[KyaDawn]

I bought this disc as I read that some people had problems with it, but could finally get it to load. I've tried about 5 times and it still doesn't load for me. Has anyone that has gotten it to work with their 360 add-on have any solutions? Does boiling work? Please help, thanks!

 

[A.VOID]



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Originally Posted by KyaDawn /forum/post/0


I bought this disc as I read that some people had problems with it, but could finally get it to load. I've tried about 5 times and it still doesn't load for me. Has anyone that has gotten it to work with their 360 add-on have any solutions? Does boiling work? Please help, thanks!

It was hit and miss for me. I wiped it down and it loaded. Another time I reseated the disc and it loaded.

 

[vanilla rice]

ah crap... i hope this doesn't cheese out on me (shipping next week w/ Matrix)... though i've had good luck with Children of Men and Smokin Aces... fingers crossed and knock on wood...

 

[nohkul]

The first day I got the disc I could never get it to work. It's totally hit and miss for me as well, but I finally got it to work a couple of times. I've obvserved three scenarios: (a) It displays "Reading" in the dashboard and never plays the movie, (b) it switches to the movie mode (black screen) but then says "Can't read disc" in a blade, or (c) it actually plays the movie.


This probably isn't the real "fix", but my chances seem to increase if I stand at the player and eject and reinsert using the button on the drive itself. From what I remember I only used the eject button on the remote the first day.

 

[TrueHD]



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Originally Posted by nohkul /forum/post/0


The first day I got the disc I could never get it to work. It's totally hit and miss for me as well, but I finally got it to work a couple of times. I've obvserved three scenarios: (a) It displays "Reading" in the dashboard and never plays the movie, (b) it switches to the movie mode (black screen) but then says "Can't read disc" in a blade, or (c) it actually plays the movie.


This probably isn't the real "fix", but my chances seem to increase if I stand at the player and eject and reinsert using the button on the drive itself. From what I remember I only used the eject button on the remote the first day.

The eject button on the remote only ejects the 360 tray, it doesn't eject the HD DVD tray.


My copy plays fine, but the first time I stuck it in I got the disc can't read thing, but its worked fine since then.

 

[Socio]

It works just fine using the XBOX360 HD DVD drive on my PC so if you are having problems playing it with the XBOX console then it is likely the console software not the drive.


It is a full screen screen movie by the way and the PQ is very good.

 

[BassTek]



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Originally Posted by Socio /forum/post/0


It works just fine using the XBOX360 HD DVD drive on my PC so if you are having problems playing it with the XBOX console then it is likely the console software not the drive.


It is a full screen screen movie by the way and the PQ is very good.

4:3 full screen?

 

[RodChester]



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Originally Posted by BassTek /forum/post/0


4:3 full screen?

It's not 4:3 full screen. The picture is 16x9 anamorphic so the image is the correct ratio to fill the whole screen if you have a 16x9 TV.

 

[DrCrawn]

not anamorphic

 

[brjahu]



Quote:
Originally Posted by KyaDawn /forum/post/0


I bought this disc as I read that some people had problems with it, but could finally get it to load. I've tried about 5 times and it still doesn't load for me. Has anyone that has gotten it to work with their 360 add-on have any solutions? Does boiling work? Please help, thanks!

Movie works great on mine. No problems. Make sure you have the recent update.

 

[Dave Mack]

no such thing as anamorphic HD...

 

[halfsane]



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Originally Posted by brjahu /forum/post/0


Movie works great on mine. No problems. Make sure you have the recent update.

same here, no problems

 

[nohkul]



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Originally Posted by TrueHD /forum/post/0


The eject button on the remote only ejects the 360 tray, it doesn't eject the HD DVD tray.


My copy plays fine, but the first time I stuck it in I got the disc can't read thing, but its worked fine since then.

I mispoke. I didn't eject with the remote using the button. It would be stuck on "Reading" in the dashboard. I used the power button to power down and power back up. Then the dashboard gave you the option to "Open HD-DVD tray" after it restarted. I opened the HD-DVD tray (using the dashboard) and closed it again all from the remote. So I ejected using the remote but just not using the eject button.

 

[nohkul]



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Originally Posted by brjahu /forum/post/0


Movie works great on mine. No problems. Make sure you have the recent update.

I have the 5/15/07 HD-DVD update. "Heart: Alive in Seattle", "Discovery Atlas: Australia", and "Disovery Atlas: Italy" work after update. "Fountain" is hit and miss for me and some other people.

 

[Sorax]

I watched it all the way through and the extras without a problem. I'm on my 2nd add-on. My 1st drive had problems playing lots of disc and couldn't read the 2nd layer on a few. My 2nd add-on hasn't had any problems with brand-new and scratched rentals. I think the diodes in some drives are much more finicky then most. If you are having lots of problems and are still in warranty I suggest getting a new drive.

 

[KyaDawn]

I finally got it to work by wiping it down with a little spit. Of course had to make sure it was dry so no moisture gets on the lens, but it worked and with no issues after that. Still wish they would make less of these combo discs or if necessary, just make them a little better.

 

[pkde]

I got my disc today and it loads fine on the add-on, however, I experience some freezes after around 42 minutes of playback. Loading the disc again, the passage works fine, but another one keeps surging.


Well I think it's not a disc issue, rather a hardware problem. When I first bought a DVD-ROM drive to play DVDs on my computer I had problems with Matrix. One time it plays fine, another time not.

After buying a standalone player after several months I never had problems again.

 

[matts82173]



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Originally Posted by Dave Mack /forum/post/0


no such thing as anamorphic HD...

I have watched several anamorphic HDDvds... Slither and Children of Men to name a few... Didn't have any problems playing the Fountain on my add-on...guess I was lucky...

 

[eapleitez]

16:9 and anamorphic are not the same thing. I can see how the casual observer can make that mistake, though.

 

[fritzilla]

I can get it to play about 10% of the time. The other time's I get the "Can't Read Disc" error. This is on my 360 HD DVD add-on drive.


One time when it played it looked fine except for in about 4 spots for about 30 seconds it had a very poor/low frame rate.


THe second time it worked, today, it did not have that frame rate issue. I only checked the first scene I noticed the frame rate issue, and it played fine this time.


I am not sure whether or not to return it or what.