Yeah, but that doesn't solve my problem of getting a drive which is region free. I assume that XBOX360 add on drive is not region free.
It would allow me to watch HD movies, but not movies from other regions. Thats my motivation for getting an external drive which is capable of being region free.
well anydvd will make it region free, the matsushita drive uniquely doesn't work with anydvd which is why it is not region-free. you don't have to have a hardware region-free drive, that's the whole point of anydvd.
also, there's plenty of hacked firmware for the 360 drives, although i think they're for playing backups, not for rpc1
on a related note, what's the dvd performance on the 360hdvd is it 16x or more reading, riplocked, how well does it cope with dvd+r, i assume it doesn't burn anything....?