HD-DVD drive now available for under $100?
I was recently browsing on eBay and seller gameconsolehk is selling Toshiba SD-S802A HD-DVD drives for Xbox 360 for less than $100 shipped. At first I thought it was a typo or an unscrupulous seller. But I did some research and apparently it is the drive that Microsoft uses in the addon HD-DVD drives for the 360.
According to captain_video on the HTPCNews forum, the drive does have a non-standard connector, but you can use a laptop drive adaptor to connect it to the standard drive connector in your PC – IDE I am guessing, but possibly SATA? The drive appears to have special mounts on the sides, but maybe you can take them off to mount the drive in your PC? Aside from this, I couldn’t find a lot more information on this drive aside from eBay listings and a couple of firmware hackers.
This seems a bit weird. I find it strange that the seller seems to have no shortage of these (there are several listings), especially at such a low price. Also, if Toshiba can sell these at such a low price, why don’t they sell these at this price to the general PC user market? They would sell like hotcakes! What’s going on here?
Will not work. Read:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=765253
Comment by Kevin — May 19, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
Actually you can get this drive working with an adapter.
see http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/11/8303/
and
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=3be1d1b9d324ec46d459cfdbf088732b&t=1181027&page=3
The reason they’re probably not selling it direct to consumers is they don’t want to undercut their standalone players yet while the early adaptors (aka big spenders) are still buying them.
Comment by Tim — May 23, 2007 @ 11:07 pm
Hi, this is Jeans.
I am the seller of the HD DVD player.
Those are overstock from Toshiba, which are in original package.
And We don’t have experiences on installing those drive, but i think some expert in the world may interest in it. That Why i sell to ebay and at cheap price too.
thanks
Comment by Jeans@gameconsolehk — September 9, 2007 @ 4:57 am