Xbox 360 HD DVD Problem (Fix Inside for movies like Knocked Up and Transformers)

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i knew it was a cookie problem. Just didnt kbow where to go. Thanks a lot!

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You are a star my friend!!! Was just getting ready to send this disc back to the US after having imported it to England. Bravo!!!!

Thank you a ton. I was getting so pissed off, Transformers was not working, adn i couldnt figure out why. Deleted everything in HD_DVD, adn it works, thank you .

It did not work. I had no cookies. I call Microsoft and they had me do a harddrive maintence. They said that should have done the same as deleting the cookies. Which they said that the box doesn’t have.

So, if I have no cookies to delete, what can I do? It will not play any HD dvd’s. DVD’s run fine. Please help. Microsoft wants me to send in the player with $60 to get repaired. The player works on my PC.

Great post … but it didn’t seem to work for me. This problem is really frustrating. I’ve watched several HD-DVD’s on my system, but for some reason its just stopped working. I tired deleting the cookies, but I encountered the same problem (I didn’t get a loading screen either).

An update to my earlier post - I got it working!!
I don’t know if the deleting cookies also helped but I eventually tried by rebooting the HD-DVD drive (as opposed to rebooting the Xbox itself!!!). As soon as I did that, the HD-DVD player came to life.

I tried several time taking the power cable out of the Xbox360 and replacing it to hard boot it, but it didn’t work. Then I remembered that the HD-DVD accessory has its own power supply, so I tried that - and it worked.

Just to recap - my symptoms before this were that the HD-DVD player played normal DVD’s just fine, but would not play HD discs. It kept jumping back to the Xbox dashboard.

I have reformated my hard drive and still no hd dvd player. i have had my elite for about a month and a half now. first time using the hd dvd player but transformers won’t play. what now?

I have the same problem too. The HD DVD player worked just fine once but now it won’t load up. I have the elite so there are no cookies, or HD DVD devices to select in the system blade????

I’m gonna tell I was stumped. I called Microsoft support and they had no idea that this was going on with the web enabled update freezes with Transformers or Knocked Up. I got a lot of Man Love for ya. This fix has alleviated my pain. I’ll be passing this info on. Thank you.

I was gonna “transform” my HDVD disc into a $30 cup holder till I found this forum, did as you prescribed and the Transformers HDVD works again =D! AWESOME WORK GUYS!!!!

i still cant get it to work. i dont think i am doing it right. anyone up for a step by step process =] ty.

Thank you very much! I was having problems where my xbox 360 elite would actually lockup when I put in Knocked Up HD DVD. I deleted the 11mb file off my player and now all is well. Thanks.

You my man are the shit! I figured that was the problem but was scared to pull the trigger!

Thanks a ton dude. I can’t believe it was such an easy fix. Man i took relentless enemies back, and really wanted to watch that one… too bad.

But seriously awesome dude.

Excellent advice. Called XBox Twice with no help. Called them the third time to let them know how to fix it with your solution.

Thanks a lot man! It totally fixed the problem I was having with Transformers!!

I must have waisted 2hrs messing around trying to get Transformers to play. It worked great the first time. But the second time I tried to watch it, it would just hang. Thanks brother, if your ever in Daytona Beach I’ll buy ya a cold one!

You’re awesome! This glitch from Knocked Up apparently affects Shrek 3 on HDDVD, too. I just spent two hours with Microsoft trying to understand why after playing Shrek once it wouldn’t work again–I kept getting C66700A status code. Microsoft had no idea and told me my Shrek disc was bad, but I knew it wasn’t. After digging around, I found this post. I rented and played Knocked Up in between my viewings of Shrek. Once I erased the cookies, my Shrek 3 HDDVD fired right up. I tried calling Microsoft to let them know of the solution, but they had no idea what I was talking about and couldn’t be bothered. Thanks again!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I even called Microsoft only to be told that it was a common problem and they had “no idea whatsoever when the update would be ready” The guy said it was a “firmware update problem” and to just be patient. Once again Many Thanks!

thaNKS DUDE….im getting laid because of you!!!!!!!!!!!

What do you do if you have the elite and don’t have cookies? It plays standard but not hd disc’s.

Wow…i’ve been messing with Tranansformers for weeks, even got a replacement. Your fix was so easy! Thanks!!!!!

Thanks man I was really getting frustrated with transformers I watched it once but a couple months later it just kicked back to the dashboard and I knew the disc was fine. For those who asked about why only normal disk are playing I wanted to make sure that you bought the HD dvd player which comes seperate because the elite itself doesn’t play HD movies. I just wanted to clarify cause when my friend bought his he was asking me the same thing he thought that the 360 played HD

I have a different problem with my hd player…. for whatever reason at ramdom point during movies my tv switches av and then back again (become anoying by the 4th time) I thought it was my xbox or tv so lent it to a mate and the same happens on his. Any ideas???

Hey guys just stumbled upon this forum. May I ask, has anyone got video lag issues on there xbox 360s with the hd DVD drive? I have cleared the cookies as mentioned earlier and also tried a hard power down of my 360 hd DVD drive. I have only watched 2 hd dvds so far. Shrek 3 and norbit. Help!