Seanster

The Vob2Mpg section of the guide is really unneccesary, as like James said, you can just rename the VOB file to MPG. But actually even that isn't needed, since if you have your movie in a single VOB on the MCE, the X360 decodes it as MPG, so there's no need to convert and lose quality or even rename the file.

This is exactly what happened to me, as Im sure it has happened to many others. 3 red lights and its dead. I followed the exact instructions of microsoft on their website, unplugging the hdd, turning on the console w/o the hdd, with hdd, replugging all the cords, whatnot. I must have tried this at least 50 times, booting it and rebooting it constantly. My entire family had developed a dependency on the xbox 360 within the 4 days that we had it working, and then it died. Since im the only one who knows anything about technology, my family being somewhat luddite unless its easy to use, I had to get on top of this. So called the help hotline, was on hold for maybe 30 secs. Maybe. I was pretty impressed. As soon as someone answers, I can hear what soudns like an entire building full of people answering telephone calls and talking. I asked him if that was all for the xbox 360, and if the 3 red lights = hardware failure was pretty common. He just laughed and told me that they got calls all the time, seeming somewhat contradictory to what Microsoft has said about the failures being a "fraction of a fraction" of all xbox 360s. But i have a feeling that he was more trustworthy than MS, since MS has every reason to lie (sales and continued hype) while this guy had no reason to lie. After getting all my info, he put me on hold for a sec, during which my phone unfortanetly dropped the call, which it does periodically. So I called back, and apparently got a different warehouse somewhere else or there was better soundproofing, b/c this guy's background was completely silent, and this time he told me that the failing 360s were actually very small. Sounds like complete bullshit to me, he sounded like he was just regurgitating what Microsofts official line. Anyway, got the box next day, sent it on saturday, got it back today (wednesday). Im pretty impressed with the speed on this, and since I havent actually hooked it up to my tv and seen if its functional, Im a tad frightened by puh_fifer's story. But the other two success stories give me hope.