-box is. What I'm unclear on is if I connect the drive to my PC instead (and from there to the TV) will I be able to play region 1 dvds and will it lock my drive to that region so if I then connect it to my xbox again I'm stuck with that region?

Hope that makes sense and hope someone can help!

It is the PC's Windows version region for DVD that changes not the actual drive - if you put in a region 1 windows will prompt to change the region and tell you how many changes you have left (in windows) . You can use DVD4free or anydvd to get round this limitation of windows.

For instance Linux doesnt care about regions - it will play discs from any region using the xbox360 add on (or any DVD-Rom drive).

When the add on is attached to the 360 you are then restricted to region 2 or region free discs.