1. You only need that adapter if you want to mount the drive internally or put it on the IDE bus.

If you are content with using it over USB, then according to the article you just plug it in and load the drivers.

Posted at 11:35AM on Nov 13th 2006 by TJ

2. you don't need the adapter, only if you want to put it inside a tower case.

Posted at 11:46AM on Nov 13th 2006 by fucter

3. I thought DVD Player for Mac OS X supported HD-DVD, or maybe that's just for OS X 10.5 -- but I certainly remember reading about it before.

Posted at 2:42PM on Nov 13th 2006 by ravuya

4. Actually, according to http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/dvdplayer/ we can play HD-DVDs. Maybe it just doesn't support the copy protection yet, or something.

Posted at 2:43PM on Nov 13th 2006 by ravuya

5. Anyone find it interesting that the drive isnt SATA? Ok not that interesting, just that I would prefer a sata drive to an ide..

It's probably easier and cheaper to make an IDE to USB adapter, instead of sata to usb.

Posted at 2:58PM on Nov 13th 2006 by japroach

6. Data transfer probably isn't fast enough to justify SATA.

Posted at 3:59PM on Nov 13th 2006 by ravuya

7. this might not be a bad option for the early adopters, but I think I'll hold off until I see what kind of prices a internal read only HD-DVD drive is going to level out at. 199 is pricey for no burning capabilities (granted HD-DVD is a new technology) but I'm content with DL-DVD until I can get the drive that will both read and write.

Posted at 4:30PM on Nov 13th 2006 by jimmy d

8. I dont think that drive is SATA, the adapter picture shows a 40pin PATA connector. Comments on the site which hosts that HOWTO say its a mini ATAPI connector. Anyways you can get these adapters from old iMacs, they all use laptop optical drives and have adapter boards on them to give a normal 40 pin PATA connector.

Posted at 9:36AM on Nov 14th 2006 by Marukka

9. only a couple of days after its release, nice...

Posted at 7:36PM on Nov 16th 2006 by wolf

10. If you want to convert avi to zune, rm to zune, rmvb to zune, divx to zune, vob to zune, xvid to zune,
wmv to zune, asf to zune, or other formats to zune, you may need Zune Video Converter

Posted at 2:20AM on Nov 22nd 2006 by dvd to zune converter

11. If you want to convert avi to zune, rm to zune, rmvb to zune, divx to zune, vob to zune, xvid to zune,
wmv to zune, asf to zune, or other formats to zune, you may need Zune Video Converter

Posted at 2:22AM on Nov 22nd 2006 by dvd to zune converter

12. saft war for hack

Posted at 8:09AM on Jan 18th 2007 by omidzamani

13. looks like my hd-xbox dive needs driver installed are there drivers that'll work for pc-windows it works usb but not well.

Posted at 2:39PM on Feb 9th 2007 by David Rose

14. Has anyone actually tried the addaptor. my drive works fine with usb, however when i hook up to the ide the disc isnt seen.
Any help?

Posted at 11:44PM on Apr 7th 2007 by corey

15. is playback smooth? i have heard reports that playback is jerky.

Posted at 10:39PM on Nov 2nd 2007 by john

16. Drives are now $50 since HD-DVD support dropped my Mfg. (Toshiba). That makes this a nice, USB-powered DVD drive for general PC/Mac use, and possibly HD-DVD player (with proper drivers, haven't tried it yet)

Posted at 4:17PM on Feb 26th 2008 by Ken Hansen