The guy at Best Buy told me the Hd drive upconverted regular dvd to HD, but only through HDMI.I bought the drive, and later realized MS doesn't make an HDMI cable for the xbox 360.I called Xbox 360 tech support and was told that the external drive definitely does not upconvert.On the other hand, the same tech also told me the drive wouldn't even play regular dvd's. Not true.I am not happy with the way the Xbox console dvd player works, it freezes alot, starts out with subtitles on and won't let me change it,and the size of the widescreen image is very small vertically,on both the internal and external drive.Yesterday my console froze up, I changed DVD's and my tv still showed a frozen image of the first disk.Now it doesn't do anything except show a distorted image of the dashboard.I have my console networked to my PC, which is cool because I can listen to my music stored on a drive upstairs. Unfortunately I don't have Windows Media Center,only XP, so I can't stream video.So, now I am at the point of trying to decide if I should return the console to costco, and the HD drive to BB, or buy a new console, switch out the internal drive, and return the old one.After reading all the posts on here about upconverting or not, I am more confused then when I started.As a side note, in a previous post someone stated that they would not benefit anyway from an upconvert because their TV only displayed 720P anyway. Well correct me if I am wrong,but don't regular dvd's only display in 480i,and wouldn't he then benefit from an upconvert to 720P?
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The guy at Best Buy told me the Hd drive upconverted regular dvd to HD, but only through HDMI.I bought the drive, and later realized MS doesn't make an HDMI cable for the xbox 360.I called Xbox 360 tech support and was told that the external drive definitely does not upconvert.On the other hand, the same tech also told me the drive wouldn't even play regular dvd's. Not true.I am not happy with the way the Xbox console dvd player works, it freezes alot, starts out with subtitles on and won't let me change it,and the size of the widescreen image is very small vertically,on both the internal and external drive.Yesterday my console froze up, I changed DVD's and my tv still showed a frozen image of the first disk.Now it doesn't do anything except show a distorted image of the dashboard.I have my console networked to my PC, which is cool because I can listen to my music stored on a drive upstairs. Unfortunately I don't have Windows Media Center,only XP, so I can't stream video.So, now I am at the point of trying to decide if I should return the console to costco, and the HD drive to BB, or buy a new console, switch out the internal drive, and return the old one.After reading all the posts on here about upconverting or not, I am more confused then when I started.As a side note, in a previous post someone stated that they would not benefit anyway from an upconvert because their TV only displayed 720P anyway. Well correct me if I am wrong,but don't regular dvd's only display in 480i,and wouldn't he then benefit from an upconvert to 720P?