Serrels over at Kotaku is reporting that Microsoft customer support has begun informing some Xbox 360 owners that the DVD drive in their console may not play retail discs after the upcoming update to Xbox Live. The good news is that they’re supposedly replacing the units at fault.
So you have an old USB HDD enclosure and a plain ol’ DVD drive, but what you really need is a shiny external DVD Drive. Today you’re in luck, because our friends at Lifehacker have instructions for a DIY frankendrive.