Talken from an gizmodo.com article "Microsoft and Toshiba demo the Xbox 360 HD DVD and 2nd Gen HD DVD Players"


Some things I found out, and can talk about is the 360 HD-DVD drive can be plugged into a PC and it will be recognized as an optical drive, but will not play HD-DVD movies. I asked what if you have the proper HD-DVD software on the PC, to that [redacted] said that he didn't know, it hadn't been tried yet- maybe there's something there...
Source: gizmodo.com

Does this mean if someone does develop the software, there could be a very cheap HD-DVD player for the P.C. ?