Hmm Yeah HD-DVD was a short lived thing, it is a LG drive and LG made lots of good DVD+Bluray burners and they are still my fav for use/life/etc for anything SATA.
Note: do not use the Lite-Scribe feature if you want the drive to last. It burns labels to Light-Scribe disks which burns the lasers out quicker than normal use....just my experience...

Horun wrote on 2024-09-30, 03:45:

Hmm Yeah HD-DVD was a short lived thing, it is a LG drive and LG made lots of good DVD+Bluray burners and they are still my fav for use/life/etc for anything SATA.
Note: do not use the Lite-Scribe feature if you want the drive to last. It burns labels to Light-Scribe disks which burns the lasers out quicker than normal use....just my experience...

Thank you for confirming that suspicion that I had about Light-Scribe.
I also agree about LG/Hitachi-LG drive quality.

Horun wrote on 2024-09-30, 03:45:

Hmm Yeah HD-DVD was a short lived thing, it is a LG drive and LG made lots of good DVD+Bluray burners and they are still my fav for use/life/etc for anything SATA.
Note: do not use the Lite-Scribe feature if you want the drive to last. It burns labels to Light-Scribe disks which burns the lasers out quicker than normal use....just my experience...

It's funny. I've had so many drivers that have had the light scribe feature, but have never actually used it. I don't know of anyone who has used it other than that one episode of Technology Connections on YouTube 5 years ago.

Cool! I saw one of these on eBay years ago and briefly considered it, but like most, I cannot find use for HD-DVD. I do have a few LG BD-RE/DVD+RW/-RW/-RAM/CD-RW drives.

I've used LightScribe probably less than 10 times in my lifetime. I never got any good quality from it. Not sure if it's the drive or the media I was using.
Can't tell now whether I have any statistics that showed that drives where I used LightScribe failed faster.

dr_st wrote on 2024-09-30, 13:36:

Cool! I saw one of these on eBay years ago and briefly considered it, but like most, I cannot find use for HD-DVD. I do have a few LG BD-RE/DVD+RW/-RW/-RAM/CD-RW drives.

I've used LightScribe probably less than 10 times in my lifetime. I never got any good quality from it. Not sure if it's the drive or the media I was using.
Can't tell now whether I have any statistics that showed that drives where I used LightScribe failed faster.

I have 2 of the XBox 360 HD DVD addon drives. They can work to play movies in Windows with an old release of PowerDVD (7.3 maybe). AFAIK, everything released on HD DVD has also been released on Blu-Ray.
I'm starting wonder why I'm hanging on to those 2 drives, especially since I also have an external LG HD-DVD/Blu Ray combo drive .

Anybody has PowerDVD 6.6 BD / PowerDVD 6.5 HD-DVD version or where it is possible to buy one of those?

PoweDVD 6.x should support even Windows 98 SE. There is also H264 pack add-on for PowerDVD 6 version.

From what little I could find: The PowerDVD HD-DVD versions were never sold thru Cyberlinks website (unlike the ones that work with Bluray) and only came bundled with specific HD-DVD drives.
There is mention of v7 HD-DVD version that also was bundled only with HD-DVD drives and also an update to v6.6 with HD-DVD support. The LG GGWH20L drive is one that included PD HD-DVD.
Looked thru my disks and found PD v3, v5 and v9 oems, nothing 6.x. Also found my old Asus SP98AGP-X mother board driver cd (M023) had been missing for a while...will post it as it may be rare 😁

PowerDVD 6.5/6.6: Use PowerDVD 6 kernel.
Both of these two versions are for OEM.
PowerDVD 6.5: For HDDVD.
PowerDVD 6.6: For Blu-ray disc.

Early hd-dvd/bluray ide drives could come with 6.5 and 6.6, also first 1080p h264 supported videocards, like ATi X1950 and Nvidia 6600GT.

I have PowerDVD 7 that came with my Samsung old SATA Bluray drive.

Horun wrote on 2024-09-30, 03:45:

Note: do not use the Lite-Scribe feature if you want the drive to last. It burns labels to Light-Scribe disks which burns the lasers out quicker than normal use....just my experience...

I have this drive and I used it to burn 3 lightscribe labels; the results were quite good.

I was under the impression that burning such labels was harmless.