SilverWook said:

Aren't game consoles notoriously finicky for DVD playback?

I wouldn't know. Never heard much about it before, and don't have much experience with it. My XBox at home (not 360) modded with XBMP plays most DVDs fine. Has problems playing some of the few DVD+Rs I have, and the XBMP program itself still has a few annoying bugs in it, but that's about it.

Before I brought the XBox over, we used to watch DVDs through a PS2, and I remember it would just sit there a judder and skip when we tried watching burned discs (though for some reason, it played those DVD+Rs pretty okay).