Did the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive firmware change?

[bluesk1d]

I got one of these drives in order to tinker around with the new codecs and start building my HD DVD collection. My original intention was to use it to demux/re-encode HD DVDs in order to wirelessly stream the videos to my 360. Unfortunately it looks like the the drive has changed in some way because the Toshiba UDF drivers (2.5) that had been being used to get this device recognized under XP no longer work. When it's plugged in, I just get a notification balloon stating it is an "Unknown device" and doesn't even recognize as a normal CD ROM drive as I guess it used to. I know a lot of you that demux/re-encode content from HD DVDs use this drive and was wondering if anyone heard about the drivers no longer working on newer drives.

Thanks!

EDIT: I spoke too soon! It was isolated to the USB cable supplied by Microsoft with the HD DVD drive. Coincidence...?

[bond]

moved

[awhitehead]

Based on my understanding, current batch of Xbox 360 HD-DVD drives (Toshiba SD-S802A) are shipped with firmware version MC08. Amir Majidimehr (amirm) indicated on AVSforum that HD-DVD Xbox update is decoupled from the Spring dashboard update (Rumored to be out on May 7th), and will be available within a few days of the Dashboard update.

Amirm pretty much confirmed that that update will have updated HD-DVD drive firmware.

Hope this helps.