Don’t bother using the Xbox 360 as a DVD player (note: that’s regular DVD, not HD DVD) since, according to Extreme Tech, it’s absolutely terrible. ET went to extreme measures to test the performance ...

With the release of Microsoft's Xbox, there are now two next-generation game consoles that are able to play DVDs. In order to view DVD movies on your Xbox you need to have the official DVD Remote. We ...

Ravisent Technologies has announced an agreement with Microsoft to provide its DVD playback software for Microsoft's Xbox console. According to Ravisent, its CineMaster DVD engine is optimized for the ...

Microsoft and Ravisent recently revealed that the Xbox will not feature DVD movie playback out of the box. Consumers interested in viewing DVD movies through the Xbox will have to purchase a separate ...

You know by now that to play DVDs on the Xbox, you've actually got to buy the DVD Playback Kit, a remote and an IR port that also just happen to activate the Xbox's DVD capabilities. Without it, ...

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REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 26, 2002 — For movie fans and gamers, the Xbox (TM) video game system from Microsoft Corp. just became the blockbuster feel-good hit of the year. Effective immediately through a ...

I recently got the Xbox HD-DVD addon to use as an external drive for my laptop, and everything almost seems to work. The HD-DVDs are recognized (and I can see the file structure) and they play in ...

Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but I am looking to buy a new DVD player, and thought I could fool the wife into getting a games console if I told her it also played DVDs.<BR><BR>Thus I ...

This article was originally published in February 2014, and much of the information is now out of date. But not to worry - Digital Foundry re-assessed the media functionality of PS4 and Xbox One in ...

Since we're already in the spirit of covering movie-playback downgrades on other upcoming hardware platforms, let's keep the ball rolling. Matt Casamassina, IGN's long-suffering embedded Nintendo ...