mk-donald:
May want to think ahead and check whether THIS (or any other new graphics card) supports HDCP ie High Definition Copy Protection. I forgot to check/consider this when I upgraded last Autumn and now can't use my £10 HD-DVD drive with it - durh (had never expected HD drives to be so cheap and HD/HDTV sources to become so common).
You can overcome this in two ways:
1. Use a VGA cable instead of DVI/HDMI.
2. Use AnyDVD HD as this circumvents HDCP protection without needing you to do anything; it runs in the background.
I bought one of the Xbox drives from Amazon.DE and have a HDCP compliant VGA card but not a monitor and AnyDVD HD works just fine.
