HD-DVD of Transformers not playing

danger boy
danger boy Posts: 15,722
edited November 2007 in Music & Movies
i got a HD-DVD of Transformer special edition for a friend to play on his new Toshiba laptop computer and it won't play. neither will the second disc with the extras on it.

it's possible the disc is bad, but you wouldn't think the extra's disc would be bad too.

has anyone read or heard of a Toshiba notebook computer having problems playing certain HD-DVD's? he as a few other HD-DVD's and they all play fine.
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  • Polk65
    Polk65 Posts: 1,405
    edited October 2007
    Send it over here Al, I'll look into it. ;)
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited October 2007
    He probably needs an update. I had to update my hd-dvd player in order for "Transformer" to play correctly.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited October 2007
    ND13 wrote: »
    He probably needs an update. I had to update my hd-dvd player in order for "Transformer" to play correctly.

    you mean update the drivers, right?
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited October 2007
    They're selling laptops with HD-DVD drives now? Neat.
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited October 2007
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    They're selling laptops with HD-DVD drives now? Neat.

    Yep. Dell does blu ray and toshi does HD-dvd-(obviously)
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  • AndyGwis
    AndyGwis Posts: 3,655
    edited October 2007
    I have had to update my players to get them to play newer discs as well.

    Make sure the firmware is updated, if that's something you can do with the laptop drive.
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  • fireshoes
    fireshoes Posts: 3,167
    edited October 2007
    Transformers tries to autoupdate for the web-enabled features. I bet that is the culprit. I would say to make sure the laptop is online, or try to find out if there is a way to bypass the update. He also might not be waiting long enough.The 360 add-ons are taking around 5 minutes for playback the first time through, but after that it's just a few seconds.
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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    edited October 2007
    fireshoes wrote: »
    Transformers tries to autoupdate for the web-enabled features. I bet that is the culprit. I would say to make sure the laptop is online, or try to find out if there is a way to bypass the update. He also might not be waiting long enough.The 360 add-ons are taking around 5 minutes for playback the first time through, but after that it's just a few seconds.

    ps, DON'T interrupt the 360 add-on while it updates itself. wait the 1-6 minutes!

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    I have no facts to back that up, but I never let facts get in the way of my arguments.
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited November 2007
    fireshoes wrote: »
    Transformers tries to autoupdate for the web-enabled features. I bet that is the culprit. I would say to make sure the laptop is online, or try to find out if there is a way to bypass the update. He also might not be waiting long enough.The 360 add-ons are taking around 5 minutes for playback the first time through, but after that it's just a few seconds.

    I had the same problem. I was suprised at how long that update took to complete.
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