If you Google the error code, (which I don't have offhand) it's pretty clear that it doesn't matter if it's from a disc, stick or streamed from the PC. Like a teenage girl loudly quoting The Boosh on a train, it's well random.

I know this is a dumb question but I do get a mental block sometimes - how do I sign out of xbox live without signing my profile out altogether? I want to play PGR3 without getting the online leaderboards.

That sucks. Do you have more than one file on a disc or just the one? If it's just the one then burn the file onto the disc as a proper video file and it should read it fine as a DVD.

It's happened both with single files on a disc or a bunch, there's no rhyme or reason to it. I know there's the option of burning straight up DVDs, but I love being able to burn off a quick disc with a bunch of files on, then watch them on the TV.

Why not network to your PC then? Faster, easier and saves on discs.

1) I'm a techno spastic
2) I'll still have the error problem, so why bother?

I'm not overly equiped in the brain department for techy stuff (although I have got better over the years), but it really is simple. And like I said, I was having the exact same problem and I cannot believe it was coinsidence that me wiping all networks and starting from scratch sorted it out.

I just bought a HD TV and am wondering how I am supposed to get to play in HD?

I have plugged in the blue, green and red bits from the 360 lead into the corresponding holes on on the tv which will give me picture but no sound, I have flicked the switch to HDTV also.

Any suggestions?

Cheers.

have you changed the picture settings on the xbox dashboard?

Change to what my good man?
Sorry to sound noobish but, I have picture, just not sound

There should be five leads on your component cable. You've got the Red, Green and Blue in which should give you picture however you should have a red and white one left over and there should be a extra two slots next to them for you to gain sound

Because you haven't plugged the sound in.

The red, green and blue cables carry the red, green and blue signals in the picture. There should be an extra white and an extra red cable dangling around off this lead. Find the corresponding holes on the back of your telly (should be right next to where you've plugged the red, green & blue in).

EDIT: Or, yeah, what Lawz said with his helpful diagram.

Far Cry 2 is seriously rocking my world. I was put off buying it at full price because of the open world nature perhaps not fitting in with an FPS and because I'd read some articles complaining about the save point mechanism but I saw it for £15 and figured it had to be worth a go. Glad I did, a really amazing game with a pacing like no other I can remember playing.

Has anyone played "Rock Revolution"? Konami's non-answer to Guitar Hero / Rock Band. I'm guessing probably nobody has, because according to mygamercard.net, there are currently 609 people with a copy of this game (and a live account). Compared with 600,000 with Rock Band and 490,000 Guitar Hero: WT

Cheers, but I dont think my TV is compatible with that set up as I don't have any other coloured ports.

Is there another way around this?

EDIT - Just tried plugging them into the sare slots although their not coloured and am now getting sound. Cheers!

Wow the Sky TV partnership looks great, Movies, Prem League Football possibly includes WWE by the sounds of it.

Also cant wait for Left for Dead 2, loved the first one.

Yeah I had it out from lovefilm and loved it. The story was fantastic and it was a really fun game, the map editor is also brilliant. Unfortunatly the online isnt great and when you get past 60% in the game it tends to become glitch mania.

if it's anything like guitar freaks it can fuck off.

I'm just playing Gears of War for the first time and I'm up to the bit where u get the Hammer of Dawn but for some reason the bridge wont drop down after i take out the Locust seeder, I've heard there may be a glitch in the game is this true ???

And if so how do i go about it

Sorry in advance if this is old news but it's new to me, Ghostbusters has apparently been confirmed as region free which means we wont have to wait until November after all

Ghostbusters region free

Am I the only person who fucking detests that Guitar Hero/Rock band bullshit? it's a dance mat for blokes. All it does is remind me of that San Andreas mission that took me years to complete. Fucking bollocks.

Do you mean that really easy mission from San Andreas, where you just have to press buttons in response to what flashes up on screen?

I can never understand why people had difficulty with that mission. The tune did get annoying after a while though....

I think the people who had trouble were those who aren't blessed with a sense of rhythm. I found that mission piss easy too.

More men play DDR than women BTW.

Is that the one in the lowriders?

the one at the beach where you have to nick a chicks van with all the sound gear for O.G. Loc.

Dude, I thought you MC'd? You should have enough rhythm to tap some buttons at the right time! Were you playing with the sound turned down or what?

Ditto. Both the lowrider and beach missions were a piece of piss.

Anyone getting Prototype tomorrow?

fuck that shit, ghostbusters is where its at

which i'm currently playing just now

In a "just got money in the bank so I have to spend some of it" moment I bought Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts for £10. I didn't really enjoy the demo but seeing as it was made by Rare and i'd not really gave it my full attention I thought for £10 it had to be worth it. I started and I wasn't that keen, I still don't get how to use the cars i've made unless I have the option to in one of the Jiggie missions. I'm about 4 or 5 missions in though and i'm starting to warm to it. Certainly not in the same league as the last two Banjo games but for a tenner it's entertaining.

EDIT - Ignore just realised XBL is down at the minute

I think it's down all day. Been shite for the last few days for people on Sky broadband too.

It's scheduled maintenance, my XBL account had a system message in the inbox warning me about it.

Looking forward to getting Fight Night Round 4 when it's out.

Just finnished Resident Evil 5, pretty epic.

Fucking Xbox Live. Because it's down, I can't log in; and because I can't log in, my 360 won't play back .avis which means I can't watch the next episode of The Wire.

Why they can't save the codecs to the user profile on the box is beyond me.

I'd be happy if it'd play .avis in the first place.

Still no joy?

What specifically are you trying to watch?

Various lengths and sizes of files, there's no rhyme or reason to it not wanting to play.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Damn you

The ultimate in turning it off and on again is surely having a new console altogether, which I have. I'm just some unlucky fucker who got the random .avi problem on two different machines.

Can you not convert the avis to something the 360 WILL play?

I guess I could, but the whole reason this annoys me is that I like the ease of burning a quick data disc with a bunch of files on rather than slowly burning a DVD for each.

Are there not other formats where it will still read it as a data disk? But yeah, I guess converting either way takes time. Unfortunate.

have you tried playing the avi files from a data stick rather than a data dvd?

I play mine from a data stick

have you tried deleting the avi update, and re installing it?

As I said earlier, it's completely random and nothing fixes it. It brings up an error code that if you google it, you get a bunch of results from people who've had it happen and who came to exactly the same conclusion.

Seriously, as I said before, I don't need to be logged in. I don't know why you have to be on yours, but on mine I don't have to.

My flatmate was at home yesterday trying to watch Heores and rang me with the same problem... He is a dribbling retard though, so maybe it was just him.

I was busy working though, so I didn't help him with his problem. I don't feel bad though; someone has to pay for his carers, otherwise he'd just be sat around in his own faeces when I got home.

I never used to have to be logged in but now I do. I'm not sure if it's anything to do with the dashboard update but it's bloody annoying.

I know I never had to be signed in before because my Xbox wasn't even connected to the internet so why it has to be now is really very annoying.